@ Freezer:

Interesting links.  Thanks. I am pretty sure these materials are available somewhere for a decent price.  We just need to find what industry uses them, and then find a good supplier. Example, the carbon rod I bought is a gouging rod used in the welding industry.  It was about 1/10 the price (about $20) than quotes I received on similar rods. I am in the process of finding some magnesium in different forms very cheap.  I know someone mentioned auto wheels but, they have to be an alloy as magnesium is way to soft for it to be pure in that application.

Bill

New mA record!!!!

This will be hard to explain, but I will try.  I was just outside and got an idea to tie my two 12" long zinc coated spikes into the cell.  The spikes are still in the ground from other experiments and are on the south end, spaced about 3 feet apart.  So, I had on the north side (+) two carbon rods spaced three feet apart.  South side, polar aligned with the left carbon rod, magnesium block. (-) And now, added two zinc spikes which were jumped together. Oh, and north and south electrodes seperated by about 5 feet.

1.45 vdc
3.8 mA and steady!!

Volts went down but mA went up to a new personal record.

Sorry for the multiple posts but I wanted to announce this.  Some progress made here today.

Bill

Well I took the first steps towards replicating the Meyer Absorber Patent.  I used the simpler form that Hans von Lieven had posted on this thread.  The one that uses two horeshoe magnets.  Initially I have only done a very quick and dirty test of the setup and I dont have all of the components yet to complete as near a match to his original setup.  I have two 6 inch horseshoe magnets (not exactly what Meyer's was using these are steel and each end features a super-strong Neodymium magnet) and two zinc plates.  I dont have any iron wire, but Im going to order some.  At this point all I have is magwire and soldering wire (lead based).  The magnets were only about a foot distance from each other.  The zinc plates were were a little longer than the magnet and would stick out past the ends of the horseshoe so at some point Im going to try cutting them down so they are flush to see if this has any affect either.  The experiment was done on the 2nd floor of a house so they were not in contact with the earth ground.  Anyhow when I tried the magwire I was only seeing around 5-6mvDC and I was not able to see any amps.  When I used the soldering wire however the voltage jumped up to 25mvDC but still no amps.  So at the moment there appears to be something to it, but the question is can amps be produced as well as volts?  I'll be interested in seeing once the iron wire arrives it makes any difference and I may purchase a different type of magnet as well later on.  I was having trouble finding any magnets of the type listed in the patent.

I've been replicating the earth battery experiments as well and finding similiar results to what most have posted (stable voltage but no apparent amperage).  However I see in the past few pages it looks like some of you might be getting amps out of the earth batteries now so I will have to go back through and re-read how your doing it.

Regards,

David

@mramos:

When I say it is brighter with the cap. here is what I mean.  If you just take an led and hook it to the cell, it lights to a brightness level we can cal "x".  When you use the cap. and do the same, the brightness level of the led is near 0, at first.  But then, and this is what I have been seeing here, it begins to light and almost right away the level is maybe x +2, then +3 etc., untill it is about 1.5 or so times the brightness level with no cap.  This is why I have been saying that the cap. charges while the led is lit.  I was very surprised by this. And, if you just charge the cap. off of the cell for a while and then disconnect it, hook up the led, very bright, although probably not maximum rated brightness, but still, to me very bright.

Yes, $20 for the rod is expsensive but that is nothing compared to the prices I was getting before someone posted on here about gouging rods.  Possibly there is another industry that uses truckloads of these things and we can get them even cheaper? Like Radio Shack, for example, I paid $5 for ONE led and later bought 30 from China for $8 which included shipping!  We just have to know where to buy is all.  Some people are speaking of uses copper plates.  OK wait until they see the price for a copper plate 1' x1' x 1/4" thick.  I'll bet it is well over $100 or more.

The more people that are working on this, the better prices we will find I think.

Bill

Quote from: Pirate88179 on December 30, 2007, 06:56:23 PM

Yes, $20 for the rod is expsensive but that is nothing compared to the prices I was getting before someone posted on here about gouging rods. 
Bill

Bill,
from McMaster:  12" long x 3/4" Diameter - 5 pieces cost $12.70  ( =$2.54 each)+ shipping

George