Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[jeanna]

Lee,
I am so glad to hear you will be able to join in with the datalogging!!
Please remember to report that part to the datalogging thread. It makes it easier when it is all together.

DonL,

interesting about the very slow frequency. I will look for it more

@Kukulcangod,

I know it is a long read, but the joule thief thread is all about exactly that.
Maybe if you were to watch my videos and see what I am doing with just the pulses from the secondary of a joule thief, that would help some.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4IMgDRGpHE

That is the first of 5 related to this.

I hope it helps some, but there is really no substitute for reading the whole thing.
sorry, but that is because there is so much that relates to the use of the pulses and the use of a secondary.

t3t4

I am having a terrible time reading this thread because the picture you posted is so enormous,
that I must scroll left and right to read the words because stephan un-did something that used to prevent this.

So, from memory,
I did exactly what you did when I got my scope. I was not getting 5Mhz from me, that is from the earth. I watched with fascination at my own frequency and waves. just the probe.
I did not know for weeks what the ground clip was for.

I may not be able to see a scope window that shows the high MHz frequency up close,
but it is easily seen when viewing the whole wave from a lower frequency.
What I have never seen is a wave at 6-8Hz.
I will look again.
I have a capacitor outside collecting from the geodesic dome frame plus the NStubblefield battery.
It is collecting 1mv per 2 hours and overnight went from 65mv to 74mv. Pretty slow. Pretty low.
I believe the 20 foot dome frame should work.
What it did, is it made the volts show less and the amps show more on the dmm.
The peaks on the scope might have gotten a little higher too.
I won't say that for sure for a while, but maybe.

I am not interested in collecting the naturally occurring AC from all around and rectifying it and storing it to later be inverted.

Thank you for your drawing.
I can try it once again.

I just suspect that the reason I don't get the volts is because I do not have the bleed that you and others have.
If the power grid were to go down for 3 weeks in the winter, would you be without any lighting?

I would not be.

@protonmom,
I would buy the HPS40 since the sample rate is 40MHz.
I did not realize that when I bought mine.
It has other advantages for a person running MS op sys. it can be used and viewed through the computer.

It is more expensive, and yesterday I learned why.
So, it is very portable and priced really well, but instead of 189 for the HPS10, I would say spend 250 or whatever for the HPS40.

Or look at what iotayodi is recommending. I just stopped at the end of the pocketbook so, I really do not know.

jeanna

[jeanna]

The 50 hz would also give you an edge if doing higher frequency's for other projects.

Is this going to give you the proper frequency read-out?
I thought the internal working formulas of the scope would be based on 50 hz.
So when you are feeding it 60hz, and it thinks it is getting 50, it would give the wrong numbers?
Like having a dying battery on a DMM, you see higher voltage readings on the screen because there is some kind of internal comparison formula??

jeanna

[IotaYodi]

Is this going to give you the proper frequency read-out?

Thats a typo. It should read 50 Mhz. I fixed it.

[kukulcangod]

I was getting those readings I just added a second video I recorded 2 days later and I remember now getting more than 200 maH , my time was limited due to traveling schedules , so I got what I could ,it is basically the same but I need to add that I know that the wall hook was isolated from the wall and that the support wire from the tower more surely not, anyway , can you help me out with a diagram to try to get some usefull energy out of this set up? thanks for the suggestion about a coil? to get a spark ? not quite sure about how to set it all up, Thanks

the video is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjEXS8BC8iU

[the_big_m_in_ok]

jeanna said:

Lee,
I am so glad to hear you will be able to join in with the datalogging!!

@jeanna
You betcha.  I went out this morning and scouted two sites with hilltops(one very high---the locally famous Strawberry Hill, 500-600 ft high.  Also, another smaller one further away on the same bus line.  I'll string 200-400 ft of magnet wire in a line up the hill and measure from there.  Privacy is key.  Homeland Security and the cops are always suspicious of everything nowadays.

Please remember to report that part to the datalogging thread. It makes it easier when it is all together.

Okay.  I'll do it on a foggy day and a clear day(less humidity).  This could be important.  In the desert winter where I used to live; Tucson, AZ, static electricity from very dry, cool air in the Wal-Mart shocked me and others

Just walking down the aisle pushing an aluminum & steel shopping cart.  Really!  That stings.        Just be more careful pushing the cart.   

Just a heads-up for everyone:  Dry air usually means more electricity from an aerial system.

--Lee