@ All:

Well, I finally got outside and buried the larger of my two coils. Results as follows:

vdc: .83
mA: 39      (This number falls off quickly to about 32 mA.)
vac: 1.1

All in all, the numbers are a little better than when wet sitting on my kitchen table.  We will see what happens over the next few days.

Bill

@ All:

I have a new personal record after burying my coil all the way:


AC Volts: 1.3 vac
DC Volts: .93vdc
Ma: 56mA  (drops to 47 mA pretty fast)

OK so, well, I added a little distilled white vinegar (5% solution) to the hole before inserting my coil.  The readings are staying consistent.  I also added some water while inserting my coil so we will have to see what happens.

Bill

@bil

nice work bill, how long did you leave your cell in the ground before you took your readings?.

@all

Well i decided to take my larger cell and submerge it it a 10% solution of malt vinegar and tap water, well the best readings i got are below:-

.637 vdc
63ma

i left it there over night in the solution and took the reading again in the morning and there were no improvments?, i also connected the terminals 5&6 to a magnetic reed switch and used a motor with a disc  mounted ontop with 4 magnets mounted at 90 degree intervals so a total of 4 magnets.

I hooked the motor to 9v battery and took readings at terminals 10&11,well the best readings were:-

.437 Vac

the voltage dropped to around:-

.230

It remained stable at this voltage.

ok so the cell didnt impress me as much as id expected but i did get a surprise about an hour ago!
I took the cell from the solution and took it back outside to the hole i removed it from, i decided to dig the hole deeper,now the top of the cell is sitting 6 inches lower that the ground level, the pine soil is still in the hole.

The cell was in the ground for around 4 hours only!, i went outside an hour ago to check the readings and got the highest readings i ever had from this cell?, the readings are below:-

.710 Vdc
82ma

Going to test again tomorrow after work.

Chad.

Quote from: Localjoe on October 19, 2007, 02:42:39 PM
So i took a wack at something i thought was going to be wild but i deff had to satisfy my curiosity,   Go stick a small copper pipe or piece of sheet copper like 5 inches or so in the ground, then take a steel screw stick it in the ground about a foot away from the copper and tell me the voltage/ current you get. Copper being positive steel being negative.  I got 1.5 v ac or around .9 v dc and i cant tell the current but its in the hundreds of micro amps, charges ac cap real quick....  I Found out two ideas that will help people.   First stick your copper in the ground, make an imaginary circle in your head using the copper as the center and plop the steel skrew in around the perimeter of this circle walk the whole 360 degrees and try the skrew in the ground every so often.  My conclusion is polar alignment deff makes a difference and produces more voltage and current give how the metals are placed... Doing it near tree roots also had a significant impact on current being higher but no real impact on the voltage.  If the freq of this ac power was fast enough, i guess my question is could i step it up to something useful, mabey just enough to make a small solonid motor with flywheel or alternator of sorts to make additional power. Ideas folks ? I haven't tried putting coils on the metal directly to try Stubblefield stuff i wanted to start basic but the crazy part is these two peices of metal can be separated like at least 10 feet and they still form a circuit, or register voltage on my meter, pretty cool. I also found out that i could run a battery in series, plus of battery to - steel screw, copper pipe to load + and the - term on the battery to the loads - terminal, still lit the led which means its deff possible to use the ground as a conductor of sorts at least across a reasonable space of land.

Weird thing.. my analog shack meter shows the ac while my digital doesent but when i tap the probe on the copper or steel  it registers a little....

This sounds like a great geology experiment.  I'm going to try this, hope you don't mind.  You can make your own compass by rubbing metal wire that's a good conductor against your leg, put it on a leaf on water and watch it point north/south (since we're talking about a wire) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/declination.shtml   
But watch the declination.   Thing is the Earth through convection (magma in the Earth) makes an electromagnetic field within.  The corialis force and this field causes magnetism of the Earths Iron rich plates.  They all have a polar direction too.  Look up magnetic declination for more info on this.  The Earth apparently has a 2nd electromagnetic field outside that sustains the Earth's inside electromagnetic field and protects us from harmful solar particles .  This Effect is known as the Dynamo effect.  There's an equation and law of Lorentz about this effect. http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/dynamo_effect.htmlsee
The energy of the Earth is magnificant..check out the volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and plate tectonics due to this energy force.  You might be just tapping into that somehow, but my knowledge on Physics is about as much as peanut butter spread on a pea plant when it comes to exact laws and equations, etc.  I'm still looking into it, but I'm going to ask my geology professor the question about the tree to see if he knows something.  I'll get back with you as soon as I can find out anything.  Keep us posted.

Cheers
Beck
BA student, Geosciences,GIS

Quote from: one on March 31, 2008, 01:08:08 AM
I got my  coil  finished  enough  to  test.

I still  have  some  things to do .   like  cut the  copper  winding  shorter.
I am going to  try to  match the  inductance with the  iron  winding .

I am going to wait  a few days ...........mostly because my thumbs hurt




I learned  alot about how NOT to wind  a coil ....

one of the  things  I wanted to test is   if  bigger wire is better.

I used   # 6 copper   
I got  some  Iron  wire for tying  rebar
I made a cable   with 12 strands .  It was a little oversized .. I think I would use 10 strands next time .

I am thinking that  larger wire  has less resistance .......so  the small  currents   generated  will carry through  easier . 
I was shooting  for  a cable of iron wire about the size of the insolated  copper
I wanted the  iron larger  because  it is higher resistance , ......

I see that my voltage is low compared to others .
I think that may  be in part that my outer windings are pretty loose .

If you can't  read the meter the voltage I got was  .54 V

Sorry about your thumbs. 
I'm confused.  Is the larger wire more resistance, or the smaller wire?
I found things went faster (setting up something to revolve around..did not measure output) when I used thinner wire, but I didn't think about the length of it.  However I remember someone else mentioning cutting the wire shorter and he got better voltage.  Do you mean by larger, thicker, or longer?  Or could it be both?
Are you wanting more resistance?  What does this achieve?
Interested,
Beck