@ Jim:

Those are good readings my friend.  This site and the calculator there will help you increase them:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomagmodels/IGRFWMM.jsp

This helps you calculate the magnetic deviation and dip angle for your location.  It is international and not just the USA.

The separation of the electrodes is important to getting more volts and amps out of them but does not fix the series hook-up problems we have seen.  The further apart your electrodes, the better it gets.  Now, I don't know how this translates with the single disk approach which you are now using.  One way to tell.

Keep up the great work down there....or up there.....ha ha.

Bill

Quote from: electricme on June 09, 2009, 05:28:01 AM
@Jeanna,

Thank you, I think I am about 15 feet away from my other EB.
Tomorrow morning I will measure the distance to be sure.

jim

ANSWER is 17feet 3 inches.

@PIrate,
Thankyou Bill for the link and the kind words.

This afternoon I decided to shuv one of those mag wheel rims in the ground, ummm it dosn't look promising, and the REB I put in yesterday has stopped its output, mabe I had betta pullout the wheel rim tomorrow and see if this is the problem  ha ha

Jim

Quote from: Pirate88179 on June 10, 2009, 01:48:39 AM


This helps you calculate the magnetic deviation and dip angle for your location.  ..

Bill

Hi Bill,
I wonder if you could explain how to use this? Or is there a quick link?

It tells me my decl is 16 deg 55 min east. I figure that is 17 east of the north on my compas, right?

Now, it also says 
18,800 nT  North
5.700 nT East

Those look like magnetic field amounts to me.

What do yours say?
Are you in a much more magnetic area than I am?

Thank you for that link.

jeanna

Jeanna:

I tried to copy and past me results here but it did not work.

My declination is 3 degrees to the west so i have to move 3 degrees to the east for the true meridian.

My inclination is 65 degrees and this is the angle that should be formed by the bottom of your electrodes with the north being the deepest.  Of course, this angle varies with the distance between the electrodes so you have to also change the depth to keep this correct if the separation value is changed.

My north nt value (whatever that is) is 21,296
My horizontal intensity is 21,334
My vertical component is 47,595
And my total field is 52,158.

When I used this I was mainly concerned with the alignment with the meridian and the dip angle for the bottom of the electrodes.  It make a huge difference. I can repost the link to where all of this is explained if you, or anyone wants me to.

Bill