@ sid10:

Nice work there.  Great idea with the delrin (teflon?) washers.

@ All:

I just got back from working a case.  Once I finish my reports, I hope to get back to my second layer.  Yes, the winding is a real pain.  I was turning the spike as I went along to keep everything uniform and then I looked over at my spool of copper wire, and my spool of iron wire, and they had made a nice rat's nest of themselves and were twisted together.  It was worse than a Rubic's cube trying to untangle them!  This only took an hour.!!  It would be nice if we could make a spool feed rack to allow the wire to roll of the two spools as we need it.  Ah, if only I had a machine shop again.

@ Joe:

Thanks for the info.  So, like in the patent, if we have many layers of primary, we should see more mA and have more to drive the secondary with.  Makes sense to me.  I wonder if it adds in a linear fashion with each layer or increases exponentially?  Maybe it is good I tested with one layer, I will test with 2, etc. to see. (As I go)  This should be very interesting.

I think it's great when people post their pics of their efforts.  I think Joe and I are using about the same length but I think it will be helpful to compare other lengths and results.  Possibly shorter with twice as many layers is better?  Only one way to find out.  I don't know how much copper I have left but should be enough for one more layer anyway.  I am really enjoying this. (This is a shot of the coil from a slightly different angle.  Single layer)

Bill

After the assembly I did several tests all with the coil dry. I got 1.1 ohms resistance on the steel wire and .7 ohms on hte copper. No shorts between any of the components. Next I soaked in a glass of warm water for about 5 minutes. As was expected all elements were shorted to each other at this point. I did get .01 volts DC sitting in a glass of water, no AC at all at least not with this meter. I was actually dissapointed with this reading, thought it should be higher. Now out to the back yard. The leads that I've ended up with are pretty short so I could not bury completly. I'll get some shrink wrap and extend them tomorrow. Readings from freshly planted coil were .51 volts DC and 215 millapms. Again no AC component was found. The amp reading is my best guess at reading this meter. However it dropped off real quick every time that i probed with the meter but was instantly back at the same reading if I probed quickly.
Iknow that I talked about using TIG wire and magnet wire but both posed probles. I took me about 2 hours to do what you see here.
Question, comments?
Sid

@sid

Great work , Im suprised you didnt have the same readings  in the water tho ...i don't understand why mine would and yours wouldnt.  anyways did i read that right 250 ma? compared to our 15 - 20 thats awsome man.

@ Joe
Joe if you could help me understand is this reading millivolts or what?
Dumbas a rock I am about meters.
Sid

@ Sid

Thats reading milli volts. Under the DCV Section towards the right side of your meter you should see DCA go for the 200m the last click on the dial for that section . and that will be amperage in a dead short