@ Bill, Jeanna

Thanks for the warm welcome!  Bill I hope someday you can still visit the museum. I was sorry to hear about your friend also. Maybe someday you can visit and in his honor, I am sure he would want you to do that... So even if there are no earth batteries in there it might help to see what type of other materials he used in his experiments.... Also if you manage to find an address/phone number for the museum please pass it along

I found this link on NS. Mostly talks about the wireless radios but it is still a good read if you have not read it.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Nathan_Stubblefield

NS's relationship with Tesla and others is talked about. Also this little tid bit quote from Bedini I found interesting, addressing the "heat" produced by metals...

Bedini: Two highly polished metal mirrors, which faced each other, radiate a very great heat in rippling waves.If you take a piece of copper, and you polish it highly and then you take a piece of steel, and you polish it highly, and you face these two things together, so that there is a doppler-shift in the light, you get heat, you can actually feel it. So there is no reason, why we can't pull the energy right from the earth, and heat the house.

cool huh? I hadn't seen this before !!! Anyone tried anything like this? Might be worth an experiment or 2 ?

Joe,
ok, I've got some comments on the "make n' break" but I will post again in a little bit :-)

Regards
Steve

@Steve

Welcome and great.  talk to ya soon.   
                                                                 joe

Quote from: jeanna on April 26, 2008, 04:25:20 PM
I just made myself behave while I took today's readings.

By behave, I mean I was very systematic and I only turned on the dmm once at the beginning. then I put the clips of the probes to the various spots.

Yes I saw plenty of spikes.
So, I am convinced they are there at the beginning of the reading and not because the meter just turned on.

And they still resemble those curves I made pix of from Barry's coilgun site when the oscillations are almost there or not at all-but just one high point.

jeanna

Joe, I will check out that patent to see if that is what I was talking about. I pormise to remove anything misleading if I think it is. (for the same reason I jump on cotton cuz it is not in the patent and is misleading - I do understand the importance of not being misleading.  )
j

EDIT: No, that is not it.
I was talking about DC. When the DC (as in Edison ) generators turned on. I will still look, but I will also be in the yard today back n forth.

Jeanna
   Im going to be real.  I know waht you were reffering to the whole tesla story of him overloading the generators and it was for a completly different reason than you think. i mentioned the patent to give you a way out to just say yes but now im gonna be blunt. That has nothign to do with what were workign on with with this patent. Unless youd like to dicuss high voltage transietnt currents in the other thread i  see no relevance. please dont tell new comers waht to post here and what not to. And id like the folks in this thread trying to replicate to use cotton insulation because its worked the best thus far so were going with it. Ok if you want to push another view and back it up with higher readings please present it but unitll then id like folks not to get confused spenend hrs windign and get results like yours as opposed to some of the higher ones with cotton .
                                                                                                   Joe

@ Joe, everyone,

From one of Chad's previous postings ,

"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 think this was/is a really good idea for the "make n' break" device, very clean connections and you can control the RPM of the motor much easier to affect the frequency of the pulses. Joe, I know you were working on a relay based device previously for the "make n' break". Although this should work ok eventually you may find that the relay/contacts burn out etc. Also more difficult to control the on/off pulse frequency. I wasn't sure you were still going to use the relay device but I wanted to throw in my 2 cents. As a kid I experimented with using relays a lot and I burned many out by overuse. 

Joe I think you also figured out a lot about the "make n' break" device that was not in the patent so good going there. I was saying "yea man" many times when reading your ideas about it.  But one thing still bothering me a little bit, For one, if NS didn't talk about this device then "what else" wasn't mentioned in the patent or possibly further research proved otherwise. I'm bothered a little by the 2 supposedly "unused" primary contacts (10). Even though the patent says they were unused or left open he still made the effort to  bring them to the top of the coil exposed so that they could be accessed if they needed to be. ..

Ok, here is a theory, pure speculation but, If you do the "make n' break" just with terminals 5 & 6 you get a resulting field in the secondary, I can buy that just fine, but if you were to do a "make n' break" with 10 (so 10 "make n' break" to 10 opposite to when you "make n' break" 5 & 6 ) you would or should get an opposite force magnetic field in the secondary which would make it twice the original amplitude. Does any of this make sense ? Hopefully you understand what I mean. I'm just referring to the possibility of adding the 10's to the "make n' break" circuit but they would "make n' break" opposite to when 5 & 6 "make n' break"

So I'm not saying or even implying that this was done, - it may not even work - but It's just a thought, could it effectively not double the size of the field induced in the secondary? Again, just thinking out loud here, it may or may not make sense I realize.   

Regards
Steve

@Steve

Somethign to try deff. After the tests ive doen so far tho it shorts em if you do anything with the 10's.  Worth a try tho. Great idea with the reed switch too i hadent thought of that and it is much cleaner than contacts 
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