Quotenext while I should just be doing it.  I am going to try to crack the 2 volt reading as my next goal.  If you hit 3, I guess I'll have to re-think my approach.  Best of luck.

Right, Bill

I just want to make sure (?) that this series type thing is nothing but galvanic before I give up on it. The 10 pager from Don Adsitt's site claims 12v multiplied to 120v, but at the bottom of the page is written, I assume by Don, that he tried it and it doesn't work. Not much info and it is easy. I can try to get 3 cells to give me 3 v. easy.

I am very impressed with the magnesium carbon results. I bought the last fire brick the hardware store had and these pencils prove the point but are so breakable, I see these as the best combo, but for the series concept the copper zinc will show it. And  it will be easy to check the copper for changes.

So, If you put a bunch of glass christmas balls in the shape of a tree and shine a single red led at them will you get a lit up tree? Maybe it needs to have needles


also, I am wondering why the wire between the 2 horseshoe magnets had to be uninsulated?

jeanna

Quote from: jeanna on December 23, 2007, 08:24:03 PM
This carbon rod encased on copper sounds interesting to me. Does this rod have a particular name? Are you in the US?
jeanna

Hi Jeanna,

It is called Air Carbon-Gouging Electrode You can find it at www.mcmaster.com search for 'gouging'.  It is on page 3267 of their catalog.  They sell them copper coated or plain.
George

Hello all:

Well today, I actually did a little more experimenting.  (cold)  I wired my tree array,(I have pictures of it posted somewhere way back) which is -, to the neg. side of the meter and also used a jumper to the neg. side of the meter (probe) from the magnesium block which is also -.  The + probe of the meter went to the carbon rod.  1.6 vdc.  Disconnecting the magnesium block from the mix it went down to 1.25 which is common for the tree array.  Hooking the magnesium block back up and testing just between it and the carbon rod it was back up to 1.8 vdc which is what I have been getting lately.  So, adding the tree array into the mix on the - side raised the volts from it but lowered the volts from the carbon rod/mag. block setup.

I am still not giving up on the series stuff just yet.  Hans's idea with the coal is great.  But, although Kentucky produces a lot of the coal for the US would you believe no one around here even sells it?????   I have made many inquiries with no luck as of yet.  I am sure I can find some somewhere.  The test to do, from my point of view, would be three blocks of coal drilled and wire implanted into it wired together and buried in the ground.  Three magnesium blocks wired together and also buried separately in the ground.  Then test for potential between the cells as suggested by Joe.  I think this is promissing.

Welcome to Sid10.  I also think you were possibly reading off the milliamp scale so it would be good to double check that.  If not, this would be a huge leap ahead and we, I am sure, would be very interested in your experiments.  As Jeanna said, welcome to the fun.

Bill

@ all ... small bit of good news,
            I spoke with emdevices from the micro tpu forum and explained to him what our readings were about a week or less ago and he confirms that the potential we have as long as we dump it into a parallel cap bank should be enough to start oscillations in the micro tpu without stepping it up first.

So concept for usable power here is that we fill say 5 to 10  5v large farad number caps... 36000 mfd or higher and connect their terminals in parallel with the electrodes off the other end of the cap bank we would feed this micro tpu-  the output of this device should be enough to light a few led's while charging a battery... some of the folks in that fourm have led's running off of one cap and this device for over 2 hrs on a single charge to the cap...

We have a indefinite supply as opposed to this single charge so i see this as being the next goal .. im getting a new soldering iorn with a base and temp control for Christmas ...  Then these small soldering projects wont be such a nightmare...

I had my  radio shack tip break in half off of the iron while i was barely pushing on some pcb .. i spilled my soda when my arm smaked the table and at that point i broke the iron in  half at the plastic joint and threw it.... freakin rs crap.

G'day all,

I have not been sitting idle in spite of some difficult circumstances. I am still working on the Roy Meyer device. There are a number of strange aspects to it. I have almost finished another one of my "stunning graphics"  to show what I mean. I should be able to post this within a day or two.

Merry Christmas to you all, Muslims, Hindus, Jews and Christians alike even to you Atheists. There is nothing wrong with wishing others well no matter what religion they believe in, so I will NOT do the politically correct thing and qualify it.

I wish you all well, and hope there will be peace on this f*cking globe one of these days.

Hans von Lieven