I think I might try using cloth first....
Herein lies the issues which I could not explain via conventional physics/electronics theory. There is definitely a mis understood property in these experiments as you have surmised.TB, That patent is weird, have you had any success with it ? He says that simply dampening the inner coil will produce the final voltage yet the iron and copper coils are insulated from each other ?? He talks of electrolytes but is this possible with the insulation. He is saying to use some cloth as insulation so is it truly insulated, maybe not..
I agree. ?In Stubblefield's era the typical arrangement for insulating wire was a cotton sleeve. ?If you can dig up some old motor winding manuals, etc. you will see the wire gauge listed with a designation of \"CC\" meaning cotton covered or \"DCC\" meaning double cotton covered. ?Certainly not an insulation as we know it but one that certainly explains the wetting of the inner coil. ?He simply caused a galvanic reaction between the wires. ?
I would be fascinated if any voltage came out of the inner core of this thing with proper insulation.. Have seen some really old motors with cloth insulation before. Theoretically no more than 2v should come from the inner coil...If it were fully insulated and producing electricity then we'd be onto some sort of galvanic corrosion meets quantum tunneling
He has basically created an electromagnet using a battery and tapped electricity from an induction coil around the body of the whole thing... ?
The only benefits I could see are where he hints at using the Earth as an electrolyte and this is where his device is tapping into natural fields to boost the magnetic field for final output, seems like the only way he could get a substantial voltage from it.[/b]
Numbersix,
You made a battery out of a potato? I've never heard of that. Tell me how that works and remember, I am a layman. Tell it elementary style. You are so smart!!
Virtualgirl[/b]
Doing a search on Stubblefield and carbon lamps I came up with this :
Stubblefield
TB.
More results to come soon, have finally caught up with my work and managed to survive the floods of Glastonbury (saw a free energy place almost every night but was shut and then could never locate it again in the day, wasn't meant to be I guess...) and now have a bit more time on my hands. I reckon I could knock up one of those Stubblefields' coil assemblies.
Am thinking two would be better to try and create a potential between the them, an interesting point in that link about the height difference, I have the perfect hill in mind to try it out with.
Am bored with measuring the volts on my two pipes, time to move onto the bigger and betterer
Bernard
Welcome, have a good read through the thread, there may be other points in a similar thread of TimeBenders', is linked in the first post. Everything you need is here or linked to, have a go yourself, it is well worth the effort of bashing two bits of pipe into the ground
My next plan is to set up a series of the junk pipe cells to get enough volts to power a 3v LED, I want to get a measurement of current from it. Made a 4v battery out of a small potato cut in 4 and some screws n wires, has been dimly lighting an LED for two days now. I couldn't get a readable current from it, presuming I am doing it right which I'm pretty sure I am. My neighbour grows them, in case you were wondering, and I was bored watching him dig...
Am getting a steady 0.9v from the two bits of pipe so I'm hoping that 4 cells will be enough to light the LED. It came out of a Solar Charged Garden Light which I bought a the local garage, will also experiment with charging the batteries from the Earth Battery instead of solar and see how long it lasts....
More info :
Someone trying, by the looks of it, the Stubblefield Cell
Some good reading here (search through the text for arc lamps)
Stubblefield Meanderings
In fact this Google Search turns up loads of references to the ability of the power for his lamps on his farm. There's some mention of them always being hung from old / large trees and the power being drawn off near the root...Hills and trees are going to be my next target...
Just one question : How does a carbon arc lamp compare with an LED on a physical level, it seems to me that an LED is creating an ARC also ?[/b]