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[vince]

@ Wattsup

I had a piece of 2 wire electrical cord handy so I did not have a ground wire present from the mains.  I used a copper wire that I have hooked up to the cold water line in my basement for the ground connection to the rectifier.  I often use this wire when I need a ground connection for experiments.

Vince

[poynt99]

Thanks for the info.

I tried what you said with my voltmeter on all three scales and the reading was always 0 like nothing was hooked up.  I tried it on some other things to check the meter and it gave readings in every other case.

You should try this. It will only take a few minutes to hook up and maybe you can give us your opinion.

Thanks
Vince

does your setup have the coil? is the output taken from the coil or the center wire/core, or both?

try it without the coil if the coil is there and let us know if it still works.

[wattsup]

@Vince

Did you try to put your ammeter on that ground line.

[poynt99]

Vince.

is this your setup?

[vince]

Yes.

I tried the meter on the ground connection as well and there is no current draw. The strange thing is that if you reverse the AC feed wire and use the other one it will not work. You would think that AC should not change on either wire but it does.

Vince