Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[electricme]

@nightshade

electricme

that's a nice idea using the transformer as a set of probes nice and compact and

could be a way of using that transformer as an earth receiver as well ;  )

keep  on tinkering

                               shane

Thanks shane, but this was tishatangs idea, not mine, he asked for volunteers to help out with this experiment, so I stuck my hand up.

You just might be right about the magnifier effect though, (waiting for the MOT to magnify), I went to a site last night where someone gets better radio reception by sticking the aerial to earth and sticking earth to aerial connection, seems to pull in distant stations, overtime they all crowd together and its just so much noise.

jim

[electricme]

@ Freepow

@ All

I want to charge my 1-F Cap from an EER (EB), do I just connect cap + to EB + and cap - to EB -
or do I use a diode etc.??
please could someone explain the best way to do this, thanks.

We need to know what the 1-F caps voltage is, and what the voltage your EEB is.

General rule is you need a higher voltage supply than what the 1-F caps rating is.

jim

[freepow]

@ Jim

My cap is 5.5v, my EER is only 1 cell at about .8-.9v, 3 mA

[electricme]

@ freepow

@ Jim

My cap is 5.5v, my EER is only 1 cell at about .8-.9v, 3 mA

Right oh, well you can try it but I don't think you will achieve charging the 5.5v cap.

I think you are going to have to make up extra EERs, at the very least 5 more, even better, make 15 of them.

Then connect them in series, insulating each cell with insulation tape.

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Whats happening is this.
You have this huge cap to fill, but the bucket to fill it is just too small, but it will fill the cap, only to the electrical preassure of .9 volt MAX, (see big water tank drawing) anything over this with your current setup will be done by spikes.

So we need to up the "preasure" some what.
To do that, we can do it in a couple of ways.

1/ make more cells, (at least 6 cells) and connect them in series, if you get 15 cells in series, all the better.
2/ 6 cells, each cell about a 15 inches long. So we use volts and a bit more amps to do the job.

I have a couple of these 5.5 volt caps here, I wasnt real happy with their performance.

jim

[electricme]

@Bill,

I havent really played around with MOTs before, but I think you could be right there about grounding one side of the trannies windings, I will give this a go tomorrow sometime and see what happens lol.

@ freepow,

In your previous post, relating to connections between F Cap and EER, you are right, they are all paralled up, + to + and - to -.

In my last post to you, the small "black" single cell of .9 volts, refers to the bottom of the "tank" to the dotted line.

By adding the 5 extra (red) cells, the voltage is able to rise enough to refill the CAP.
The smaller the amps, the longer it will take to refill it.

Making the cells longer or wider, the higher the amps, the faster it fills.

It's past my bedtime, night night all

hooroo

jim