Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[freepow]

My antenna (+) connection from the South West end comes into house and the ground pipe (-) connection comes into house also as second picture shows...

[freepow]

I will start experimenting to see how many more of same antennas i can put underneath each other or maby side by side to see if I can increase current ! like next picture shows...

[Pirate88179]

@ Freepow:

Nice drawings, good job.

My questions is this.  You are running a JT from your antenna but, you say you are only getting AC from the antenna correct?  I was not aware that a JT circuit would operate from an ac input.  I always thought these were dc devices and would not work on pulsed dc or ac.  If this is really correct, it opens up some new possibilities.

Yours is the best voltage I have seen so far from an antenna system, nice work.

PS  I do my drawings in paint as well but, yours look good and mine suck, ha ha.

Bill

[jeanna]

Thanks freepow,
These drawings helped me understand this.

I like what you are showing and I think I will try something like this too.
My setup for datalogging is a lot like what you are doing (without the comfort of a house)
My meter is (occasionally connected) where your house is.
My multimeter shows 0.6vdc 185mA and my scope shows 85mv ac

Do you use any diodes?

@Bill,
You can start a joule thief with pulses, but the effect is very weak.

It is what I was doing when I "discovered" the effects in the 2 tiered circuit (which has evolved.)

The problem has to do with the transistor receiving pulses as input.
Its whole purpose is to make pulses, so to have 2 things making the pulses could either work by duplication, or not work by cancellation.

I think freepow got lucky on this one.

thank you,

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

Jeanna:

Thank you.  That aligns with my current (no pun intended) thinking of the JT circuits.

@ Freepow:

Have you checked your meter?  I mean, it is possible that you have blown one of the 2 fuses in it which might make it show 0 volts on the dc scale.  Does it still show dc from a battery?  Sorry to ask this type of question but hey, I lost the amps reading side of one of my meters 3 times due to blown fuses and it read 0.

Bill