Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[mscoffman]

@das

Once you evaporate off any water the cells will be fairly high impedance
so you can use very low current high voltage sources. They use
same sources for making electrets. Using a CRT power supply
is one way. It needs care to avoid HV shock hazard but is not
difficult. These are not high current devices. If you burn'em out
or melt or arc the contents...that is not goal. The goal is to get the
impedance (resistance) in the cells lower (without ions) so the cells
can conduct more current but still get the polarized domains aligned
without shorting out the polarizing HV too much and using a lot
of power in that phase. So as usual, it is a sensitive trade off.
A breakthrough might occur if these device could be switched-
moded during construction...That's for the future.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[jeanna]

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You are going to have to explain to me who or what Julia Child is.

Julia child invented the cooking show. see "the french chef" on pbs in the states.

And I get a lot of boosts.

@Bill: I'm running some tests with a cell and a JT, hopefully I'll have a better answer for you soon.
The JT makes the cell do some strange things, stuff I did not expect. The cell is sitting at 0.45V but the LED is flashing at about 10Hz. It's been doing that for over 24hrs now. I was hoping for a constant light but each cell I've tried makes it flash. Any ideas?

My take is similar to Bill's, but in the mA department...  just too little but only by a fraction.
I say this because when a battery is very close to its last breath it will flash the led then die, but with a bit of recovery micromoments it will regain enough to flash again.
with a AA this can go on for several hours.

To me, it means you are very very close.

Well done,
yikes
I need to catch up and fast!

jeanna

[ian middleton]

G'day all,

@ jeanna and Bill:
I put the scope across the JT and found the the 10hz pulses were in fact bursts of 33Khz. The JT was doing the right thing. Also silly nuts here didn't use a current dropping resister between the cell and the base of the transister. This meant that the battery voltage was always going to be clamped at around 0.45V. I use a BC 547.  Well anyway it's still flashing.

Today I made a new type of cell, I may as well call it the "Hybrid".  It's a normal Al tube but I've potted a JT coil into the matrix with the +ve electrode running through the center of the toroid.
The only thing is that the mix had to be poured in a wet state and will need time to dry. When thats done I'll build the rest to the JT around it and see what happens. I'm hoping the JT coil will act as an exciter coil for the matrix. No harm in trying. .
The other thing with this mix is I took 4 hours to reduce the pH down to 7 as apposed to doing it in one hit. I read somewhere that a slower reduction rate makes for more consistant silica size.

I'll keep you posted on how good ( or not) this cell turns out.

Keep up the good work guys.
catch you later.

Ian

[mscoffman]

@ian

The voltages you are talking about are just too low for silicon
transistors to operate reliably/effectively. "germanium transistors"
on Google shows a disaster area, but this link still has some;

http://www.datasheet.org.uk/manufacturers/1434/1.html

Click on these device numbers for claims of multiple manufactures.
GPD was buying up all of the manufactures design files for all
germanium semiconductor devices.

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Put an electrolytic or tantalum capacitor >100uf across
the crystal battery. The impedance of the capacitor
is minimal but will mathematically average the voltage
from battery. If the voltage still pulls down the average
energy out of the battery is too low for what the circuit
wants. These values are beyond the normal JT operating
parameters and component values may require careful
tuning but afterward the circuit should work.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[das aloda bullspit]

right  ive tried a mix of my own that is similar to the pyrite cell but with two differences...
.repalced pyrite with tantalum and a miniscule amount of germainium
.alsoI used some agate and tourmaline..
I couldnt get the voltage battery charger generator working so i used a van de graaff gen that i mae when i was in science class when i was at school.. it has been better that i expected but there has been problems wioth the reading..one minute it was 2.15 volts for welll.1 and a half mins then it went to 6h volts? i think i may need a new voltage reader so that may take a while. i havent been able to take any pics at the moment but i will if i can get my computer to go a day without crashing...if............i.....can
Thankyou Please
.......B..........