G'day all,

I received a PM this morning:

Hi Hans,

I have very much enjoyed all the work and posting that you have done on the Earth Battery. I have a question , have you ever heard of a Timothy Thrapp? The reason I ask is because I just heard a radio interview and he was talking a lot about Stubblefield earth battery, He give a very simple description of it at about 17 min into the hour show and tell how the AC is made.  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/WaterFuelMuseum/2007/09/29/timothy

I went to the link and listened to the broadcast. There is some fascinating stuff in there. Worth listening to. I have lready written to Timothy Thrapp, we'll see what comes out of that.

Hans von Lieven

@ hans

Someone just called him a scam artist in another thread here... weird coincidence .. id still like to hear what he has to say

supposedly he has an address with the name of witts and wants people to send 100 dollars to him for every hr of phone help for his 20 megawatt power generator instructions. hmm could be legit probably not , for the "plans" that is. But that broadcast looks interesting if its what it says it is. im going to listen now while i eat dinner

EDIT:
Alright -  The money thing still bugs me but this guy is pretty much dead on about the coil.. notice how he always says tune to the dominant  or tune to receive power... He also mentioned High Frequency.

This is completly wild.. this guy figured the patent too... And my assumption thus far are backed up by this guy to the t and also explained our timing system or what he used. I'll elaborate more in the next post.

Quote from: hansvonlieven on February 03, 2008, 04:13:38 PM
a radio interview and he was talking a lot about Stubblefield earth battery, He give a very simple description of it at about 17 min into the hour show and tell how the AC is made.Hans von Lieven

Wow Hans,
Fantastic. You just saved me a whole bunch of trial n error. { got a little of the sunday meeting thrown in there too.  )
2,000 to 3,000 turns. I would probably never have wound that much, certainly not at first. Also #6 gauge wire. I wonder why he said the good wire is hard to get. spose that is the litz wire?
Anyway a bit of juice for the ideas is great.
Do you know about that spring switch that he describes? does it have a name? I kind of have the idea from the description but I also got the idea this fella wants the donations for more information. an inductance switch. must be available.

Thanks so much. Again,
jeanna

Interesting progress so far.  I'm still trying to locate the correct materials to build mine.  I'm also building it in 3d before I put it together to understand how exactly how its wound, and the directions. 

I read this from wiki about induction coils -

"Most induction coils utilized a magnetically activated vibrating arm to rapidly connect and break current flowing into the primary coil."

I guess digitally would be preferred, but maybe we could try a manual way like this for starts.

@Joe.  How do you believe the Stubblefields modified induction coil was oriented?  In the patent it shows it on the inside, therefore the bifilar wraps wouldn't be so close in proximity to the main rod which I guess would be the north and south at each ends.  In his cell it shows the core being made of wood, but maybe air would do just as fine, Idk.

@ Jenna

All it is is a crude self timed spark gap.. Although a very novel construction. Since they couldn't tune theirs easily he says that used different lengths of wire ect to achieve the desired effect of tuning the primary to a certian speed or freq... i think my idea is just as good because or better because the way i described we can adjust our freq of the primary at will so all those other physical elements wouldn't be needed once we find the sweet spot.. and since  he mentions hf i dont think its a certian freq at all  I think he built different size batteries so that the desired freq was achieved through the wires internal resistance and whatever other calculations were made that determined the secondary's freq which in turn was proportional to the voltage being created in it.. which probably led to many different size coils speifically made for things such as the heating system, hf lightings systems.. ect