Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[electricme]

@ALL

Good news 

ZAC is back with his Mum n Dad.
Granddad/G-pah feels much betta.

Im off for the weekend to see my littley

hooroo all

Gpah jim

[jeanna]

Well Bill,
I think you called it!

I was feeling a certain 'heady' feeling I have been getting a lot lately and I thought to look at the eqpage.
Wow 10 minutes before there was a 1.9 in the mountains NE of me.
It was in the cascades in 'cedar butte' if you want to look it up.

OK, so I grabbed my stuff and told the rain to hold off for a while , which it did.
I only took a couple of regular shots then found the resolution that is showing the spikes.
They are regular. Even so, a little hard to catch at the spot.

Wanna see them? Of course you do.
I will crop them so they are good to see and be back.

jeanna
Oh after I did this I took some of that speaker wire and hooked it to the dome and the amps rose to 200uA.
I will see if I can show you anything about that.

I made a movie.
Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJoPspdYyYU

[sm0ky2]

i cant get any coherent scope shots from my EB in this area.
im getting all kinds of interefernce
probably from the underground electrical and cable wires running all around here.

we have no overhead wiring in this neighborhood...

very slow division (50 uS+) i can get it to clean up a little bit
i put electrical tape over all the exposed wires, and ran the EB through an analog coax, that helped a bit, but im still picking up all kinds of garbage. 

i'll swap out my electrodes over the weekend, and see how that works out,..

[jeanna]

Hi everybody,
While Professor Lewin buffers (mm great lectures!) I want to show you the official seismogram of yesterday and today at about the same times.
I guess this is right on, Jim. It is measured in microvolts per division too!!

I found it here for my area, and I think there might be links to other places in the world too.
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/SMO_N/ATES_SHZ_UW.2009081412.html

here is a pic of yesterday and today. Pretty big difference. And there was another one today in the night magnitude 3 this time but under the water off Portland.

jeanna

[electricme]

@Smokey

I'm not sure if this is correct, but congrats on you getting your new scope, well done. 
The best thing to do, is just hook the probes up to the EB cells and then watch the waveform for a while, in a few days you will be accustomised to what seem to be garbage, but the "wriggling" is the stuff, well, you will know what I mean when the penny falls.

I've been bogged down making a shed, and its going to have lots of shelves too (jeannas good advice).

I found an electric winch at the dump today, looks like some bits like switches and lead wires are missing, but I can soon fix it up.

@Jeanna,
Wow, those 2 sesmic charts are whacko stuff, (no, not bad, its good stuff), I take it as read, the top chart is the one with the most activety, bottom is after things have settled down a bit.

I noticed you are getting u ma out of your EB setup.

I have to setup one of my CCD cameras under a glass pendulam clock cover, secure this on a bit of flat board, then mount it on a wooden pole or top of the house roof, point it west towards a storm.
Then capture the lightning flash and any scope image together, see if any readings are parallel or if one arrives before the other, etc.
Storm season is about a month away, winter is over, days are much warmer now.

I automatically have USGF earth quake activerty emailed to me, but only quakes from 5.5 and over,  otherwise it fills my email box to overflowing. This weekend alone there was about 25 quakes arrived from them.

jim