There are some great ideas on this thread. I'm not ready for pursuing electronics just yet, although I've had experience.

Yesterday, I decided to see if placing the copper pipe north of my cage would make a difference, with the idea of an N/S alignment happening eventually. Since this cage is so big, I think I'd have to be some distance away from it to get a meaningful alignment. Anyway, I plastic tie wrapped a piece of wood to the copper pipe so that I could hold onto the wood instead of the copper (and remove myself from the circuit). My meter's plus lead was alligator clipped to the 1/2" copper pipe, and the negative lead was alligator clipped to the red/green pair of my phone line of which the other end was terminated on the wire cage.

I initially dowsed the area and found a couple of prospects and started probing around there with the pipe. I found that I only had to touch the pipe on the ground to get a reading. I was getting .4 something DC all around my little 'hot spot'. I got one reading at .7, and my alligator clip fell off the pipe right after, which made me move the pipe and I lost the spot. Ha ha!!

I went back to the south side and the initial spot I dowsed is actually part of a line going towards the house. This line was the one I tried digging up before, but nothing was there. Touch probing this line gives .4 something DC and if I touch probe outside of that line, it drops off.

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A few years back I worked for a water department in their electronics shop (I have a 2 year degree in electronics). We took care of the telemetry, control and monitoring equipment. One of our tools was a pair of headphones. At the time, the telemetry equipment worked over the phone lines and a typical signal would be a carrier of say 1k hz, then a mark/space (ie +25 hz/ -25 hz) about that carrier would send the data. We often listened to the signals with our headphones. On occasion, when the telemetry was hosed, we'd hear a real low frequency hum and know that the line had a ground on it, so we'd have to call the phone company and the special circuit guys would come out and clear it up.
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After reading some more of this thread (I intend to finish it and am on page 23 now  ), I'm wondering if headphones would be the best way to find the hot spots. I read Stubblefield spent a lot of time in finding his hot spots. If I believe Stubblefield figured it out, I guess you will always get something putting your electrodes in willy nilly, but it's all about finding the hot spots to get some meaningful current.

I'm going to see if I can't do better than having my copper pipe on a stick to find the place to work from. I saw a picture of Stubblefield standing with an oddly shaped 'cane' and didn't know if it was a detector of some kind or part of his phone system.

I wonder how he found his hot spots is the whole idea here.

@ Freezer:

Nice work there.  We could run that with 4 of the smaller sized coils in series I believe.  Can't wait to see what happens on the secondary then.

@Epiphany:

According to what I have seen in my multiple electrode experiments, the only "hot spot" you need is to have the north south alignment with the positive material to the north, and the angle of the bottom of the implanted electrodes to match the magnetic dip angle for your area.  This gave me the best results.  I do not believe Nathan went around looking for spots better than others.  I only read that in one small writing and I am dubious as to the information's accuracy.  Of all of the many other documents I have read, this is not mentioned at all.  It does not mean it is not true of course, but I think it is unlikely.  I can get over 2 volts dc using the above mentioned process using just 2 electrodes.  All experimentation is good however and I am fascinated by your dowsing techniques.  I would love to attempt that sometime.

Bill

Bill,
Has someone tried to put some of these coils in series yet?

jeanna

Quote from: jeanna on March 06, 2008, 11:51:40 AM

I think stronger is possible. I am going this less modern way in a personal effort to observe things that NS might have observed. In this way, I am hoping to get some of the same insights, which I believe have been lost.

I am not really sure that more than 2 winds doesn't increase the voltage. It didn't on the 2 I tried the other day. Maybe thicker wire will do it maybe a longer or larger diameter coil will do it.

I have a little motor which will switch direction if I switch the polarity of the battery leads, so, I am quite sure running an AC device (if that is what you meant) is possible.

Thanks Jeanna 

I remember  reading  somewhere  that  for this kind of coil   bigger  wire is better. 

I was thinking of  1/4 " copper  ground wire .  and  maybe a dozen or so strands  of  that iron  wire used for  tying  rebar      (twisted into a  cable )

Another  idea using that  iron wire.
I wonder  what  would be  different  if  a toroid was made  from a pound or 2 of that iron wire and used as the core .

I have another  project  to work on first ...........but  in time I hope  to  do some  expermenting   with   some  of  the ideas on this  thread .

gary

@ Jeanna:

You mean besides Nathan Stubblefield?  (Grin) Yes, I have and they add up volts in series and mA in parallel.  Tests not done in the ground but wet, as the other tests have been done thus far.  Since these are in effect, "self-contained" I don't anticipate any shorting when wiring in series as we saw with the multiple electrodes.  I just have not tested mine in the ground as I am waiting for some money to get some secondary winding wire, otherwise I would have to dig back up and clean it before winding the secondary and I think that might be a mess.  I believe that NS used these in both parallel and series.  I am not sure where I read that exactly.  Good luck with your latest efforts over there.

Bill