Joule Thief

[jeanna]

Any way to raise current higher so i can light LED ?

This is free power that I am getting from this system !  Anyone tried this ?

A couple of years ago when we were doing probes in the ground and Bill was lighting a led and was not, I tried using a peizo buzzer because that will make a scratching sound - not a buzz- at these low amps. It is not a light, but there a bit of satisfaction from hearing the output.

Isn't it wonderful to get free power? even weefreepower?

try the buzzer. It is a nice thing to have in a pinch anyway. If you want to keep the neighbors out, you might even be able to rig it up to warn you using the EB... shades of stubblefield.

Freepow, you will find a lot of information about these kinds of energy from the earth if you go over to the 2 most active earth battery threads. They are always on the top, so it is easy to pick them out, so look at earth battery threads. I think you will like them a lot.

jeanna

[sm0ky2]

MOST THIEVENEST!!

just got done hooking up the 7-inch Thief.

a single AA by itself isnt enough to power this large coil,
but with a little assist from my smaller joule thief, i can power the coil and draw a load off its secondary. even while drawing a load of the smaller coil's secondary
made a shot of it in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9RgjAgSQOg

[Yucca]

My 90 foot long, 6-7 foot high long wire antenna + my ground pipe connection gives me as follows...

Why a higher voltage and current during daytime ? Anybody know why ?

Keep up the research, great stuff!

I would have expected higher voltages at night if it was harvesting HF RF radio waves, but the fact that its stronger in the day leads me to believe you might be picking up 50Hz, the grid currents are larger in the day. Your street will probably have subteranean lines feeding all the houses, when they pull more then more is radiated from the wires. Do you notice the highest point being in the early evening when dinners are being cooked and TVs and computers are on?

If you stick a 1n4148 diode on your wire end and then listen to that with a crystal earpiece then you will hear the 50 or 60Hz buzz if this is the main contributer.

edit:
your ground pipe connection might be giving quite a bit too if your house wiring is earthed to it. You could test that by making a seperate earth by burying a small bundle of bare copper wire. then check for potential betrween pipe earth and new seperate earth. My house ground (pipes) has quite a buzz on it, especially on the points furthest from the soil interface.

[freepow]

  Hi, I live in a country property in the hills, This is what I have got so far...
Day-1   daytime volts = 6,    .13 ma
Day-1   night     volts = 5     .07 ma

Day-2   daytime volts = 6     .13 ma
Day-2   evening volts = 5.5   .07 ma
Day-2   night     volts = 5     .04 ma

My ground pipe is a galv-iron pipe placed in ground completely seperate from the house, as I put it in my self.

Any comments ?

[resonanceman]

Hi, I live in a country property in the hills, This is what I have got so far...
Day-1   daytime volts = 6,    .13 ma
Day-1   night     volts = 5     .07 ma

Day-2   daytime volts = 6     .13 ma
Day-2   evening volts = 5.5   .07 ma
Day-2   night     volts = 5     .04 ma

My ground pipe is a galv-iron pipe placed in ground completely seperate from the house, as I put it in my self.

Any comments ?

Freepow

Some of Teslas work was based on the idea that the ionosphere is  charged  and the earth is  the opposite  charge.    If this is  true  then your wire might be acting  like  a capacitor.
One of  Teslas patents was about  an energy collector  that was mostly  metal  plates  suspended  above the ground .   I  remember  that the plates  were insulated and  he said the higher  they are the better they work .
There was several  variations  on the patent I believe that they all  had  a coil  and a cap  tuned for resonance .

Do  you have  some  sheet metal laying  around ?
A piece of  sheet metal  placed  horizontal  above the  ground  ( connected to your wire ) ( well insulated  from the ground ) as  high  as possible  may  give you  more power .

If I remember right  Tesla said that the setup in  this  patent  produced  energy all the time ........but more in the daytime .


gary