Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[Localjoe]

Sorry jenna .. i never had my spike in a tree, just near the roots. bill had one directly inn a tree tho.  My stuff is burried at the end of my yard covered in snow so i will hope it holds up when i dig it out in spring.

[sid10]

Hello to everyone,
I've been lurking and studying patents for the last few day, weeks and have decided to try and wind a Stubblefield coil/battery. I got a 2 pound roll of .023 solid MIG wire from Harbor Freight. ($5.00) That works out to about 23 gauge according to Wikipedia. I've also got a 75' roll of 24 gauge magnet wire that has a insulating finish of some sort on it. Must be varnish or something like that. I'll wrap this on a 4" galvanized carrage bolt. I'll be using brown wrapping paper (from local butcher) to separate the windings. The plan is to follow the patent as closely as possible. I'll try and take as many pictures as possible as I go.
I think that it's finally going to quit raining at least for a while.
Does anyone know how deep Stubblefield buried his coils and if he used more than one if so were they oriented in any special way?
Sid

[MrSpates]

@sid10

Let us know how it works out, I'd be very interested myself. I thought about using MIG wire but figured it was too brittle for a small core. I'm on the 4.5 layer of my own where I'm wrapping a 1 inch by 2 ft. piece of copper pipe with 10 ga. aluminum wire from an electric fence, using plain brown shipping paper. I plan to wrap 10 layers. I'll try the aluminum wire by itself first then later I plan to try different kinds of wire. Have fun wrapping that thing, its slow going.

[sid10]

@MrSpates
I got the MIG wire at harbor freight, but saw reels of aluminum at Tractor Supply can't remember the price but was very reasonable. The MIG wire is anything but brittle I'll probably have to heat it to anneal it and make it less stiff this should also remove any coating it may have.  Although it seem not to have any real coating. It rusts fairly quickly if left in the rain. I'll be using some .25" plexiglas as the end caps.
Sid

[Pirate88179]

@ Hans:

Thank you for the explanation.  The patent looks like it is just a single layer of windings, do you agree?  Yes, I believe that Tesla and Stubblefield were more closely tied than most history books would have us believe.

@ Jeanna:

I tried the tree experiment after reading a post Joe put up about a new patent related to this.  I used 9 galvanized nails placed about 1/4 inch deep into the tree and tied them together with stranded copper wire.  From the tree, which was -, to the "ground" (+) I was getting about 1.25 volts dc.  The nails are still in the tree and still wired. I have not done anything with that for a good while.  There is a posted picture of that arrangement buried here somewhere.

@ Freezer:

Really?  Man, I am disappointed.  I thought it said like 89 vdc.  Maybe a typo on their part then.  Too bad.  I was getting really excited.

@sid10:

I don't think he placed them very deep and as for orientation of the multiple cells,  Hans put up some pictures and it does not appear that they are placed any special way.  I guess only experimentation will tell.  If they are operating as induction type coils, I can't see any reason n/s or any other arrangement would make and difference.  Just my opinion though.  good luck on your experiments.

@Mrspates:

Also, best of luck to you as well.

Bill