Hi Sm0ky2,

Thank you for showing your circuit and research. I built Nigel's circuit and did get it to work until for science I shut down the house mains breaker, to make sure I wasn't picking up any stray signal, and the circuit went dead. So not sure if Nigel ever tested with the mains shutdown or out in the middle of a field. Maybe I'm just in a dead zone for this.

My setup is like your six LEDs in series then folded in the middle. One side hooked to chrome shelf and then to a ground 10AWG copper which goes about 240~ft from the house. I did try different metals, copper plate, lead, steel, aluminum but it seemed like the best for my setup was aluminum on one ground and the copper ground on the other. I also can unhook from long ground and still make it work.

I noticed that there does seem to be some electrostatic/charge effect when you touch the metal ground, it gets bright shortly then quickly dims, when you remove your hand the intensity of the lights slowly builds back up.

I get around .7v-1.4v~ (fluctuating) measuring across from each ground with current around 10-12ua.

It seems to be some high frequency signal(?), the caps I used did charge slowly and it just passes through varying resistors with not much change in brightness.

I tried a bunch of different LEDs, the visually brightest on my setup being these:

Red Flash LEDs
VF:1.9-2.1
IF:20ma
Wavelength: 620-630nm
From this pack
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093GL1FFH

It's an interesting harvesting circuit but after seeing that killing the power to the house kills the effect don't think it will be much use in emergency situations. Maybe in a city you could scavenge power this way.

Would like to see more tests in a remote area away from civilization to confirm. If the signal creating this could be isolated maybe a circuit could be made to stimulate this effect and create a feed back loop.

Thanks Sm0ky2 for the reply. Since you tested in a field and still got positive results I know a place I can try with a field to make sure I'm just not in a dead zone. I get nothing here when the house power is off. I'll do some more tests, it is interesting circuit on how the LEDs light in this configuration.

@Conradelektro,

Have you tried with aluminum?, I didn't get good results from iron.

Thanks Sm0ky2 for the reply. Since you tested in a field and still got positive results I know a place I can try with a field to make sure I'm just not in a dead zone. I get nothing here when the house power is off. I'll do some more tests, it is interesting circuit on how the LEDs light in this configuration.

@Conradelektro,

Have you tried with aluminum?, I didn't get good results from iron.

So, if I understand this correctly:


Iron sits right about in the middle of the scale
It could act as either + or -, if you have something
on either extreme.
Steel acts as an ion source because of the carbon


Aluminum and Iron, therefore, would result in almost nothing.


Copper and brass act as ion sinks
Lead-brass can act as a source, which is why
Brass and lead-brass can work as a combo


As i show in a few of my videos: the circuit is immeasurable.
I can coax electricity out into capacitors,
and when doing so i am able to measure a voltage and
the charging current.
The power is in microwatts.


When i convert the photons into electricity using an
external pv cell:
The power is in Watts.
This is greater by a factor of 6

@Sm0ky, I tried outside in field with an old electric fence line as ground and at night to make sure I could see any faint light but didn't succeed at getting it to work. The house is the only place it works consistently.

If it's working on your end maybe a grow light could be rewired?
Something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/WEEGrow-Spectrum-Equivalent-Succulents-Seedlings/dp/B09CYR2QGN

@Conradelektro, I do get it to work inside but outside nothing. The humidity has been elevated due to recent rain I don't know if that factors into it.

Moving along:




https://youtu.be/2i_Dge3xpfE

Smoky2
I read about this effect a couple years ago but never got around to testing it...
https://phys.org/news/2012-03-efficiency.html
LED's efficiency exceeds 100%

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that an LED can emit more optical power than the electrical power it consumes. Although scientifically intriguing, the results won’t immediately result in ultra-efficient commercial LEDs since the demonstration works only for LEDs with very low input power that produce very small amounts of light.

In their experiments, the researchers reduced the LED’s input power to just 30 picowatts and measured an output of 69 picowatts of light - an efficiency of 230%.

I believe this effect may relate to the fact that an LED can generate a voltage when exposed to light like a solar cell. It is a PN junction similar to a solar cell or photodetector. Thus under some operating conditions the LED could dissipate and generate energy in the same instance.

Strange isn't it, many still believe COP>1 is impossible and yet here we have some credible proof it isn't. Just as interesting is this claim...

This light-emitting process cools the LED slightly, making it operate similar to a thermoelectric cooler. Although the cooling is insufficient to provide practical cooling at room temperature, it could potentially be used for designing lights that don’t generate heat.

Most FE researchers have heard of many different devices becoming cooler during operation contrary to the hallowed law of entropy. Here we have more evidence to suggest a process can have a COP>1 and produce cooling corroborating past claims. Apparently COP>1 isn't so difficult after all...

Regards
AC

Smoky2
I read about this effect a couple years ago but never got around to testing it...
https://phys.org/news/2012-03-efficiency.html
LED's efficiency exceeds 100%

I believe this effect may relate to the fact that an LED can generate a voltage when exposed to light like a solar cell. It is a PN junction similar to a solar cell or photodetector. Thus under some operating conditions the LED could dissipate and generate energy in the same instance.

Strange isn't it, many still believe COP>1 is impossible and yet here we have some credible proof it isn't. Just as interesting is this claim...

Most FE researchers have heard of many different devices becoming cooler during operation contrary to the hallowed law of entropy. Here we have more evidence to suggest a process can have a COP>1 and produce cooling corroborating past claims. Apparently COP>1 isn't so difficult after all...

Regards
AC

Thank you for this!
This paper sort of explains some of what i was observing
Until i read that, i almost felt silly suggesting that the LEDs could be overunity
But that IS the apparent observation

It might be worth exploring.
The same technology that makes those superbright led’s
Also is contained within those yellow square ones of higher power
And from what i can tell,
The LED ‘produces’ a voltage close to it’s nominal rating.
In my case was 2V, Nigel said his were 3v in one of the early videos