Kevin, have you verified that Aarons magnet config was not right? Because I tested the superpole setup like in Aarons picture and did not get improved results. Yesterday I spent all night soldering the 6 transistor circuit for my SSG. I will use two trifilar coils. One strand of one coil will be used for triggering and the other five left strands will be used as power coils. I have still one transistor left unused, I think I will also use my recovery coil as a power coil so I will be using all the transistors. Just got the setup up and running. Will see if I get improved results. Later I will add the ground wire with the diode.
One more question for Kevin, can you tell me more about that ground testing you did? Did you simply put both leads of the voltmeter in the ground near each other and did get those voltages? Because by doing so I am not getting anything, maybe 0.01 - 0.02V.
Thanks