Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[Artic_Knight]

im not sure about plain magnesium but from what i read its a common alloy for automotive aluminum. 

[jeanna]

You still missed what i said  as well in my post.   you can take 3 peices of copper and 3 peices of zinc and hook like metals together think parallel buss on a battery bank       so the load is only powered by one set of leads from the outer or inner most peices of copper and zinc.. well  in my case. 

Hi localjoe,

First I want to say I appreciate how you are running this thread. Firm and polite.

now, I just bought a pipe cutter. I plan to cut my 24" pipe into 3, 8" pieces and solder them together as you recommend. I will also solder the zincs together . I am planning to use copper wire for the connecting wire and tin antimony solder (plumbing solder instead of electronic solder) to make the connections. I am seeing a lot of different metals here and I am not sure, but I will do it,  I will do it as much like your drawing as I can.

Then I will report.

Checking for AC or pulsed DC is really easy, you don't need any sophisticated instruments.

Simply feed your input into say an audio transformer, you know the miniature things you can buy at electronic stores for a couple of bucks. If you get any electricity at all on the secondary you have the proof.

Hans, I need some help with this one. Please explain what the input would be and how I put this audio transformer into my (or Bills, for that matter,) circuit.

And how does the proof work? What would the AC look like and what would the DC look like?
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I just mail-ordered some parts and I will make a copy of Bills circuit with my metals, then after I  get his materials together, I will use his cricuit using the same materials. These both seem very promissing.

As wet and windy as it can be here in the Northwest the ground is rarely frozen and I can continue to hammer pipes into the ground for a while now!

jeanna

[hansvonlieven]

It's simple jeanna,

In order to generate a current in the secondary the primary needs to be fed with pulsed DC or AC. If you feed DC into the primary nothing happens in the secondary.

Look up how transformers work, its all in there.

Hans von Lieven

[Pirate88179]

@ Hans:

That's a brilliant idea!!!  If ANY voltage shows up on the secondary it must be pulsed!!!  I have not seen the cheap audio transformers around.  I am sure radio shack has them but, at least at this store, if you don't know exactly what you are looking for, they are not much help.  What or how is the audio transformer used?  What I mean to ask is....is this device used for hi-fi equipment? Or some other application?  If I can identify one I will try it.  Excellent!!!

@ Joe:

Here is the problem with what you propose.  I tried two "positive" metals and two "negetive" metals and guess what?  It makes a subcell between the two dissimilar metals and then shorts.  I tried this a while back when first trying to up the volts using series.  I did not have two exact metals for + and -.  Now, what I think will work is your idea to tie say 3 positive metals of the same type and then have 3 negetive metals of the same type and tie them to a load.  This may not up the volts but should be seen by the earth as a much larger single north and south and therefore maybe up the amps, or milliamps.  I will try this.  If my explanation does not make any sense, let me know and I will try to explain it better. It's like if I use carbon and copper for the plus side, the carbon becomes plus and the copper becomes minus.  Thereby creating a subcell situation.  But hey, my leds came today so I have something new to play with.  I will try your idea of tying an "array" of + and - together to see what happens.

@ Jeanna:

I was playing around with my larger capacitor this afternoon (inside) and it performs like you said it should.  I charged it with a D cell for a few moments and, it lit an led but only for a second and very bright.  It seems it dumped the volts out all at once.  What type of cap is my small one that does not do that?  I would like to get the same type only larger.  I don't see anything in the specs on them that would tell how fast it discharges.  Also, would putting a resistor of the proper value in line slow down this voltage dumping?  Back to my electronics books to see if I can figure this out.  If you or anyone can tell me, I would appreciate it. And yes Jeanna, that guy giving everyone a hard time was banned by Stefan for raising hell on Dr. Stiffler's thread.  It was a shame as he appeared to be an intelligent fellow. (Not a shame he was banned, a shame he could not contribute in a positive manner) Joe evidently knows a lot about computer systems so if anyone else steps out of line, he might just make them disappear into the world of ones and zeros.

I will check out Hans's idea (which is way better than waiting for an ocilloscope to show up at my door) and experiment with a few other things as well.  By the way, if there is voltage in the secondary on the audio transformer it should be higher than input right? (if it is pulsed)  So, we could still use this device to boost our volts. (probably cuts the milliamps though per Ohm's law)

Bill

[Localjoe]

@Bill
      Yea your dead on i said trying that config earlier in the post like the pic shows the idea i had for you was just an idea to see if it worked so thanks for trying even tho it didnt work.  Theres snow everywhere here..... The config with the three metals of the same on either side worked and showed mixed results none worse but higher voltage in some cases for me.
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