Hi G
The 2 are related, the Valve power ON tug appears a mechanical tug i have seen this myself.
I think the whole idea of the valve rectifier is to allow us to find the frequencies needed to create them, he says that all sorts of hash and noise will be seen and occasionally they will meet and produce one large kick, we know he used expensive equipment to study this, from some of my previous experiments i have been able to hear and feel the mechanical tug which has been the result of what i believe to be mixing of certain harmonics creating a large tug.
I have tried to establish how to isolate whatever the circumstances are to create this tug/kick/em energy burst.
You see when i used 2 white noise generators i would occasionally produce one big kick they were not necessarily that frequent in some cases, but every now and then the conditions were right and it is these conditions that when we know what they are will enable us to produce the large kicks not only when we want but also as many and as frequent as we require.
He also went on to ponder the magnetic field from a nuclear explosion, this all points to the valve tug,combined small kicks meeting to produce one large kick, as being pulses of EM and my view is that EMP is radiant in nature, from EM rules on PCB ground planes, you have a copper plate that allows EM to dissipate across the ground planes surface and therefore the ground plane must attain a charge from the dispersion of the em in the smaller tracks, the fact the ground plane receives and disperses em noise due to capacitive coupling, sounds very similar to the metallic shields used by Tesla as he walked around the room to detect the blast of radiant energy, and the metallic shields acquired a charge.
We can all produce EM noise but there's more to creating the correct conditions to get a strong tug.
If EM noise is required to create a tug then why does the valve filament tug at power up, i believe the reason for this is at power up you have had to switch current on, it is the switch that momentarily causes the conditions for the tug, this can be proven by constantly switching the valve on and off, i bet every now and then the valve filament will tug even though the filament is still hot,same goes for Tesla's power lines again it's the switch on that causes the deaths, keep switching on and off fast, i bet more deaths would occur not just switch ON from cold.Think of the harmonics that are produced in an arc, as SM stated most engineers placed caps across the relevant points to stop the switching noise, i even understand Tesla introduced similar devices across the HV DC power lines to suppress the switching noise and stop the deaths and arcing over, which is quiet interesting because i also believe that with Tesla's power lines there was more power once the switching transients had dispersed down the length of the power lines than there was at the switch creation point.
I am guessing that the current down the entire length of wire is the same but the voltage climbs due to capacity of the sourounding air hence the blinding killer arcs which were obviously much higher in voltage than at the switch on point, in rush current would be the same down the entire length would it not? with asymmetric capacitors ION movement gets the blame for the small extra thrust produced so i will also blame ION dispersion results in increased power production