Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[Pirate88179]

Jeanna:

It was 0WildBill0.  I think one of those videos has now 26,000 views.  That is why I left it there.  Once I got my digital HD (49.00) cam, I figured it would be easier for continuity to use the same name as here.

Bill

[protonmom]

Bill, I also would love to make a huge one the size of a 5 gallon pail or so.  Sure would take a lot of wire, time, money, and patience, not to mention sore hands.  I have no wire winding jig, and not sure I could make one.  I just might try to build a large coil very soon.  Will have to start gathering the materials.
On this last coil, I used interfacing to cover the fe wire, even though it says to leave that wire bare.  The interfacing is so thin, and I don't think it will affect it adversely.  It sure made it easier to wind and to make the rows pretty much the same size seeing as how the cotton cover for the cu makes that wire so large.

Jeanna, I didn't know Bill used another name other than the Pirate one.  I just did a quick look in the beginning of this forum for Bill's coil, but have not located it yet.  If there are notes on construction that would be great.

The alumiweld is done with a hand held torch, by the way.

[jeanna]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9ZKDKDclY&feature=channel

Bills other videos.

I am confused about the construction you are talking about.
Did you get a copy of the Stubblefield Patent?
It is what we all used for making ours. Since yours looks so much like the patent, I assumed you had a copy and were using that. I read the patent every day. Each time I read it I got a better idea of what it was about.

I do not believe anybody made a "how to" for any body else. We were all stumbling along together so there was no opportunity to do that.
I think you will make great coils.

About the secondary.
I made 6 coils with secondaries.
The two best ones have the secondary touching the other coils... not through a wooden spool.
I don't mean shorting touching.
The 2 worst ones the secondaries are made on a plastic (thin)  spool of some kind.
I don't know what it means, perhaps nothing.

But you do need to have more turns on the secondary or you will never get any good results.
You need 3 times as many turns as on the combined number of the primary.
I used to make 30+30 on each row for 6 rows. That is 360 Turns. 
I really needed to make about 1,000 turns for my secondary. egads.
I never got close to that.
Nor did anybody else.

I made a non galvanic one with plastic tele wire for the copper part. It has the same 360 turns, but an off the shelf  spool of red magnet wire from Radio Shack, gave me  some good results.

BUT, and this is REALLY important.
I do not see much of anything unless I use the scope.
All those beautiful waves etc are in the millivolts. That is 0.068v on a dmm, if it can see them at all.
It is when you see them on the scope, that you start to get different thoughts. But, I digress.

I had forgotten the sore fingers. You just reminded me!

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

protonmom:

Thanks for the torch info.  Just to be clear, I have always used Pirate88179 here on OU.com. It was Youtube back in the early days that I used the 0WildBill0 name.

Bill

[protonmom]

Jeanna,
>>I am confused about the construction you are talking about.
Did you get a copy of the Stubblefield Patent?
<<
Sorry about that.  Sometimes my words come out without my brain functioning.  I know what I am talking about but when I go to write it out it comes out bass-ackwards.  Yes, I do have the patent and construction.  And also I see now that Bill said he had used the vinegar.  Slow brain, again.  When I go to post a reply it is hard to remember exactly what was in the post I was wanting to reply to.  What I meant was it would be nice to have a picture in my head as to just where the EB was located, in relation to his probes, etc....but it really doesn't matter now as he said that was the vinegar coil.
(even now I am trying to recall your post and I cannot.  Wish we could see the posts - more than just the last one - so that we could respond in accord.  I will have to post this, and then I will probably see something else I wanted to reply to...oh well.)  I will just edit.
EDIT:  How can you tell if a wire is designated as mag wire?  Doesn't that just mean it is attracted to a magnet?  It is copper so it is...Oh heck!  I just got up and checked it with a magnet.  I cannot believe it...it is NOT attracted to the magnet at all!  What in the world?  I thought all copper would be magnetic.  Boy oh boy...talk about learning something new every day.  Sheesh.....