Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[freepow]

Thanks Bill.

@ All

, I have just lit my first  white LED on only one EER cell...
(1/2 inch diam-copper pipe +, 1/4 inch-galv steel rod - both are only 19 and 3/4 inch long, which puts out approx...  .9 volt and about 3 mA. The mA's start dropping when connected to a DMM.

The EER then feeds my small Joule thief which then fills my super cap which lights my LED...

The EER (earth battery) does not go directly to the cap, It directly feeds the Joule thief, then goes on to fill cap and light LED.

I'm not saying others have'nt done this, but its a first for me with only 1x copper pipe and 1x galv steel rod cell.

LED is not lit completly at its brightest though, but the more turns i give my toroid the brighter the led seems to get.
My next experiment is to put a much much longer copper pipe in the ground which should give me better mA's
to feed my JT, then hopefully my LED will be much brighter...

Here are some photo's of my small EER - JT

[electricme]

@ Cosmicfarmer

My back yard is sunk in 4 feet of snow


Anytime you trade voltage from one cap to another you loose 75% from what I remember, so what ever bucket gets filled with ground power is what is basically going to power the joule thief, and from there what ever.  You are going to need a series / parallel arrangement to get initial volts up from under 1.  You could charge 24  caps to .5 and slap them all together for a moment and you have 12 volts. The trick would be to have a sensor on it and flip the caps when they're hot.

so tired from the snow.

4 feet of snow, I have never seen snow, that's right, if I saw snow, I would be like a day old kiddie, wouldn't know what to do with the stuff.

Now, the bit about charging caps and discharging them is interresting, I have been thinking along these lines for about a year now, even made a circuit a long way back in Bills Joule Thief thread.
Thought about using a Dot/Bar graph IC, add some caps and variable resistances to control the timer, allow each cap to fill up in turn, before the sequence go to the next cap. When the 9Th "LED" is lit, it sends a "high" to transistor bases, discharges all the caps together, forming a huge pulse.
The 10Th "LED" high switches the "reset" pin and so the whole process begins all over again.
The trick is to pick the caps to be filled so they can be filled in micro seconds, the big punch is when they are connected in parallel via independent transistors.

Then you need a bit more current available to do this, but the principle should work OK. The trick is to have enough caps to try and keep a flow of energy up to the circuit, hmmmm.

@ freepow
You are right about the rise in the cost of power in this neck of the woods, I have cut out drinking cups of tea all day long, seems I was boiling the kettle all the time.
I also dumped my faithful but power guzzling monitor, just switched over to using a LCD PC monitor, (early Xmas pressie) I saw the savings by looking at the UPS current demand LEDs going down. I'm using just under half the power consumption that I was before.

Evil captain Bligh is going to sink with her ship of labor sailor men at voting time, I can feel it in my bones, making her walk the plank on voting day will do my heart some good, ha ha ha.

@ tishatang,
Are you OK? We haven't heard from you for a while and I am concerned for you.
I hope you and your family are OK, and have a over due happy birthday, and keep warm and well.

@all,
The satellite man is going to install broadband on my computer tomorrow morning at 6AM.
The temperatures after a couple hours on a roof are too high for him to work safely, that's the reason for the very early start.

Lets hope it goes OK without any hickups.
I will duck outside every now and again and take photos on the progress, then at cutover (ditch dial up) I will try and see how it goes.

Goodnight all, it's 11:16PM and I need my beauty full snoring dreaming sleep.
roll on 6am (yipeeeeeee) alarms are set for 5am.

jim

[electricme]

@ Freepow,

Congratulations are in order.

Well done on your lighting your first LED via a Joule thief using ground power.

It's quite an achievement, a nice feeling isn't it.
Don't worry about the brightness, fine tuning will make it brighter.
You are on the way to making your own free power.

Well done sir.

jim

[freepow]

Thanks Jim, how have you been ?

I can now power the LED fairly good now without the capacitor, I think I have fine tuned it the best I can...
If I add another EER to my first EER, it becomes even brighter !

1x EER cell  = LED lit resonably bright  (1x copper pipe, 1x galv steel rod)  .8 to .9 vdc  at  4 to 5 mA's
2x EER cells = LED lit even brighter     

I think its lit just as bright as a solar garden LED light or there abouts...

[Pirate88179]

Freepow:

Nice going there!  I really enjoy seeing stuff light up with free energy from the earth.  Check out the original earth battery topic and see what lasersabre has just done over there.  He has posted 2 videos now but it is replicable by anyone.  This is fantastic to see this progress you guys are making.

@ Jim:

We should get lasersaber to post over here as well.  His electric motor has run for hours now off of his EER with no cap!  This is all good progress.

Merry Christmas everyone

Bill