@ Jim:

Good going man!!  A 1 watt led lit from an EB!!  This is incredible.  I can't wait to see who runs what next.  These caps really opened the door in my opinion.  Can you post the videos on youtube?  Then just post a link here like I do.  Nice going.

@ Gadget:

Yes, carbon to the north.  I am using the North/south meridian as close as I can figure it to be for my area.  Those are some great rods you have there.  I wish I had more room to experiment.

Bill

Quote from: Pirate88179 on June 05, 2009, 03:17:49 PM
@ Jim:

Good going man!!  A 1 watt led lit from an EB!!  This is incredible.  I can't wait to see who runs what next.  These caps really opened the door in my opinion.  Can you post the videos on youtube?  Then just post a link here like I do.  Nice going.

@ Gadget:

Yes, carbon to the north.  I am using the North/south meridian as close as I can figure it to be for my area.  Those are some great rods you have there.  I wish I had more room to experiment.

Bill

Your setup is Ideal . Have you tried to recharge that cap since you discharge it and is it still recharging to over 2 volts ? I Don't Get that kind of recharging that fast and it don't charge over 1.3 volts here . . Or at least the spot they are stuck in . I did try the rods 100 feet away and got 1.9 volts but its too far to run a wire to the house where i want the power so until i find a 150 foot drop cord i can chop up  i'll live with the charge i get now . Its still very usable .

@Bill, Gadget and Jeanna,
Nice of you all to thank me, it was an amazing experience, but it was just a fluke I saw it.

Quote from: Pirate88179 on June 05, 2009, 03:17:49 PM
@ Jim:

Good going man!!  A 1 watt led lit from an EB!!  This is incredible.  I can't wait to see who runs what next.  These caps really opened the door in my opinion.  Can you post the videos on youtube?  Then just post a link here like I do.  Nice going.

@ Gadget:

Yes, carbon to the north.  I am using the North/south meridian as close as I can figure it to be for my area.  Those are some great rods you have there.  I wish I had more room to experiment.

Bill

I have the oppersate to you Bill, plenty of room, but carn't access carbon or mag rods lol.

Back to my EB.
Since that video, the LED has been off, and it hasnt even glimmered at all, but the EB is still putting out juice..

I have been sitting here and thinking about this, and I think I know what occurred.

The SC had been on the earth battery all last weekend and every day, but there was no load on the whole EB circuit.

Early that afternoon, I was in the back yard and I setup a second EB there.
(I plan to set up a couple more later on today)
To do this I took my analog Earth Current meter outside (I made it from an old engine analyser moving coil movement), and to get the best placeing I kept looking at the meter as I choose different spots.

I noticed something that I hadnt seen before.

To get one of the rods out of the earth I had to swing it backwards and forwards, lasy me had left a meter connection on the aluminion rod, I noticed the needle on the meter would swing backwards and forwards at each swing.
The deeper the rod went, more energy was produced, the faster I did this, the more vilent the meter needle swung.
I did this to almost position of the rod as I was trying to find the best final place for the rod.
I was outside for a good 3 hours at least mucking about.

OK, all this time back in the house, the ends of the lead in wires from the earth battery were connected to my 55Farad sc.

I think the wild swinging gave my Super Cap an extra cherge which topped it off, and later, after I connected the !1 Watter LED, (it did not light up stright away, but it lit up several hours later.

When the SC discharged, the LED went out.

All afternoon I was swapping Earth Batteries wires in the house, so somewhere there is a combination of what I did, and stumbled on the right connection, which so far I havent managed to do again.

I remember I had 2 x  1N5408 (1000v 3amp) diodes connected up (which I mentioned to you Bill when I spoke to you on the phone), but havent a clue how they were arranged, dum uh.

At the present time the same 1 watt LED is lit up by my special JT, the one with the 4 parallel secondary windings, there are 3 that are not connected to the LED.
   
So Im a bit reluctant to post anything on the YouTube just yet, until I am certain of its working, I once was caught out, and I just want to be really sure this time.

jim

Here is a video I made tonight of my earth battery and Fuji Joule Thief circuit lighting 400 leds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agqKEed7AOI

It is not a great video but, remember I am using a $50.00 video camera on all these videos.

@ Jim:

I still believe that, when placed under a load, the EB will respond in kind and put more out....for a while anyway.  Stubblefield indicated the same thing and I have seen it happen here.  I will try to find you a source there for the rods you really need to make this really crank up.  Good going Jim.

Bill

@Bill
Excellent video Bill

Quote from: Pirate88179 on June 07, 2009, 02:07:42 AM
Here is a video I made tonight of my earth battery and Fuji Joule Thief circuit lighting 400 leds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agqKEed7AOI

It is not a great video but, remember I am using a $50.00 video camera on all these videos.

@ Jim:

I still believe that, when placed under a load, the EB will respond in kind and put more out....for a while anyway.  Stubblefield indicated the same thing and I have seen it happen here.  I will try to find you a source there for the rods you really need to make this really crank up.  Good going Jim.

Bill

I have been racking my brains so much they are worn out, lol, in regards to my Earth Battery, never mind the answer is just hiding from me just now.

Bill, you have done really well with your EB, I am wondering just what you might be able to do with it next.

If I remember, you have 2 identical Super Caps, try this for me please.

Put the 1st SC in the EB and charge it for 1 day. Remove it after 24 hours
Then put the second SC in the circuit and recharge this one.

After the next 24 hours, remove that SC, then connect both SC in series, you should have double the volts, but just the same amps to play with.

Once again Bill this is a good EB video.

jim