Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[electricme]

@ smOky2
Current out is 47 mA at 58 volts direct short,

I put a standard white LED directly across the output
It survived this, though it is extreamly bright, hurts the eyes to look directly at it.

LED drops the voltage back to 3.3volts at 47mA

I am feeding the LED through about 163 feet of cable, so yes, I like it.

jim

[Pirate88179]

Jim:

Excellent output my friend!  This is some great work you are doing over there.  This is the highest voltage output I have ever read about from a set-up like this.  Your mA's are higher as well.  This is a very good step forward Jim.  I like Smokey's idea of having several groups like this and wiring them in parallel to add the power.  Fantastic!

To save on materials, I wonder if you could cut your tube lengths in half and still see the same results?

Interesting you had all those chem trails recently and now, it is all over the world news about your dust storms down there.  I wonder if thy are related?

Bill

[IotaYodi]

You need to run them in parallel now to see what amps you get. If you get enough you could run a dc geared motor hooked to whatever. I would like to see the ratio of amps to voltage with this many pipes.
http://www.hobbyengineering.com/SectionM.html

[electricme]

First to Bill,
Thankyou, I also haven't seen anyone else with this many EB cells in series.

The voltage this morning was hovering about 50volts, the single white LED was blazing away merrily, sign of the EB cells going down, although they were being pegged back a bit.

Yes, the dust storm was a beauty, stone the flaming crows, everything is now pink, pink roof, pink chariot and it was under cover, pink grass, pink everywere. (da pink monster got loose).
It was a bit hard to breathe, at one stage, but never mind, I stayed indoors, didn't drive anywhere, didn't want that stuff in my engine giving it a re-boor job. But today is nice blue skies.

I did feel sorry for the police motorcycle and car going through town, they were an escort for a really big coal mine transporter bucket/tip tray thingy, they were headdin directly into that mess.
Well you will be able to see it for yourselves.

jim

[electricme]

Now to IotaYodi,

You need to run them in parallel now to see what amps you get. If you get enough you could run a dc geared motor hooked to whatever. I would like to see the ratio of amps to voltage with this many pipes.
http://www.hobbyengineering.com/SectionM.html

Now isnt it interresting what a well placed question can do!
I have been thinking about this  for a while, and this morning I braved the elements and with my trusty wire cutters I divided up these 80 cells into 4 seperate banks of 20 cells, which are giving out around 14.7 volts DC each, give a .5 volt or two in difference.

I made up 8 very long jumper leads with small alligator clips at either end of each lead and paralled up these 4 EB cells.

Very interresting indeed.

OK before I divided the cells up, this is the following I observed.

50.5 volts open circuit, short through meter = 0.47 mA not 47mA as I posted back a bit.

I put a single White LED across this lot last night, and it pegs back the voltage to 3.28 volts at 0.20mA. The LED is extreamly bright, and this morning it is still blazing away, didnt look like stopping.

I unhook the LED, the voltage heads upward to 50.5 volts and going higher.
I go outside and water each cell, just enough to form a bubble on top of the tubes, the voltage rises.
I put the White LED  back in circuit, voltage is pegged back to 3.37 volts at 0.46 mA.

*********** end of series experiment ****************

Begin Parallel earth series of experiments.


This is a Series Parallel EB cell arrangement.
4 Banks of cells in series, connected in parallel

Short out current = 2.69mA dropping to 1.66mA and holding steady.
Voltage drops to = 4.2 volts

Remove short     
Voltage rises to 14 volts fairly quickly to 15volts about 3 minutes later on.
Switch on LED    Voltage drops to 3.502 volts
Current drawn is 1.86mA dropping back to 1.23mA.

one minute later on, LED is extreamly bright.
Voltage is 3.488 volts and slowly dropping
Current is  1.15mA

Remove LED from circuit.
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I hook my Joule Thief to this 4 parallel EB cell circuit

Voltage 15.30v
At connection, voltage dropped to 0.02v because of flat batt on JT
After a while the JT batt rose to 1.0 v rising to 1.108 volts
Current whilst charging nicad is 1.43 mA

Turn on JT after 1/2 hr of charging batt by EB cells
Red LED came on brightly the became extreamly dim very fast.

Remove nicad batt

Voltage is 14.7 volts
Switch on JT
voltage drops to .798volts in about 30 seconds
Current is 2.30mA, drops to 1.45 mA
LED is on for about 7 seconds

Remove Joule Thief
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Test a round LED light consisting of 24 HiBright LEDs
This usually takes 4 x 1.5volt dry cells.

OC voltage stert = 16.12v
At switch on, 16.12v Current = 2.5mA  LED is bright, quickly is a constant dimm.
After 5 minutes, Voltage is 2.751 volts Current = 1.30mA semi constant dimm

After examining the photo, I can see the electrical activerty has changed.
It is now 2.717 volts at 1.29mA

Take a look see at this

jim