Joule Thief

[xee2]

@ freepow

Hi, I live in a country property in the hills, This is what I have got so far...
Day-1   daytime volts = 6,    .13 ma
Day-1   night     volts = 5     .07 ma

Day-2   daytime volts = 6     .13 ma
Day-2   evening volts = 5.5   .07 ma
Day-2   night     volts = 5     .04 ma

My ground pipe is a galv-iron pipe placed in ground completely seperate from the house, as I put it in my self.

Any comments ?

How are you measuring the voltage? Is it the voltage between your antenna and the ground pipe? I have never seen an antenna put out that much voltage. That is an amazing result.

[stprue]

It is possible xee, my TPU where I can't hook it up right will still put out static 7-12vdc with a specific set up...a wrong set up of course!  I have also seen antenna set-up putting out like 12-15 on youtube!

[crowclaw]

Freepow

Some of Teslas work was based on the idea that the ionosphere is  charged  and the earth is  the opposite  charge.    If this is  true  then your wire might be acting  like  a capacitor.
One of  Teslas patents was about  an energy collector  that was mostly  metal  plates  suspended  above the ground .   I  remember  that the plates  were insulated and  he said the higher  they are the better they work .
There was several  variations  on the patent I believe that they all  had  a coil  and a cap  tuned for resonance .

Do  you have  some  sheet metal laying  around ?
A piece of  sheet metal  placed  horizontal  above the  ground  ( connected to your wire ) ( well insulated  from the ground ) as  high  as possible  may  give you  more power .

If I remember right  Tesla said that the setup in  this  patent  produced  energy all the time ........but more in the daytime .


gary

@ All.

Hi Guys, I find your work fascinating. I am an electronics engineer and have been experimenting on similar projects involving inductive power transfer. Just a word on suspended plates and antenna's. If you can suspend metal sheet plates, they will need to be well insulated of course. (glass is an excellent insulator) you have in affect a capacitor which will hold a static charge. The dryer the air the better, which becomes charged with +/- ions. Charged voltage can be quite high depending on several factors. The problem is the discharge currents are very low. This also applies to Antenna receivers and earth batteries that you are currently experimenting with. It's working towards gaining useful current of course well above just a few milliamps that we really need to achieve. If you are experimenting with long antenna's with resonant circuit components you are most likely receiving RF or 50/60Hz line buzz as already suggested. I'm probably mentioning ideas and suggestions that you are all familiar with  through your experiments. You can substantially increase a voltage across a coil winding by adding more turns, the down side is that more turns increases the DC resistance which reduces the available current! likewise fewer turns reduces the voltage but increases the current. Consider how an AC power transformer works and the ratio of it's windings. The primary matches the line input voltage and may have a resistance of several K with many turns, were as the secondary could have far less turns with a lower resistance of just a few ohm's but may be capable of delivering a few amps at a relatively low voltage, compared with only perhaps a few hundred milliamps drawn from the secondary winding. This is our goal, real useable power. Voltage combined with higher current. V x I = Watts.
Sorry rather long... keep up the good work.

Regards

   

[xee2]

@ stprue

It is possible xee, my TPU where I can't hook it up right will still put out static 7-12vdc with a specific set up...a wrong set up of course!  I have also seen antenna set-up putting out like 12-15 on youtube!

I think in those youtube videos the antenna is near high voltage lines or high power transmitter. In that case the antenna is more of a transformer secondary than an antenna.

[Pirate88179]

Xee2:

Or inductor?

Bill