Someone has been emailing about some interesting electrolytic capacitor experiments. He's placed magnets around an electrolytic capacitor. He believes the data logging graph shows an increase in *DC* voltage, but when I look at the graph I only see a momentary pulse / hump in the graph, not DC. It's difficult to tell ...
2010-07-13 22:21:07
People have asked how the diode, piezo, electret, and electrolytic capacitor experiments could help the small guy because they can't make a diode array made of trillions of nanoscopic diodes. Ah, but you can!!! That is exactly what John Hutchison and Marcus Reid have been doing. Every time you mix two ingredients ...
2010-07-13 15:02:10
Some great / interesting news for the electrolytic capacitor experiments. The refrigerated electrolytic capacitor has been producing a positive voltage since late yesterday. This morning it was producing even more positive voltage. :-D Also the DC voltage produced by the 3 x 100 uF with 11 Mohm load is still slowly ...
2010-07-13 14:49:52
Yesterday was spent on fixing my car breaks, but here are some measurements taken from this morning. 2010/7/12 3 x 100 uF, 11 Mohm, 72.9 F, 1.2 mV = 109 pA 1 x 100 uF, 132 Mohm, ~ 36 F, -2.9 mV = - 22 pA The 3 in-parallel electrolytic capacitors have shown signs of slowly decaying. The temperature is a bit higher from ...
2010-07-12 15:23:08
It's still difficult to tell, but it appears the 3 X 100 uF connected to 11 Mohm has decayed down a lot, as expected. I'm expecting it to decay back down to what a 1 X 100 uF would produce. Also, close to 24 hours ago I placed the 1 x 100 uF w/ 132 Mohm load setup inside the refrigerator to see the effect. Here's all ...
2010-07-11 16:06:08
Here's an improved graph of the old electrolytic capacitor measurements where the temperature trace is mapped to the secondary y-axis on the right side. This makes it easier to see the changes in ambient temperature. ...
2010-07-10 17:39:09
The following data is for the 3 X 100 uF electrolytic capacitor with 11 Mohm resistor setup. 2010/7/9 09:53, 69.8 F, -1.0 mV = -91 pA 10:39, 69.9 F, 0.0 mV 12:17, 69.7 F, 0.7 mV = 64 pA 14:32, 70.9 F, 1.3 mV = 118 pA 16:28, 72.1 F, 1.8 mV = 164 pA 19:21, 72.3 F, 1.9 mV = 173 pA 22:29, 72.4 F, 1.6 mV = 145 pA 2010/7/10 ...
2010-07-10 17:15:51
Late yesterday and today I've been taking measurements on the old electrolytic experiments. They're looking good. There was one electrolytic capacitor that used to be disturbed, the 0.47 uF connected to a 22 Mohm resistor, but it is now undisturbed. :-D It's producing the same DC current & voltage as the other ...
2010-07-09 17:04:08
2010/7/8, 10:47, 69.8F, the ED #2 was producing 12 pA. The only good news is that the lab is colder, but the current has increased, but by only a small amount. This thing is limping on one leg. ...
2010-07-08 17:55:39
2010/7/7, 20:10, 72.4F ED #1 was producing a positive current of 52 pA. I decided to build another setup called ED #2. ED #2 has now replaced ED #1. 2010/7/7, 20:49, 72.6F ED #2 was producing -52 pA. 2010/7/8, 20:49, 07:24, 70.4F ED #2 was producing +9 pA. ED #2 is a bit disappointing. I was expecting well over ...
2010-07-08 14:44:55