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The rod connections come straight out of the ground and into the house. Each pair, of 1 steel rod and a connection to the single copper rod goes to a blocking oscillator. So, in a way yes there are coils, but only for the LED driving circuits...same as a Joule Thief would have. I would dearly like to know how to sum them.
Pics of your setup would be cool, or a video, or both or all lol
So intriguing to hear of the output !
What it sounds like, is that you have a current throughput problem. As in, the voltage appears, the current is tiny but builds in caps. On connection to anything, the energy discharges and leaves you with the trickle of current, unable to continue past a blip of a strong output.
Ideally, this should be load matched, to the current coming in....which could be by using a transformer. Your voltage is high, but current low, so that can be changed to lower voltage, higher current. You'd need a stepdown transformer and i'm not sure of the exact windings etc. I would 'presume' it to be something like 1000 turns on the input, 100 on the output for a 10:1 change, minus core loss...but I really don't know.
However - an easy approach is to get a mains wall wart with a 120V to 12V transformer. You may find, that 18V in becomes a usable output through the transformer...worth a go. Alternatively, many tiny transformers on junk electronics run with lesser voltages and may be more suitable.
I'd say chip solution DC/DC converters likely won't work, because the input current is probably too low at the moment to drive them.
Check out the LTC3608, it might be possible: LTC3608 - 18V, 8A Monolithic Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Converter - Linear Technology
One possible scenario, is to stepdown the 18V to say 3V. Use that 3V, with its respective higher current to run a Slayer exciter. The wireless output of that could then power a mains lightbulb or charge batteries/caps much more effectively than the straight through energy would allow. You'd need around 20mA constant.Comment
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You broke that awesome sounding capacitor ?...heck, was looking forward to seeing that
Wrapping another wire over the top will induce and do the job
You can change the turns or wire gauge and tune it all up as experiments go along.
Yeah, the battery is probably trying to charge and does so slightly, then when the power is removed it sinks back again, giving the effect of a capacitor.
Completely unrelated, in a very related way, have you looked into converting that lead acid to alum ? Plenty of info in the Bedini Earth Light thread or, might I suggest my videos too (same name on YouTube). If the plates are damaged, you can reuse the negative plates, as only the positives decay into pieces. The negatives are highly likely to be in a good condition for reuse.
Underneath all the smileys and what have you on the right when you post, you'll see an area that says "Manage Attachments" within it. You click that and can upload pics
I think there's about 2mb storage, not a lot, so pics should be edited in a graphics prog, to be say 400x300 in size. I ran out of space ages back, so now post using Photobucket.
Videos are probably easiest with YouTube or Vimeo. If you don't want the world to see them and just people looking at this thread, then you could set them to 'Unlisted' on YouTube.Comment
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Oops no vid link there Gav.
What's your YouTube username ?
If you're having trouble, i'll go over there and link it from here. But all you have to do, is go to the video on YouTube as it plays and copy and paste the top browser line.
Another way is to go to your 'Video Manager' section, click 'Edit' under the video and copy and paste the vide link it gives.
The antenna not doing anything is a bit worrisome...how else is it to collect the positive energiy ? I hope your voltage isn't from mains interference...it trips up many folks. I've lit a 1W mains LED bulb before now off mains leakage and it had the voltage but no amperage to speak of.
Your coil pic looks good.
The steel drum sounds like a winner - you'll never know if you don't grab a shovel and start digging. You can beat the first frost if you do it now lolComment
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What ? Photobucket do videos ? LMAO, been using them for years and didn't know that
Ya know, even if your system was found to be using leakage from the mains at this point, it's not conventional induction. I think the argument goes that anyone would be hard pressed to say you were drawing anything from the house supply. Either which way, it's a good system there
Easy test, switch off the house mains. If it stops running, there''s the answer.Comment
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If your work area is anything like mine then that was a job well done therei found the paper i wrote the readings on from last nght
The day/night running differences are a good sign. My fence based one would do that, though I was only getting about 0.8V continuous and less than a mA.Comment
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