@all,

Aerial Energy Observation.
Having been around batteries all my life, I have noticed something particular interresting with them, this is the white powder corrosion that formes only around the negative terminal.
When I have asked why this occurs, I have been told everything from A) it is just dirty terminals, to B) we just don't know.

Please look at the photograph, as we know, any electrical circuit needs whats is termed as a earth return.
I think the air is carrying out some function here, maybe it is aeather which is able to form a connection between the + and - terminals, and the circuit has the effect we see here.

Now, what would happen if the positive was connected to a earth stake, and the negative was connected to a aerial?
What would happen if several batteries were connected in series?

I might do this later, but I got to fly into town now.
Why did the pommies use Positive earth in their vehicles and everyone else used a negative earth?

jim
   

@Jim
Yes, China fireworks exciting.  This will be my third winter here.  I put on youtube before it was blocked of the fireworks in my city.  Search under my user id tishatang.  Whole city lit up for hours and hours.  Really cold zero degree C.  Now I can't access.  Broke my camera anyway.

The early Ford six volt systems were positive ground.  Maybe you have something here?
Chris

Jim:

First, best of luck to you on getting your internet set-up completed.  I was going to do a search for you but Tishatang beat me to it.

I wish I could remember where I read this but, I did read that dc batteries can have the polarities reversed with no detrimental consequences.  Maybe it was on the instructions for the 2 batteries (motorcycle) I bought for my Bedini replications, I really wish I could remember where this was.  It said something to the effect that if you use a NEW battery one way, you must continue to use it in that manner but it did not matter which was "ground" and which was the + in the beginning.

Maybe some other smart folks here can shed some more light on this for us.  Of course, with our Stubblefield research, we see that the "ground" (earth) can be both positive and negative which really blew the mind of one of my friends who is an electronics tech. when I showed him my set-up.

What does the government guy who hooked up your dish say about your situation?  Seems to me like he should not have left UNTIL it worked and you were online with it.  But hey, that's just my opinion.

Bill

electricme,

Just today I was out testing a lot of different configurations.  I learned a lot that I will share later once I retest my findings.  One thing I did was to run a galvanized steel wire about 6 feet up in the air on the south side of my earth battery.  I had no ground connection at all on this south connection.  My north connection was copper wire in the ground.  I measured 1.010 volts on it.  It had almost no milliamps.  I tried burying this south wire and the voltage dropped to .900 volts but I gained milliamps.  I found it fascinating that I could get over 1 volt by just running an air born wire to a grounded wire.

@Bill

I have seen a brand new lead acid battery dry charged to reverse polarity, I can happen.
But If you accidently reverse charge a battery, just put a lamp load on it for 24 hours, then recharge it the correct way, but make sure the battery is really dead flat first or it will fight the charger.

About the Activ8me tech installer, yep, he should have known better, I got his phone number so if all else fails, he will be rung.
This system is so new in Australia, that there is only a single web site avaliable for help, this is SATMAN in South Australia, turns out he is quite knowledgable with this system. I spoke to him yesterday and he has told me how to configure the satelite connection at my end, but I need to get the LAN or Ethernet up and running in the first place.

If anyone is reading this, and is willing to setup a web site dealing just with Activ8me Satellite Broadband hints on what to do when we run into trouble,,,,, that would be a huge help for people running into problems as the Activ8me just don't seem to want to do anything except take your money every month and provide NO backup, winge winge winge. 

@tishatang

Just a very belated happy birthday to you,,,,,,,,,,,,now thats cheeky 
I have downloaded the file at the end of the Gigabyte tunnell, looks like Marvin 8001 has something to do with this, also EasyTune v6 seems to be the utility to inject it into the Marvin LAN chip. (from what I have been reading).

@lasersaber
I have been following your experiments with eager expectations, you are doing very well
I think you had capatacance reaction with your steel wire, while it was in the air, when you buryied the wire, then it, reverted to a EER cell, which was able to harness some miliamps.

If you take a look see at that link tishatang posted above it will explain it better.

jim