Maybe some NEW info?

[DreamThinkBuild]

Hi Sm0ky2,

Thank you for showing your circuit and research. I built Nigel's circuit and did get it to work until for science I shut down the house mains breaker, to make sure I wasn't picking up any stray signal, and the circuit went dead. So not sure if Nigel ever tested with the mains shutdown or out in the middle of a field. Maybe I'm just in a dead zone for this.

My setup is like your six LEDs in series then folded in the middle. One side hooked to chrome shelf and then to a ground 10AWG copper which goes about 240~ft from the house. I did try different metals, copper plate, lead, steel, aluminum but it seemed like the best for my setup was aluminum on one ground and the copper ground on the other. I also can unhook from long ground and still make it work.

I noticed that there does seem to be some electrostatic/charge effect when you touch the metal ground, it gets bright shortly then quickly dims, when you remove your hand the intensity of the lights slowly builds back up.

I get around .7v-1.4v~ (fluctuating) measuring across from each ground with current around 10-12ua.

It seems to be some high frequency signal(?), the caps I used did charge slowly and it just passes through varying resistors with not much change in brightness.

I tried a bunch of different LEDs, the visually brightest on my setup being these:

Red Flash LEDs
VF:1.9-2.1
IF:20ma
Wavelength: 620-630nm
From this pack
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093GL1FFH

It's an interesting harvesting circuit but after seeing that killing the power to the house kills the effect don't think it will be much use in emergency situations. Maybe in a city you could scavenge power this way.

Would like to see more tests in a remote area away from civilization to confirm. If the signal creating this could be isolated maybe a circuit could be made to stimulate this effect and create a feed back loop.

[sm0ky2]

That is interesting that cutting power to the house stopped your circuit.
This was one of the first things i did, and the circuit still ran without anything
going on in the house.


Perhaps ,as mentioned by a user above, you may have a ground fault in your
home circuitry. (and could be why nigel had hundreds of volts)

When you are measuring voltage and current between 2 earth grounds
this is just the earth battery effect. I quickly switched to a single ground operation
using only the negative wire.

And i assure you, there was 0 volts and 0 amps measurable, even with 42 LEDs lit up

I was able to run one of these in a field in Kansas
far away from any power lines


Also successfully off of two different chunks of metal

[DreamThinkBuild]

Thanks Sm0ky2 for the reply. Since you tested in a field and still got positive results I know a place I can try with a field to make sure I'm just not in a dead zone. I get nothing here when the house power is off. I'll do some more tests, it is interesting circuit on how the LEDs light in this configuration.

@Conradelektro,

Have you tried with aluminum?, I didn't get good results from iron.

[seychelles]

ARE YOU CLOSE TO NINE MILE ISLAND?

[sm0ky2]

Thanks Sm0ky2 for the reply. Since you tested in a field and still got positive results I know a place I can try with a field to make sure I'm just not in a dead zone. I get nothing here when the house power is off. I'll do some more tests, it is interesting circuit on how the LEDs light in this configuration.

@Conradelektro,

Have you tried with aluminum?, I didn't get good results from iron.

So, if I understand this correctly:


Iron sits right about in the middle of the scale
It could act as either + or -, if you have something
on either extreme.
Steel acts as an ion source because of the carbon


Aluminum and Iron, therefore, would result in almost nothing.


Copper and brass act as ion sinks
Lead-brass can act as a source, which is why
Brass and lead-brass can work as a combo


As i show in a few of my videos: the circuit is immeasurable.
I can coax electricity out into capacitors,
and when doing so i am able to measure a voltage and
the charging current.
The power is in microwatts.


When i convert the photons into electricity using an
external pv cell:
The power is in Watts.
This is greater by a factor of 6