Energy from the Ground - Self powered generator by Barbosa and Leal

[Pirate88179]

@a.king21, I agree I cannot understand these idiots they have no Idea how upsetting this can be. I rarely post for this reason. Remember the donut when people were slicing and welding parts together and having difficulty finding parts, the unit next to me makes these parts and spin up the two halves all day long. Within an hour I had the parts to wind and construct a donut , when I posted the fact all hell let loose and I was called a liar, trolls said it would take days to order, let alone slicing one in half. (mine were made in 2 parts already). It is difficult to know what to do about it, I am playing with clarence circuit and I am getting promising results I did however forget to turn off unit in correct order and back fed my inverter which just went up in flames . Just took delivery of 5k sinewave new one so will start again this weekend. PS. I am not using mainspower at all to experiment

Regards
Keith

Ah ha, another heater burns up.  Tinman is correct.

Bill

[Farmhand]

Usually two separated grounds will have a potential difference between them, so If you try to measure the resistance between the two rods in that case, the reading will be different depending on which way the meter is connected. Therefore other ways need to be used. The way Tinman describes sounds like it would work to me.

I've been meaning for a while to determine the resistance between two ground rods I have, one is a zinc coated steel picket 6 feet deep and the other is a copper jacketed ground stake "regulation house ground type". They are about 8 meters apart. I haven't measured the voltage between them or scoped anything as yet.

Could be interesting to look at depending on what is running and somehow connected to ground elsewhere. I'm actually expecting a fairly high resistance because the ground is rocky (granite), but it is moist in the area so I might be lucky.

I could not dig a hole here with the hand held digger Clarence appeared to be using.  I have to dig down about 2 to 3 feet to get through the rocks. But down deep is mostly soil. Seems like. Even with the tractor Auger I had to try a second place to avoid a huge rock, I can drill through the soft granite but the hard granite can be very hard and it splits then tries to push the pieces apart, we levelled a section for the house yard and removed some Rocks over 1 meter in diameter. But you get that on a ridge on a mountain top I guess.

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[tinman]

Usually two separated grounds will have a potential difference between them, so If you try to measure the resistance between the two rods in that case, the reading will be different depending on which way the meter is connected. Therefore other ways need to be used. The way Tinman describes sounds like it would work to me.

I've been meaning for a while to determine the resistance between two ground rods I have, one is a zinc coated steel picket 6 feet deep and the other is a copper jacketed ground stake "regulation house ground type". They are about 8 meters apart. I haven't measured the voltage between them or scoped anything as yet.

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1 zink and one copper-->you have a galvanic cell. The wetter your soil between the two,the more current you will get across a load between the two stakes. The voltage should be around 1.2 volt's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_cell

[Farmhand]

Yeah sure is, I've made some small ones with various materials and results. But truth is the ground rods will also pick up noise from the ground I should be able to see the signal from the electric fence pulsing clearly ect. I have other experiments in mind that 1.2 volts won't make much difference to. 

Depends how much actual resistance is between the rods if too much it won't be much good.

I'll stay off this thread now.

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[tinman]

Ah ha, another heater burns up.  Tinman is correct.

Bill

It's a good transformer that captor loop transformer . Well as long as these guys keep having fun burning up there equipment,then all is well and good.
So far we have had two replications.
1st-experimentor here posting questions as to why his transformer wires keep melting.
2nd-experimentor here saying it works a treat,but i fried my inverter,so need to spend a few hundred on a new one.

$10.00 to the first person to take a picture of the whole unit on fire-->it's coming-->if they dont electrocute them self first.