@picowatt

I understand very well the present beliefs. This explanation has been used so many times but under any logic base it does not correlate. It is very common and normal since you guys do not have any higher level of logic to base it on so of course this is all you have to go by. I respect that and appreciate you bringing it forth so it does not come from me. But deep down, you cannot really expect that hot current is coming in from every half cycle via the ground and neutral.

Nope. Mine was a slide valve setup--one rod,and two gears--thats it.
You make the slide and seats from the same material that the valves and seats are made from.
The counter weight fitted to the drive gear is the same weight as the slide rail,and so maintains balance.

The more efficient your ICE is,the less emissions you have.
Take a more efficient valve train(such as mine),where it takes less energy to drive the valve train it self. That means less fuel used for the same amount of mechanical power going to the wheels.
Less fuel= less emissions to do the same job.

They may be improving in emissions output,but they are not to interested in efficiency--there all in cohorts with big oil,and regulated by the government.
I seen it happen first hand here in Western Australia with Ralphs orbital engine.Designed and built just 160km up the road from me. This ICE was 50% smaller than any other ICE for the same power output,and 35-50% more efficient. Ralphs biggest mistake was taking on BHP as a partner,who finally got Ralph to sell up to them,and then BHP shelved the project

Ralph is now into large realestate deals,and worth over 700 million.
He also still makes great amounts of cash from his fuel injection systems that are fitted to most 2 stroke outboard motors today.

Any car maker that waffles on about how fuel efficient there cars are--are full of shit.
Guys in there back yard workshops were killing todays fuel efficiency 50 years ago.

It's all about money,and there all filling each others pockets--not ours.


Brad

Just as I have stated several times.  However, the neutral returns to the transformer center tap via a dedicated wire, not thru the Earth. 

SWER systems in other countries (and parts of Alaska) do use the Earth as a current carrying conductor.

Neither system disproves the existence of electrons...

PW

@ TK

phototransistor is more accurate, if you can place it in a good spot.
I don't trust PV's for light measurements,
they are consistently inconsistent

luckily for us, both components can be found in many garden solar lights.
along side a superbright, and a charging circuit.
  [note: some Chinese companies hide the charging circuit inside a small black dot of epoxy resin]
          [ it is basically a two or four diode rectifier and sometimes a resistor, that feeds to the battery]

There recently began emerging some fancy cells, that have the sensing unit built into the cell, where you can't even see it, or remove it as a separate piece. From the same Chinese companies....
It seems they don't want us taking them apart and using it for other things....

TK

Now remove the 1k resistor,and try again.

Brad

Now we get into the meat of the matter.   

When the 1K resistor across the LED is removed, the LED goes out.

But when I replace the resistor with a 2.2 uH inductor (DC resistance about 0.8 ohm) , the LED comes back on.