Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

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@ Steve
You have done us all proud man, take a bou.
All those nice photos, wish I had been there with you.

The photos with the blue horse shoes, they look like something we used in the telephone wind the handle days here in Aussie, in the 1960s. We had them in the wall hanging phones and the old Bakelite ones as well. (got one on my kitchen floor to stubb my toes lol)

There is a photo that looks like a old morse keyer, I think it is a sounder.

Loved the rolls of wire, at least there is something physical of Stubblefields experimenting days.

Well done Steve 

jim

[canada765]

@ Jim,

Thanks, I wish I had looked in the trunk - I feel dumb about that, geeze. I'll see what I can find out about it in the meantime and if it's worth a trip back to look I'll see what I can do.

Rgs
Steve

[electricme]

@ steve,
did you get my PM
jim

[canada765]

Hi Jim, no I did not get anything from you.

Rgs,
-- Steve

[Thnder]

Thnder

You may be right  ........ you may have  nail  out of place or a broken wire .

The  fact that you got  normal  voltage  for a while after burying the cells  does seem to  imply  that they  are not shorting out .

There still is  one   possible  explanation  of  all this  having to do with shorting out .
If  I was  to burry  some cells  and  wanted to make sure that I didn't damage them .  I would not  pack the dirt down on top of them .
Loose  dirt would be a pretty good insulator .  With  time and  rain   the dirt would settle  and  become a better conductor .   In this  case  the  shorting out might take  weeks or months  to reach its full potential

What ever  the cause  of the  power loss I am sure you  will  figure it out  .




I do  agree  that there is something  else   out there that the  cells can  sometimes pick up . 
For me  that something else is  what makes  them interesting .


gary

Gary just an update, I went out and played with my pipes and nails. It would seem I did have a few loose connections; however it would also seem that there is indeed leakage. I have noted a steady decline in voltage.  I do not have exact measurements but I watched my 3 rows of six in parallel drop from around 2.5 volts to 1.8 the last couple days, always lower if they are wet to.
It would seem the exterior of the pipes have to be insulated in some manner. I went out and played with each pipe individually, reset a few nails, redid a few wires then set them back in the ground once satisfied. I then tested my results and observed I had achieved nothing significant, my voltage I had gained from ?fixing them? was gone. They steadily declined back to the previous low level. At this point pulled the row out and laid them on the ground with my leads still attached and watched the voltage rise. Further I placed some pieces of cloth (bed Sheets cut up) under them and watched the voltage rise more. I concluded that the exteriors should be insulated. I had some plastic, sticky on one side and wrapped them then reset them and joined them back up to the rest. I had a gain of voltage that seemed steady for the one row. Not as high when it was out of the ground the row I am sure needs to be moved and the rest of my pipes insulated.
This brings me to a patent I read sometime after our conversation and what clued me in with the help of your post. Now I understand what you and the patent was getting at

No 329,724 GF Dieckmann he states that the couples (I assume pos and neg) must be placed close together in a line while the rest in the circuit  in the same line should be farther apart. Thus the Six feet spacing you referenced somewhere else. In this case 6 feet between cells of one positive and one negative.

So I guess what it boils down to is insulating the outside or spacing them far apart increases the resistance of one cell to the other cells thus allowing a more effective series or parallel circuit. People with small land to play with would have to use the exterior insulation to increase a cells resistance to others. Probably a good bet to tape or paint the outside and use your wick idea for the top if they bury them completely as I do. I had not noticed this when conducting my prior experiments this may have occurred exactly as it did this last time however this last time I was looking for it

For the Stubblefield coil experiment I think my observations here seem to imply the exterior cloth insulation is a good idea if you plan to use them in series or parallel or even individually. Who knows how they would react to grounding rods outside the house.

Thanks again gary, had you not suggested the leakage I probably would have given up and called it quits.