"Smoking Gun" - finally!

[PaulLowrance]

Thanks for tips broli. Although not to the extremes you've mentioned, I have measured the diode arrays are various temperatures. So far two types of effects have been measured.

1) Effect #1: Temperature - the diode array voltage has consistently changed throughout the day, where it's peak is when the root temp is peak, and minimum when the root temp is minimum.

2) Effect #2: TEDE (thermal equilibrium diode effect), where most (not all) of the diodes DC voltage is reset caused by a rapid change such as in temperature.  TEDE is believed to be caused by flicker noise, which is easily reset by either halting the DC current long enough, or by a rapid change such as temperature. One good example of this was when I took a heat gun to both the 1st and 2nd metal shields. In fact, the heat gun was so hot that it broke. The diode temp must have been over 100F. Anyhow, prior to the heat gun, the diode DC voltage was high, over 0.2mV DC. Almost immediately after applying the heat gun, within a half hour, the DC voltage began to sink like a rock. After about three days or so it sank to 12.4uV DC. After about a week the DC voltage began to slowly rise again until I disturbed the diode array again, which caused it to sink again. It began to rise again, until I disturbed it again, and it sank again. It went to it's lowest to date, which is 6.9uV DC. Now it's been 8 days later and it's up to 21.9uV DC taken from last nights measurements. This shows the signs of flicker noise, which is 1/f noise; i.e., the longer you wait, the higher the noise voltage.

PL

[broli]

Why is so sensitive to temperature changes? It seems to be acting like an inertial body or even a magnetic field. That is that it heavily opposes change.

[PaulLowrance]

That's a good question. I know flicker noise causes charges to become trapped over time, a very slow process. And we're dealing with thermal equilibrium here, so at this level it's a plausible theory that the trapped charges are easily released, which would reset the flicker noise. Remember, flicker noise is a 1/f spectrum. So if the DC current is on for 10 seconds, then that's 0.1 Hz flicker noise. If it's on for 1 hour, then that's 278 uHz flicker noise. 0.1Hz / 278uHz = 360. So the flicker (1/f) noise is a lot higher after 1 hour. If we repeat the 1 hour test again, but interrupt the DC current half way through, then it's no longer 278uHz. Rather, it's 556uHz, which has less flicker noise.

PL

[PaulLowrance]

Continuing from my last post, this is uncharted territory, so one can only speculate. Who knows, for all we know it could be a build up of some unknown current, who knows, perhaps etheric current. 

PL

[broli]

Yep most talk will not bring us far at this stage. What's your current status on the chip fabrication?