Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[electricme]

@all

My coil crashed,  it developed a short deep in it's insides, found the problem 5 layers down .

A short developed directly around where I had made two copper wires join together, so now I need to repair this and wind it all back together.
I will try heat shrink and see if that will work OK.

Motto to be learnt, only use a single unbroken length of wire if it is at all possible, thats both wires, copper and Iron.

There is copper and iron wire and cotton string all over my floor right now lol.

jim

[nievesoliveras]

@electricme

You also can use sand paper and sand with it the corners of the wires before soldering them after inserting the shrink tube.

What I mean is to make perfectly round the wires end. It will not have the cutting corners.

Another thing is to round the sharp edges of the solder too.

Jesus

[MW383]

Jim, Sorry to hear about the short. We have all been there at one point or another. Glad you found it and are making repairs. When it ran, your voltage was close to theoretical 0.78V so this is good. Alloys in the materials will drag the number down a bit, so .71V is good in my opinion.

I'm still waiting for my separator paper. Maybe this week. I have also convinced myself to have some iron wire covered in the fiberglass. This will add a week to my materials gathering process but I can live with that.

I'll be hitting my spreadsheet again and maybe retune overall coil geometry to allow more layers. I'll try staying with (core dia / total coil dia) ratio of .3 if I can. Core length will be shortened thus winding length also shortened; I'll keep at 0.8 ratio.

Good luck with your rebuild!

[shylo]

To Jim and anyone else interested...sorry I don't know how to draw on puter,..so I'll describe best I can ....I found so far the best results are...I stripped an extension cord ,that said 15awg on the plastic coating...ended up with stranded wire ,uninsulated I assume...cut a 3 inch length....cover 1&1/2 inches with cotton ,..I use old t-shirt,...cover the cotton with aluminum foil....so I have 3" of stranded wire covered ~1/2 -2/3 with cotton ,that wrapped with foil...leaving cotton sticking out both ends~1/16...make sure foil dosen"t touch copper ...also cotton is dampened with salt water not drenched...voltage reads .62 put six of these in series will light an led no problem four will light it, but dimmely.....just seems to be alot less material required .....still more experiments yet.....shylo

[Magluvin]

Hey All

A question. With which ever conducting materials tried, using dry cotton, has there been any long term testing, where the battery has be disassembled to check for any issues with the surfaces of the conductors, as in discoloration, signs of corrosion, as in what might happen in a normal battery.
Also, has anyone tried this in a vacuum? As in, is it the air that acts as the electrolyte for sure?  Or how about under high pressure? Different gasses? Fiberglass instead of cotton?  Hey, carbon fiber as an electrode!

Just thoughts

Mags