https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkbYBLM4Dc
This is video 5 in a series which investigates the possibility of the extraction of energy from the ground. This video investigates aspects of connecting the circuit (see video 2) to the ground.
The video also demonstrates the suggested use of a heavier wire instead of the earth. The other suggestion to try using the power supply negative as a ground creates a direct DC path which quickly damages the components.
fyi - It appears my access to this forum was recently blocked for an extended period (see attached image). If I stop posting here in the future then such blocking may have become permanent.
Hi radiant_one. Don't worry about the permission denied messages from this website. This website has had intermittent issues like that for quite some time.
I was getting the exact same error messages when I tried to connect yesterday. Maybe some administration or maintenance was being
conducted on this website at the time, or the website was just having issues.
Nice video. I would interpret the results a little differently than you, although I am not saying that I think my
interpretation is necessarily all correct, but I have tested with similar setups and based on my measurements the
power being drawn from the supply always appears to account for the amount of power dissipating in the LEDs.
The length of wire you connected in your video was not very long. In my own experiments, the wire gauge doesn't have to
be quite so heavy, but you should extend the virtual ground wire out to a length of about 20 or 30 feet or so to get better
results. I have found that even a 30 or 40 feet or so length of wire rolled up in a roll of about 1 foot diameter will work pretty well
to add a suitable amount of capacitance. As I have shown with my test with two LEDs with one end of the LEDs connected to just a short clip lead,
you can get LEDs to light with very little capacitance attached to them, but connecting to something with higher capacitance
such as a long heavier gauge wire, or a large block of conductive metal, or even when connected to a person's body can
work as well or almost as well as an actual earth ground connection. You may have to adjust the operating frequency to get best results
for a given amount of capacitance attached to the end of the LEDs.
A direct connection to earth ground appears to just provide a higher capacitance than a length of wire or a person's body. Since you are dealing
with an AC signal, as based on my tests there is a degree of resonance occurring, if you put a diode in between the LEDs and your capacitance source
such as a wire or whatever, then it will restrict or reduce the AC resonance occuring between the LED and wire. Resonance is typically an AC phenomenon in regards to
electrical circuits. So there is a different way to interpret what is occurring in the circuit without having to consider energy from the ground.
The fact that the LEDs will light about the same with various types of capacitance added to the end of the LEDs whether earth grounded or not
does seem to indicate that what is happening is not dependent on a direct earth ground connection to gain electrons from the ground or whatever.
All the best...