Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[Koen1]

Yeah, that sounds about right for the voltage of a simple
crystal radio... What diode are you using? A germanium one,
most likely, but there's different types still...
You might try adding a "Joule Thief" style enhancement to the
crystal radio circuit, see if you can increase effective output a little...
Or at least get more effective LED light out of the same output...
But that's just an idea.


As for my experiments, I have put my Hutchison Cells based on
Rochelle Salt etc on hold indefinately for lack of encouraging output
measurements. John H also refuses to reply to my emails, as
usual, so there's no advice from his side. I've had enough of that now;
JH says "I can make fire, and here's how you do it", so we study his
videos and texts, and we follow his instructions to the letter... and we
don't get fire. Then we contact him and ask for his advice, and radio
silence occurs.

So I'm back to my own research and that related to mr Reid's experiments.
Have been looking at powder mixes for baking at high temperatures,
specifically in the Cuprates- corner of the field (fyi, this is a more common name
for the new "room temperature" superconductors).
Interestingly, this borders the 'conductive ceramics' corner of the field, which
partially borders the field concerning material composition of certain pyroelectric
minerals, and at one corner even touches the field of vitreous materials (glass-
like "solid liquid" crystal matrices).
Just as the superconductivity effect appears to be the result of peculiar phonon
overlap and exchange due to the specific internal layer structure of the Cuprates,
where the placement and pattern of the atoms results in this remarkable "high
temperature" superconductivity effect, I strongly suspect it is possible to produce
a material where the specific placement, pattern, and types of atoms result in
one-directional room temperature conductivity, combined with thermal noise
rectification.
But I'm still working on it.

[sutra]

HI guys,
I'm also still on the issue but before building another cell, I'm trying to produce 20 KV DC at about 20KHz signal to "pole" the cell material.

I've found in internet that in the pizoelectric devices production, to "align" the piezoelctric crystal they submit the materials at such voltages for few hours during hardening.
My latest cell included also some graphite in the mix with a total components weight of 10Gr, it outputs a mere 30-150 mV (depending very much on the temperature thanks to the tourmaline) since a month even if kept shorted or connected to a resistor.

I'll keep you updated for future "discoveries", keep up the good job.

Cheers,

Sutra

[Pirate88179]

@ Koen1:

Here is a thought.  Why not create an e-mail account in the name of Paris Hilton..(like on hotmail, yahoo, etc.)..e-mail Hutch.....and after a little small talk, ask detailed info about his cell?  You never know, he might respond to that.... ha ha.

Sorry, could not help myself from suggesting this.

Bill

[ian middleton]

G'day all,

@Bill,   On yer mate      might just work.

@Koen,  I tend to agree, unless there is a specific ratio we are missing, the rochelle salt cells are disapointing. I've been tweaking the formulas of my more successful cells and I think I've come to a dead end. Still getting good voltages though.
At the end of the day it will most likely be a ceramic material that give the best results so start warming up that oven. 

@sutra, What advantage do see using a 20kHz high voltage pulse as opposed to DC voltage. It would be interesting to see the results of 2 identical cells, one polarized with DC and the other with 20kHz. Also is there a reason for choosing 20kHz.

I've managed to upgrade my polarizing voltage from 2.5kV to 6.9kV. I'll have some test results next week.

Keep up the good work guys

catch you later

Ian

[jeanna]

Nice avatar, Ian

jeanna