@0ne & All

I tried this last night before going to bed using a pair of magnets out of old hard drives I had handy, it was closest thing to a horse shoe magnet I had at hand, and using a PCI slot cover from the back of an old PC for the metal piece.  At first I wasn't getting any reading other than a few mV.  Then I touched it to try and position it better and it jumped to 0.34 V !!!  I figured it was the moisture in my fingers so I got a bit of filtered tap water and moistened the computer paper between the magnets and the metal slot cover and the voltage started going up from 0.01 all the way up to over 0.55 V !!!

At that point I had to go to bed to get up early so I hooked it up to a 470 micro Farad 25 V capacitor, when I got up this morning it was still  0.55 V

So it looks as though strong magnets work also  

The funny thing is that tonight when I got home I tried putting 3 sets of these magnets side by side but it did nothing, no voltage, then I took them off except for the one and moistened the paper and it jumped up to over 0.60 V this time, not sure if it's because the magnet was changed position slightly, residual magnetism or galvanic reaction. Here's the kicker though, I left it as it was and as the paper dried off it dipped down to 0.42 V at it's lowest then started climbing back up, it's been sitting between 0.58 to 0.62 V every time I attach the DVM to check it !!!

There's definitely something going on and the paper is a lot drier now, not counting relative humidity of course which I have no clue what it is in my house right now but the weather web site closest to my area is now saying 45.0 %, it's now sitting at 0.60 V.

Anyways, thought I'd let you know what my results are.

PS:  I would really love to show you a picture of it but I can't get it under 65 Kb and I don't have any program other than MS Paint to edit it

Regards,
Paul

    To any one:
 From House Painter;
    There is nothing wrong with"rediscovering" old ideas, just remember , they were already tried.

@0ne & All

PS:  I would really love to show you a picture of it but I can't get it under 65 Kb and I don't have any program other than MS Paint to edit it

Regards,
Paul

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@Goat,

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Groundloop.

I checked  Ebay  for  magnets  that might  be good for testing this .............they didn't have anything even close .



gary

@All
You all may like to see some old work on the TMB or Thermal Magnetic Battery www.stifflerscientific.com/tmp.asp

Thanks

I checked  Ebay  for  magnets  that might  be good for testing this .............they didn't have anything even close .
gary

How about this:
http://search.ebay.co.uk/neodymium_W0QQcatrefZC3QQfromZR2
(You will need to go to your national Ebay)
Paul.

Hi, just want to show you my setup.

My highest voltage i get from a simple aluminum foil instead of the "keeper". And i use simple quader magnets. 500 - 600 mV from one magnet. The aluminium foil tripled the voltage instead of the magnetic keeper which gives me ~200mV. Just put the neo-mags on the dielectric (wet kitchen paper).


I put 3 in series and got 1,4 V. The cylindrical magnets on the quader magnets are simple to hold the wires for the series and gives no gain.