First electrical power output from a Pyramid

[duff]

Duff

Thats something we don't really know for sure air or solid dielectric for the caps. I did back off on the screw and have set to 940pf right now. I used paper to keep plates flat. I will adjust it slowly each day and watch for changes. The only thing that I haven't used is 2mm graphic rods, but using pencil, I thought I would see a volt or so. I think if everyone trys something a little different we might get it. As for ground using my house ground. One thing I did notice if I bring my hand close to center cap the meter jumps up to 150mv or more, but did not touch it, so seems its picking up something. On DC I get nothing?

Sorry but I believe TT specifies an air dielectric.

Perhaps our German friends confirm this from sketch 3:
jeweil 1mm Plotten LUFT

Google translates as: Jeweil 1mm plotting - distance air


I don't know what your background is so excuse me if this is something that your are already aware of. Grounds can be a complex thing and there are  specs that need to be met before a ground actually qualifies as a ground, especially in electronic labs. Even hams go to great lengths sometimes to build good grounding systems.

Where am I going with this? Well this may be something that we are glossing over and it could be that the ground is what is going to make this thing work or not...

Happy Holidays!

[Chad]

guys dont think that the gypsum plasterboard could be the key here?.
It seems odd to me that this is to be used in favour of metals, but then
it might just make sence because gypsum plasterboard contains radioactive
materials like "Radium" wich decays into "Radon gas".

There seems to be 2 types of gypsum used in boards, one is natural gypsum
and the other is phospho-gypsum, the latter having the most radio active material
even more than granite!.

I dont think that boards in the USA contain phospho-gypsum, but they do in europe, uk, australia and japan.

Just thought id throw this in there as it may help you guys.

http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q25.html
http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Phospho-Gypsum.htm

chad.

[spacetrax]

In the Video TT posted two years ago, the fan he was using as load was running with one side of the pyramid being uncovered.

Yes, but TT said this year that the presentation that he did two years ago was kind of set up, including the part with the small magnet. I don?t believe that the pyramid works only with three gypsum sides, thus not achieving resonance conditions.

[tinu]

@Magpower,

Congratulations!
A very good shot indeed! Frustration fully understable too. Mine grows since 03Dec.

One question, though: Is the ac voltage surely coming from the core or from the pyramid? I?m asking because I have on ground a small 50Hz signal of 50-70mV at all times due to power lines (interference and surges). As small as it may be, 30mV can mean something if generated from the setup. But I couldn?t see it either.

@ all
After over a month, I?m close to put an end to this story which smells bad as every day passes. Not many materials (200-300Euros maybe) but the work that I?ve put in various trials was enormous. And given the Christmas holiday season, this was bad. (Is this a kind of habit around holidays? Remember Mike?s story/fake in the end 2006?). I?ll post several thoughts during the next days but for now, I?d like to hear opinions on the following quote: 'My "friends" at overunity.com kicked me out, and very strange things happened there too...?'- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pyramide-project/message/7 Tom, pyratom99.
What is he talking about?! What kind of strange things?! And, more importantly, who kicked him out?! I doubt this was the case?

Many thanks,
Tinu

[MT]

Hi guys,
Sharing my results. Last night finished converter see pic. After injecting saltwater, rods against copper frame gives each about 0.3V (this morning left 0.31 right 0.34). Placing it inside and measuring rods against pyr frame gives less than 1mV DC. Tried various heights and positions. Waited 1 hour until battery in DVM died. This morning measured AC this gives about 0.1V TrueRMS 50Hz. I could not find relation to the pyramide frame. Placing converter outside gives actually more ~0.14V TrueRMS also 50Hz. Connecting pyr frame to the socket ground gives more voltage ~0.14AC TrueRMS (with converter inside) but voltage is much less stable with frequncies 350-400Hz.

@walter
Also in my case no drop of water came of the second hole. Seems all goes up vertical tubing. Probably surface bonding of water molecules prevents it to leak from small 2mm hole. Maybe his had bigger diameter.

I would not call it success less than 1mV basically nothing and measuring AC gives me clearly induced 50Hz socket frequency. I'll play with it further hope to find time to place gypsum boards if family allows on this special day.

greets,
MT