First electrical power output from a Pyramid

[Walter Hofmann]

Hi MT
what wetter do you have in regards to clouds , rain etc.?
greetings
walt

@walter
congratulations, great that you succeeded in replicating it. I'll concentrate now to build converter frame to get this effect also. I assume you followed skizze dimensions. A pic of your version would be of help here.

In the meantime I assembled simple galvanic cell in shape of one vertical tube of the converter see picture. Cell itself gives around 0.31V. As rod is used pencil rod HB type. Salt water injected 2mm below bottom of the rod as in converter. Putting it in the center of pyramid and measuring potential to the pyramide frame gives me 0 volts. Tried various positions to no avail. Only if I moved myself or something then I had some milivolts but they dropped to zero as I went still.
This shows me that effect is probably somehow related to the shape of converter. Vertical rods in the converter are not in center anyway only horizontal tubes intersect pyramid pyr. center line.

My frame looks like it has its own magnetic properties and compass forgets where north is. I moved compass only in base diagonals. In one diagonal it points toward closer corner so if I moved it from one corner to opposite it rotated 180degrees. In another diagonal it start pointing to closer corner and if you move it towards center it turns like 40degress and moving past center to the opposite corner pointer returns back to starting position. If pyramid is aligned with north and compass lying on the base in center it points somewhere to east. Explanation could be that while drilling I could magnetize tube locally. I noticed small pieces of iron sticked to the tube while drilling. Also cutting may added to it.

best regards,
MT

[MT]

what wetter do you have in regards to clouds , rain etc.?

... last days completely cloudy,  around 0, dry no rain from beginning of the week. Experiments done in basement 1.5m under terrain. Beton floor. And your weather? Maybe is somehow related...
Yesterday evening finished the converter frame 12cmx10cm. Need to just bore 2mm holes and place pencils (this time 6B type) + sand. How did you actually connected wire to those graphite rods? how long are your rods, pencils used or graphite electrodes? Maybe you said it already I do not remember. I plan to just use clips(see in pictures from prev experiment) to connect to pencils through T-tube side openings.
Last question is about soldering frame it is almost stable even without it. Have you solder it? I tried using candle fat and it closes eventual connection gaps pretty nice I plan to use it.

@georgemay
how is your convertor doing? Something unusual?

greetings,
Marcel

[Walter Hofmann]

Hi MT
yes my weather is cloudy too, my test is on ground outside 4 meter above sealevel.
I use copper clad electrodes 5/32 its very nice wire can be soldered directly to it. make the top that both T are 45 degree turned what means the middle opening connected with short piece of pipe and one opening straigt up this makes it easier for the rods to be hold in place, but first fill the bottom about the hight till the two holes then cover the holes ( or the sand will run out) be patient with filling the saltwater verry slowly then wait a while and let it soak because if it is to wet it will not work.
I did both soldered and not but solldered works better  just the two elbow, the horizontal and the two vertical the top portion is just stack.
greetings
walt

what wetter do you have in regards to clouds , rain etc.?

... last days completely cloudy,  around 0, dry no rain from beginning of the week. Experiments done in basement 1.5m under terrain. Beton floor. And your weather? Maybe is somehow related...
Yesterday evening finished the converter frame 12cmx10cm. Need to just bore 2mm holes and place pencils (this time 6B type) + sand. How did you actually connected wire to those graphite rods? how long are your rods, pencils used or graphite electrodes? Maybe you said it already I do not remember. I plan to just use clips(see in pictures from prev experiment) to connect to pencils through T-tube side openings.
Last question is about soldering frame it is almost stable even without it. Have you solder it? I tried using candle fat and it closes eventual connection gaps pretty nice I plan to use it.

@georgemay
how is your convertor doing? Something unusual?

greetings,
Marcel

[skywatcher]

make the top that both T are 45 degree turned what means the middle opening connected with short piece of pipe and one opening straigt up this makes it easier for the rods to be hold in place

Do you have a picture of this construction ?  I'm not sure if i really understood your description...

My current project status:

I have soldered the 'U' part of the converter (works very good with a 150W soldering iron and normal electronics soldering wire). Unfortunately the carbon gouging rods still have not been delivered to me so i also buyed some pencils to have at least something to experiment with over the next days. Today i searched for gypsum boards which are less than 2.5 m long so that i can transport them, and i found some which are 0.9 m x 1.25 m x 6.5 mm which is a pretty good size for cutting out the side walls of the pyramid.

So i have basically all material i need to finish the construction.

Total cost for material so far: about 100 euros. I hope the results will justify the expenses... 

[neptune]

Hi everybody. I have v6 replica 95% complete just need to fit graphite sand and water.  I think that the battery charging experiment by Georgemay could be very significant. More work is needed here to duplicate this, and try to improve it. We do not know if the charge comes from a voltage appearing across the terminals [unlikely] or from some sort of pyramid power effect on the chemicals within the cell. Georgemay used a Ni mh cell we could try other types of cell. we could try a physically larger cell. we could try putting a bundle of cells in all at the same time. Instad of pointing the positive terminal north, we could try south east or west. We could try attaching a large disc off metal [copper] to each cell terminal to "collect more energy. I intend to try all these things and more.
               Can someone help me here. If you look at the picture of a converter on page 1 of this subject, It appears to me that t the 2 graphite rods are connected together by the wire running across the top of the copper frame. Anyone agree/disagree?