Quote from: IotaYodi on December 02, 2010, 11:36:02 AM
No. too much carbon. I recommend 1006 black oxide wire. I got a 10 lb 1/16 inch 960 foot roll for $29 US. You can also get it on 5 lb spools at 480 foot for $18 US. The 1/16 inch is close to 14 gauge wire. Zinc is more expensive but you really dont need it. The black oxide is a thinner coating. I have tested the 1006 and found zero remanence. Good soft low carbon iron. 

I will have a look around for it. Would that be found in the same place, say a farm supply store or should I be looking in a hardware store for it.

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I Have been in contact with a small company called brillmans. I only wanted 500 foot of #14 cotton wire. He said it would take 3 to 4 weeks to set his machine up and buy the wire. The cost of 14 GA 500 feet is $133.50 per 500 feet. He would probably speed this up if more wire was bought. I haven't given him any money yet. He said he would contact me. Much cheaper than $7.50 a foot. If you said you wanted a thousand foot or more of #14 gauge he might setup quicker. If so I would go a Thousand foot. Heres his Number. Let me know what he says!
John Brillman
The Brillman Company
Phone Toll Free 888-274-5562
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Thank you so much IotaYodi. I have called and placed my order. He said it would be about 3-4 weeks. Same as he told you. He will have to set his machine up at a different setting because he is used to wrapping PVC covered wire.

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I myself would use wooden end caps for moisture retention. Ive made up a few 5/8" plywood cap ends with my hole saw. I got a new couch and took some oak wood from the old couch and will probably make a few from them.
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I am going to follow Lasersabers video for now. Ultimately I am going to aim for a non-galvanic coil, however for now I will build what I know and then play around with the design.

I have a feeling that the induction coil was built primarily as a sinkhole for stray electrons to go into whilst travelling through the ground, and that is where NS got the majority of his power from. .5 v and no amps is not enough to run heat, lights and motors/wireless transmitters. It's possible that is the reason for the huge flat wire wrapped around the coil that was dissected. There is something we are missing here for sure. One of these days all our tinkering will make it work I am sure of it.

Stu

QuoteI will have a look around for it. Would that be found in the same place, say a farm supply store or should I be looking in a hardware store for it.

Its unlikely either will have the lower carbon needed for less remanence in hardware stores. Most of it is zinc coated also. Ive checked samples of wire from tractor supply and they all had too much remanence. Thats not to say this wire wouldn't work, but you really want wire that isnt subject to permanent magnetization. You want the maximum field collapse that soft low carbon iron can give you. Your common bailing and tie wire has a larger carbon content.     

QuoteI have called and placed my order. He said it would be about 3-4 weeks

Excellent!

QuoteI have a feeling that the induction coil was built primarily as a sinkhole for stray electrons to go into whilst travelling through the ground, and that is where NS got the majority of his power from

Actually more than that. Ns stated the most important thing was the location of the Earths telluric currents. There are millions of amps down there. His coils weren't placed just anywhere. 

Quotefor the huge flat wire wrapped around the coil that was dissected.

That would be the secondary winding to boost amps. Eventually you will want to do that.

@ All:

Jim (electricme) and I were speaking the other day and, if you look way back on this topic you will see some photos posted by Hans of a box of Stubblefield coils on the front lawn of his farm.

Well, if you look close, you can see a bunch of connecting wires to all of the coils.  Jim and I speculated that possibly, some were connected in series to get the volts and the rest were connected in parallel to get the amps.

In other words, NS did NOT just place a single coil in the ground to get his results.  There appeared to be about 10 coils or more in that box in the photo.  This might be a valuable clue.

Bill

@All,
I made a special trip into town today to but 24 X 3inch X 1/4 inch steel bolts to make a lot of small stubblefield coils, but missed getting there in time by just a few minutes, so it will have to be put on next weeks agenda.

I was woken last night at midnight by hoons doing wheelies on the highway, got back to sleep about 4am woke almost at 10am. Never mind at least I tried.

Looking at the photo, the box with all the coils in it, I think the area where the photo was taken, there is  no visible sign of any dirt being disturbed or a hole where a coil might be, so I believe Stubblefield had to have a source of electrical energy and he might have placed all his coils in Series Parallel configuration to achieve this to power a single coil, and have a jumping contactor to make and break the circuit.

A much bigger secondary coil could be powered this way.
     

Nice talking to you again Bill.
This thread is getting interresting again, lol.

jim

@Bill
I remember seeing a box of caps. Would that be the picture You are referring to? There was another closeup pic of the box of caps but I couldnt find it.