@ Jeanna:

Actually, where I live there is only one grid line going past here.  Where you see those 4 grid lines crossing is actually right about where Stubblefield's farm was located!!  (I am east north east of those intersections)

I noticed about Ed's Coral Castle (As previously mentioned) location too as my Mom lives near there.  This can't be a coincidence can it?


@ Jim:

Good to see you here mate.  I hope things are as well as they can be for you.

Bill

I posted my scope shots from today on the stubblefield thread, but I do want to report this:

I just got my new tiny meter for reading dc amps. So, I will add this here.
Plain EB - 35.7uADC (1/3 milliamp)
EB with 2 NS generators = 96.4uAdc  (almost one milliamp)
I think you are right about this, Bill. I am getting lower dc volts and more dcmA by adding the extra things on the ends. The amps seen on this meter are dc amps.

No wonder I cannot get even a joule thief to start up. I need one of those maximum caps from the gadget, I guess.

jeanna

edit:
JDMusicman,
Cool.
we posted simultaneously.

How excellent. .61vdc in bone dry for the first day sounds like a winner to me!

@ALL

Good news 

ZAC is back with his Mum n Dad.
Granddad/G-pah feels much betta.

Im off for the weekend to see my littley

hooroo all

Gpah jim

i cant get any coherent scope shots from my EB in this area.
im getting all kinds of interefernce
probably from the underground electrical and cable wires running all around here.

we have no overhead wiring in this neighborhood...

very slow division (50 uS+) i can get it to clean up a little bit
i put electrical tape over all the exposed wires, and ran the EB through an analog coax, that helped a bit, but im still picking up all kinds of garbage. 

i'll swap out my electrodes over the weekend, and see how that works out,..

@Smokey

I'm not sure if this is correct, but congrats on you getting your new scope, well done. 
The best thing to do, is just hook the probes up to the EB cells and then watch the waveform for a while, in a few days you will be accustomised to what seem to be garbage, but the "wriggling" is the stuff, well, you will know what I mean when the penny falls.

I've been bogged down making a shed, and its going to have lots of shelves too (jeannas good advice).

I found an electric winch at the dump today, looks like some bits like switches and lead wires are missing, but I can soon fix it up.

@Jeanna,
Wow, those 2 sesmic charts are whacko stuff, (no, not bad, its good stuff), I take it as read, the top chart is the one with the most activety, bottom is after things have settled down a bit.

I noticed you are getting u ma out of your EB setup.

I have to setup one of my CCD cameras under a glass pendulam clock cover, secure this on a bit of flat board, then mount it on a wooden pole or top of the house roof, point it west towards a storm.
Then capture the lightning flash and any scope image together, see if any readings are parallel or if one arrives before the other, etc.
Storm season is about a month away, winter is over, days are much warmer now.
 
I automatically have USGF earth quake activerty emailed to me, but only quakes from 5.5 and over,  otherwise it fills my email box to overflowing. This weekend alone there was about 25 quakes arrived from them.

jim
 

Hey folks,

I have added to my in ground EB ...
I added another setup 2 ft away from the copper/alum one ..

This one I took a 8" aluminum rod and done kinda like a stubblefield style deal I put cotton and a paper roll around the alum then wrap 10' of Stainless steel 1/6" thick cable around it ..
I had to wet it initially then I buried it ...
With that one and the first one wired in parallel I am getting .51 vdc at 2.01ma ..
This is the first day on it , I am hoping it will hold at 2 ma ..
Gonna keep check on it everyday , may even add some more ..

I also have plans to get a scope when I can afford one ..
I really want to see more of what is going on with this stuff .

I have noticed that voltage usually drops when it rains  and I still get better readings in the day than I do at night ..
And some days are better than others no matter how dry or wet the dirt is..

Can anyone tell me how far apart these things have to be to run them in a series without isolating them?

Thanks Jdcmusicman

Thanks Bill,

I was curious about , I hadn't attempted it yet ..
One thing that i did notice is with the 2 cells that I have , is when I intially put the second one in the ground I put about 1ft from the other and It would make the ma readings go way way down to almost zero..So I moved it over another ft and it works fine that way ..
I assume even having them in parallel if they are to close they kinda cancel things out , it had no effect on the voltage just the ma's ...

I have been reading a little on the telegraph stuff, with so little I have read so far , it is just amazing at some of the things they were doing back then...

Thanks  Jdcmusicman