Maybe some NEW info?

[sm0ky2]

Hi,
My name is Sm0ky2.


This is my very first experiment with electricity.
In 10 yrs of engineering college i have learned nothing.


Please tell me whats going on here

[sm0ky2]

Please share your experience using 'bucking' (reverse) diodes.




This was not in the manual.

[onepower]

Smoky2
I am also an Engineer with over 30 years experience and 20 years in I began to realize I knew little about energy or what electricity is. In the amasci link I sent you the author Bill Beaty is an EE with more experience than both of us. In this respect I think we both understand an education helps but it is not the be all end all by any means.

After reading Bill Beaty's site years ago I realized like most people I had most things wrong. So I built a van de graaff generator, whimshust generator, tesla coils and did countless experiments over the last decade. So when I say I have been down this road and done the experiments I mean it literally.

The biggest mistake most make is not allowing for environmental influences. For example, take a spray bottle and mist the area raising the local relative humidity. Most electrostatic effects will disappear which is the reason many devices work then not. Sometimes it can be something that simple but we would never know unless we did real experiments.

With respect to bucking reverse diodes I think you mean back to back rectifiers. It's a discriminator circuit element acting as a reverse break down threshold detector. The action is similar to a zener diode which acts in both directions. When using higher voltages above 20kV it's important to rub down all components with rubbing alcohol to remove the oils deposited from our hands otherwise leakage is an issue. Many inventors used this setup to replace a spark gap however it does not exhibit negative resistance or avalanche breakdown like a SG. In this respect it acts more like a low voltage filter/ discriminator the inverse of a clipper circuit. There is much more to it but these are the basics.

As well diodes don't last long and tend to degrade or explode at higher voltage/current levels. Many used mercury rectifiers in the past or a quenched SG with a chopper disk to minimize preionization/Corona effects. I have yet to find a solid state setup that can handle anything close to 10kV reliably.

Regards
AC

[sm0ky2]

So far i have been able to perform Nigel's voltage multiplication
(experiment #1 is successful, performs as the inventor stated)


However, the EB diode adder seems to be doing nothing at times,
at others it will dump the earth and start moving potential back in the
other direction.
current reading goes negative with respect to voltage during transition



I pulled all the doides out, and im left with just a regular EB
0.5v @ 80 uA
Polarity has been stable for at least 8 hrs.
No reverse current

My guess is (due to the bucking diodes) charge is led out of the earth
depleting localized zones which then bleed back in from surrounding earth
which can cause one side to take on a higher potential
I'm not able to achieve anything useful from any of the various configurations
i have tried. Pretty sure i learned more about the earth around me than i did
about Nigel's Telluric Rectifier. (Sm0ky failed experiment #2)


Next up is the temporal electron accelerator
I have both parts almost complete


After that i will start on his magnetic experiments

[tsl]

Hello there,
Can anyone point me to some more info on this guy's tech pls?