Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

[electricme]

Earth cells still working as I expected.
LED is still glowing since I upgraded my cells in a parallel series configuration about 3 weeks ago.

Had some storms activity yesterday, I had a scope on the EB C and was watching it, as lightning FLASHED, well it looked to me like the waveform seemed to shrink as the lightning appeared, then the waveform rebounded slowly back up to its previous level, very interresting this, pity I didnt do a TWV of it, just didnt think about that.

Last weekend I bought 6 meters of 3/4 inch annealed copper tubeing from Bunnings, its a single coil pack. I want to make up another EBC with this size and use a magnesium coated rod I bought.

Hope to get into making this new cell shortly, might make a start on it tomorrow.

BTW, the black box is a Instrumentation Interface for a PC sound card, bought this from Jaycar, its a twin channel input, twin output to display a scope pattern in the computer, I havent tried it yet, found out I dont have a joystick card in the PC, siiii well I can wire it up to a USB plug for the 5volts that is needed to drive it.

Now got to find and download some scope software to run the thing
So much to doooo.

Discovered I posted the wrong photo of the LED 1590, 1592 to 1593 are the corect ones, when sw is to the left or right, either LED is lit up
Sw in center position both are out, voltage has risen to 7.92v and as I post this off it has reached 9.67v OC no water in cells since last 3 days.

 
jim

[Pirate88179]

Jim:

Glad to see you.  Man, that is a lot of copper there, that with the mag. should really give a nice output I think.

Great to hear your cells are still running strong.  This is great news.

That is interesting about the lightning reaction.  That is not what I would have expected but, I am glad to know what really happens.

Take care mate,

Bill

[electricme]

@all,

I was thinking, what else can I use with the output of my EBC.

I decided to fool around with making a capacitor, nothing flash mind you, just a very simple arrangement, which I made out of ordinary easy to come by household items.

I grabbed 2 empty clear plastic A4 sleeves, grabbed my alfoil, the stuff we all have to wrap food up and stick in the fridge or stove.
I insurted one clear plastic envelope inside the other one, both openings facing outwards.

I tore off 2 sizeable alfoil sheets, stuck one alfoil sheet into one side of the clear plastic envelope, the other one I insurted inside the other envelope.

Next I connected my EBC leads to either sheet, it dosent matter which round it goes, but just keep an eye out for polarity.

I disconnected the EBC leads, immediately hooking up my white LED.
It flashed on for an instant and went out.
It was not bright, but very very dim.
If you are not fast, the charge flotes away.

BUT IT WORKED lol.


 

[electricme]

Its Cartoon time folks

What is electricme up to?

[jeanna]

Hi Jim,
I was reading somewhere but I dunno where...
It might only flash one or 2 times per day.

[edit : found it
http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=972.msg204504#msg204504
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I disconnected the EBC leads, immediately hooking up my white LED.
It flashed on for an instant and went out.
It was not bright, but very very dim.
If you are not fast, the charge flotes away.

BUT IT WORKED lol.



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Did you leave it in place out there?
I am thinking maybe there was a charge accumulation from all the activity involved in making the cap (I totally love that you made it all!).
Maybe you can set up a buzzer instead of a led. peizo buzzers take next to nothing to cause a sound and you do not need to have your eyes glued to the spot to see its period.

cool... I need to download stuff to watch your vid or else turn on my mac, but I am using this ubuntu computer so I don't need to use the mac here at ou...

thank you for this cool update.

jeanna