Joule Thief

[maw2432]

Hello maw2432,

To answer your question, Yes and No, because I have done 2 unusual things.

First, the successful series cells I posted yesterday is not mt my first successful attempt, but rather it is the second one.

About a week ago I got 2 aluminium pipes about 7 inches long and 1 inch wide and drove them in the ground. I measured for the voltage across them and it was about .6 as I recall as I did not write it dowm.

I removed the pipes, then wrapped insulation tape in the method I showed.
I then put them back in the ground, being careful not to damage the tape.
I did not measure between the pipes at this stage.

Next I got 2 seperate 1/2 inch copper pipes
I put dirt into the aluminium pipes
I the 2 seperate copper pipes inside each of the aluminium pipes.

I then measured each cell, they were very close to .75 volts DC

I then connected them in series and got 1.4volts

Now, this I had never been able to accumplish before.

BUT, in a Aluminium outer cell setup with a Copper inner electrode, the voltage is  this,,,, Aluminium is the Negative   and Copper is the POSITIVE

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If you take a Copper Pipe and a ZINC nail to make a cell, the
POSITAVE is the COPPER pipe and the Negative is the ZINC electrode.

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The POS and NEG switch around, being on the inner or the outer electrode depending on which material you select as your EER setup.

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Now, one thing I did not realise until late last night, I had not lined my 2 EER setups up to North or South.

They are East to West alignment, now, this was a mistake on my part, but, BOTH different EER setups STILL WORK, my next setup I will put in a North to South configuration, then I willl see what occurs.
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So to answer your question, Yes, the insulation is the key to making a series EER setup.

I will get the web address and post it here in a few minutes for those who come accross this site can duck over the the EE Battery site.

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Here's the link  http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=7769.260

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Thanks Bill M


jim

Jim,  thank you for your detailed reply.

I found some 3 inch zinc machine screws with nuts included for under 2 dollars.    I think the zinc screws will be easer to attach wires to (without clips) using the nuts.  Plus there should be a greater surface area with the screw vs. a nail.   I hope this makes a positive difference.  My copper pipes are 6 inches long.   Cool thing is that I do not have to now remove the darn sticker lables since I need to insulate the outside.  Please tell me about the bottom of the pipe... do you insulate it totally by covering the bottom? 

I hope to do testing tomorrow.

Bill

[innovation_station]

My power supply is bleading...it's AC voltage making the light turn on!!!  When I  move the - input to the JT to the output side it still works...ohhh well I think there is more to this anyway. 



good night all

there is more to it .... 



i had my cap charger running this way quite some time ago ....  but i was useing my neozap switch wich was induceing engery to the coil and i had cap recovery and self dumpping gain with each pulse ...  it was damm kool as i could see when the cap released with a big bang ... and it only did it when it was full .... lol

but it was the earth ground ...  from my chaser that caused it as i unhooked it from the earth ground it stopped self running but of course it still ran with gain ... cuz the cap ... i never even used a diode.....  hummmmmm

[xee2]

@ stprue

It started to increase in volts even though it wasn't on

How many volts and where were they being measured. My voltmeter reads several millivolts due to the electric fields in the house. A diagram would be helpful.

EDIT: Oh, I see you found out it was from power supply.

[Mk1]

@ALL

This is a really interesting video with a big toroid wired in 3 phases ...
it would be really nice on a jt scale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnsB5DE9pk&feature=channel

[Mk1]

@all

Some one said right and left hand rules ...

There you go ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihQlyy0B2O0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1Ar5WPJj8&feature=channel_page