Free Energy From Diodes

[schuler]

  Hi.

I've being doing experiments with diodes. My experiments include LEDs and germanium diodes. My interest results from the fact that we are constantly immersed in an environment full of electromagnetic waves that include radio waves and light. I've decided to document my experiments in the hope someone may find them useful. It may be possible that my results are obvious to some of you. But that might not be the case to all of you. So, here we go.

My curiosity about diodes started when I first read about the "Diode Storm" work. It's about shielded diodes producing power. Because I don't live in an shielded environment, I've decided to do some experiments in an electromagnetic noisy environment. Pages regarding Diode Storm work disappeared from the website (maybe pages have been moved to another place). I hope the author hasn't been killed by powerfull corporations.

When I started to record 100mV, I thought my results were uninteresting. But then I discovered my results were not so bad when comparing to results obtained by others. I've tried a bunch of diodes and I've concluded that the winner is (the best diode is): well, you can have a look at my conclusions at:

http://schulers.com/jpss/estudos/diodes/

I hope you'll enjoy. 

JP

[gyulasun]

Hi,

Why do not you turn to so called photo diodes, designed specially for light convertion into electron current.
Here is a data sheet at random, this diode gives 430mV open voltage for a normal (1000 lux) light intensity:
http://catalog.osram-os.com/media/_en/Graphics/00042727_0.pdf  Farnell still has it (www.farnell.com).

Of course there are many other types, including photovoltaic (solar) cells.

Regarding your nice experiments and findings, I suggest testing diodes with glass or opac bodies that covered with dark paint against light: when you scrape off the paint you would find higher sensitivity.

rgds,  Gyula

[IotaYodi]

Interesting. I have a question on the use of a solar fence charger. This charger can operate for 2 weeks without sun. It is a 6 volt, 10 amp battery with a pulsed DC output at 1-second intervals with .15 joules and a voltage output around 8500 volts. Could this be used with high voltage diodes to produce a few amps?

[schuler]

Dear gyulasun,
Thank you for the ideas. I'm including them in my  shopping list  .

I'll include them in my next batch of experiments.

[gyulasun]

Interesting. I have a question on the use of a solar fence charger. This charger can operate for 2 weeks without sun. It is a 6 volt, 10 amp battery with a pulsed DC output at 1-second intervals with .15 joules and a voltage output around 8500 volts. Could this be used with high voltage diodes to produce a few amps?

Hi,

You surely know Joule is Wattsecond i.e. 1 Watt power is used in 1 second.
You wrote  .15 Joule which then means 150 milliWatt in second.
If this  .15 Joule is the energy fed into the fence and the 8500V means the voltage level associated with this energy to give a certain (small) shock to the animals, then the current involved for 1 second is I= .15/8500=1.76*10^-5 Amper i.e. 17.6 microAmper and this repeats in 1 second intervals.  So no chance you could get Ampers from this output. 

If you could charge up high voltage capacitors with this 8500V (which certaily could take some time, depending on the caps value), then you could store some accumulated energy like in a photoflash cap and use it for higher current when you discharge the cap. In this case the higher current may mean Ampers too but then the stored energy is used up much rapidly than the charge up time was, so no free lunch... (ideally say for a hypotetical math example you charge up a cap to 8500V in 10 seconds with your consequtive output pulses and then if you disharge it in micro or milliseconds you get the high currents but this consumes the charge and another 10 second chargetime should come to repeat this process).

(see Nikola Tesla on this here http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/nt_on_ac.htm#Section_4  where the Counsel asked him on "using several thousand horsepower put into a condenser, you could take out of the condenser a million horsepower".)   
The bottom line is the power fed into a capacitor under a certain charge up time (i.e stored energy will be Watt times the second) can be taken out in a much shorter time to get a much higher power. You simply consume the inputted energy in a much less time you spent for the charge-up.

rgds,  Gyula