Ion power group.

[antimony]

You are doing exceptionally well, and you have only just started. There is about 100V per meter above ground, so 1000V is within reach. Be careful and don't get electrocuted. At the speed you're going you should be able to power LEDs soon. May the force of graphite be with you.

Yeah, i was glad to start out with such a bang and that made me want to explore this even more. My antenna is at about 4-5 meters height, indoors. So the next step i thought was to get the antenna up higher.
I don´t have a drone, or access to a balloon, so i was thinking that i would try to use a kite, but i will have to make the antenna as light as possible, so it will be able to take off, and stay up.

I have started to read Hermann Plausons patent again, and i am thinking about how i can combine these things that i have learned about graphite, with Plausons circuits.


I made some conductive graphite plastic that i smashed out and that i have used as an antenna for a couple of days now, and that works very well i just try to scale up it a little bit i think. I am working on it.

I made two lengths of coaxial cable antenna a few years ago that i was thinking about trying to pick up and get going with.
When i first made it, i got a reading from the antenna, but it didn´t function as well as i wanted it to, so i stuffed it away.
Have you tried the coax antenna?

I have to end it here becouse the kids are harassing me.

Thanks mate

[pomodoro]

I'm working with another two chaps so I can't tell all, but our best achievement was to reduce the antenna area from one square meter to less than one square cm and yet produce over 20x the power at the same 4m height. That's a gain of at least 200,000 based on area.
I'm not going for height because balloons etc are only good for experiments not for practical applications. At 4m about 400V is the limit you can get during fine weather, I'm not sure what will happen during stormy weather.
I have not used coax as I'm not sure how it could be used in my setup.


A kite would be ideal for your experiments. Simply spray with graphite and use a thin copper wire loosely wrapped around the cotton string to send the power down to a HV cap of a few uF.  The other end of the cap needs grounding.  Don't joke around though, touching the copper wire after charging the cap could stop your heart. Get someone to measure the cap voltage with a 100M probe every now and then.


I found balloons of small size useless as they can't lift much wire and are very fiddly  even in small wind situations.


Good luck experimenting.

[telecom]

IMHO it may be beneficial to cover the surface with a sharp pins, even better to dope the tips
in some kind of a radio active material, similar to a welding rods.

[telecom]

I have absolutely no idea how they got this patent on something which was described numerous times in the past.
Does novelty no longer appliy?

[antimony]

I'm working with another two chaps so I can't tell all, but our best achievement was to reduce the antenna area from one square meter to less than one square cm and yet produce over 20x the power at the same 4m height. That's a gain of at least 200,000 based on area.
I'm not going for height because balloons etc are only good for experiments not for practical applications. At 4m about 400V is the limit you can get during fine weather, I'm not sure what will happen during stormy weather.
I have not used coax as I'm not sure how it could be used in my setup.


A kite would be ideal for your experiments. Simply spray with graphite and use a thin copper wire loosely wrapped around the cotton string to send the power down to a HV cap of a few uF.  The other end of the cap needs grounding.  Don't joke around though, touching the copper wire after charging the cap could stop your heart. Get someone to measure the cap voltage with a 100M probe every now and then.


I found balloons of small size useless as they can't lift much wire and are very fiddly  even in small wind situations.


Good luck experimenting.

I have also found that the smaller the paper used for the antenna, it seems like the better performance. I first made one that was about 1" x 4" that i was blown away by, and then i tried to make a few larger ones that didn´t perform nearly as well.
I haven´t tried one as small as your smallest one, but i will surely do it soon.

I haven´t gotten the coax to function as an antenna yet, so i will put it away again.

Yeah, i haven´t actually tried the kite yet, but i don´t think it will be a problem getting something out of it, but i am thinking about how to do it in the best possible way, and the safest.

Thanks for your help mate.



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IMHO it may be beneficial to cover the surface with a sharp pins, even better to dope the tips
in some kind of a radio active material, similar to a welding rods.

Yeah, i have read about that, but i am not sure where i would get the Radium from, or if i would feel safe working with that stuff in my garage.