Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[IotaYodi]

MW383 do You know the type of nylon? Heres the most common with their saturation levels. Nylon 6/12 absorbs half the moisture of nylon 6.


6    2.7    
6/6    2.5    
6/10    1.5    
6/12    1.3    

[MW383]

Iota...I incorrectly described the material. It is fiberglass, not nylon. I apologize for the mistake.

In brief testing, it was found to pass water through it well and hold water well. In fact it acts just like the cotton covered wire I have tried.

The fiberglass should not really degrade when next to oxidized iron wire. My former coil constructions using cotton materials really looked crappy after a bit. Hopefully the new coil I make does not have issues. I'm certain that when this coil has large current running through it, that iron oxidation would be nil, as reported in various NS documentation. But in the mean time, I am just hoping for a coil that doesn't short itself out or bleed current between copper and iron.

[electricme]

@ IotaYodi

I know the pain of stripping insulation off copper wire, I had a few hundred meters to do here so I made this tool up to help me.

All the braided wire ive worked with has been tough. Ive had to use a razor knife to strip some as wire strippers didnt work.

I had a bit of wood laying around , that was about 12 inches long, drilled a hole in the side a fraction larger than the insulated wire I wanted to strip the copper out of.

Then I got a small nail, filed the sharp end to a raser point, then drove it down into the top edge of the wood so the nail point just appeared, you don't need to be seen poking through, you need to adjust the point so it just cuts pierces through the insulation.
If it touches the copper wires then it is too far in, pull some of the nail out.



First off I stripped the outside grey/white covering, then fed the insulated wire into the hole in the side of the wood until it appeared out the other side, put that end in my vice and just held the wooden ends in each hand and walked away from the vice pull the wire through the hole.

The sharp nail did the sest for me, I can strip 30 meters of covered copper wire in 30 seconds.
I then go back to the vice and peal away the insulation where it has been scored. Easy.

jim

3432 = My jig to strip insulation off the copper wires
3430 = The setup I use to monitor for shorted turns while I wind my stubblefield coils
If a short occure, the LIGHT BULB glows, and a BUZZER sounds, the switches turn off a the buzzer or the light. The copper and Iron coils being wound become the defacto switch.

 

[FrozenWaterLab]

Here is the insulated copper wire I had manufactured. Copper = solid 16ga + bare. Insulation = wound nylon. Is water permeable.

On the left is how it looks when stripped. You can see weave pattern used.

I will be very interested in how the nylon works as compaired to cotton.
I have had thoughts that some new type material might be better as I think,
the cotton would rot in the ground in a couple years. that might be why NS said to make it so it can come apart for reworking.

By the way that weave pattern looks to be a good if not better than, a wound pattern.
Who did it for you and what was the cost. (If you don't mind me asking)
Contact details Please.
FrznWtr

[electricme]

MW383
That photo of the fiberglass covered copper wire is a beauty, I like the idea that fibreglass holds water like the cotton does, what is particually interresting to me is the cotton will disintergrate long before the fiberglass would, this would enable the coil to out live cotton wound coils.

I know that any with any original Stubblefield Coil, the cotton will fall apart if the turns were disturbed in any way, I found this hapenning when I pulled apart my old coil (not a stubblefield coil) about 6 months ago.

Thanks for shareing the cost of the wire you had made, I have a question, if you look directly down on top of the crossectional view of the wovwn wire, can you see an air gap between the bare copper and the inside of the woven fiberglass?

Now I have to go outside and unwind by hand 7 strands (25 meters long) of 0.90 bare copper wire and wind them onto a spool that should take a couple of hours..

jim