[NewCandle] experiments and observations

[Nick Reiter]

Greetings, all,

Long overdue set of updates on a couple of
never-quite-shelved projects, albeit ones that have
fallen below the day job, domestica, and the spring
planting in priority.

When last I wrote on the topic of LED drivers and
current anomalies, I had arrived at a set of "system
parameters" that appeared to at least on occasion
produce what I still have to refer to as a pseudo-OU
condition.  I recall that at the time, a couple of
months back, there was some valued input from a few of
you - Dr. Stiffler, Jones, and Keith as to different
directions for ongoing work.  I had intended at that
time to build the improved circuit suggested by Dr.
Stiffler, however I derailed myself and decided that I
needed to understand the properties of the system
better first.  This, in turn, led me into a greater
fascination not with maximizing the pseudo-OU
condition, but rather what environmental or design
influences on the basic circuit would seemingly cause
operation to drift from a "lawful" domain (as in say
60 to 85% system efficiency) into modes where by the
best of my metrology I was seeing greater than 100% -
up to about 160% on one or two occasions.

As I wrote before, it appeared as though the
connection into odd operation was what was connected
to the basic oscillator-secondary-diode rectifiers-LED
circuit at two points... what I called antenna A and
what I called antenna B.  A is connected to the V+ of
the oscillator, B is connected to the common end
(cathode end) of the LED strings.

It's been empirical, obviously, but the most
consistent and frequent swings into anomalous mode
have been with lengthy but low inductive value wire
arrays from Sam Faile's collection at A, and a
(treading way close to the end of the limb) layered
old-school style Reich orgone accumulator connected to
B.  Yup, there, I said it.  There's an ORAC in the
circuit.  10 fold steel wool and vinyl tape wound on a
1 quart galvanized juice can.  Don't say I didn't warn
you that I had been going pretty playful and cosmic
with this.

So these past couple of months, the "system" with an
ORAC connected to the LED strings and Sam's caduceus
braid coil array connected to the V+ as an antenna,
has sat in my library room, on a desk, and more
recently, outdoors in my garage, on the attic steps. 
I would turn it on for a few minutes several times a
day, as I could, and examine the real-time current
readins through one of the four identical LED strings,
and the current into the oscillator.  These readings
have continued to be best made as mV drops across 1.00
ohm resistive bridges into Fluke meters.

As I mentioned, my focus turned to looking at and
understanding how and why the ratio of power out to in
would shift over long time periods.  Was it humidity
related?  EM ambient in the house?  Diurnal? "Other?" 
Temperature?

Overall, I have to say it looks like a combination of
the last three.  There is a curious diurnal shift
independent of temperature or weather, where
generally, higher values of COP are read when the
circuit is operated before noon, in the morning. 
There is also a tendency to show better or more
anomalous readings at lower temperatures.  Cold
mornings.  However, I also have observed over the
course of multiple days, a slow build-up of anomaly
that then will either "break" spontaneously, or if
someone re-arranges some wire or connection, or
changes out a component.  COP1.2 will fall back
immediately to COP.65  Call it a vortex or a charge
condition, who can say.  It seems to come with the
ORAC country more than anything, if one follows and
believes any of that lore.

I can also say this:

1.  The anomaly condition seems to be almost entirely
a function of a change or rise in LED current without
a corresponding change in the battery current into the
oscillator.  In other words, the weird happens on that
side of the AV plug diodes.

2.  The "build up" to an anomaly condition did on one
occasion, when it was getting pretty high (COP 1.6),
incite a freakout and attack reaction on the part of
Mr. Hatfield, my one older male cat!  Hattie pried the
library door open, and leaped onto the LED array and
began tearing the hell out of it.

3.  Batteries are a key system component too.  Running
the circuit off of a set of alkaline D-cells seems to
give more frequent and higher anomaly periods than AA,
or conversely than a large 12V lead acid auto battery.

4.  The system as I have been working with it these
past few months goes definitely does not like an earth
ground.  It seems to need to be floating in an
isolated way - no ground - to go into anomaly mode.

5.  Possibly related, the system exhibits nothing but
plain old lawful operation when the battery pack is
replaced by a bench 12v or variable power supply.  Is
it the lack of batteries, or the fact that a virtual
ground is being provided back through the mains.

6. The cycles of COP do not seem to have much to do
with humidity.  

7. In order to test whether they have to do with
picking up of EM ambient, I have shut power off in the
house, I have fired up a plasma globe near the
circuit, and I have keyed up cell phones and walkie
talkies near the circuit.  No significant tweaks
observed.

My good chums, this has been a wondrous diversion and
a delightfully weird pastime, though admittedly one
with little more practical use than a tank of nice
tropical fish or a hamster habitrail.  Still, I keep
it going, and Sam and I brainstorm new variables to
introduce.

On my other project - the Peltier module force effect
- I've putzed along with that also and found some
oddities.  I noticed that among the Peltier modules I
had tested, the smaller ones seemed to produce more of
the force effect than larger.  I was running out, and
felt I needed to get a new supply, all of one size and
manufacture so I could begin trying arrangements with
multiple chips to see how I could get a greater
additive force.  So I ordered five 10W chips that
sadly had only a so-so (maybe about a 1mg per amp)
force effect level.

Even so, I have tried up to four, in series, parallel,
flat arrayed, stacked arrayed.  A couple of very
significant properties I can say that I have seen
consistently enough to report among friends.

1.  The force effect seems to be vaguely additive when
the peltier chips are hooked in electrical parallel
(with hot and cold directions conserved of course)

2.  When in electrical series, the force tends to be
very small and indeterminate - even less than one chip
by itself.  The impression is that some effect is
getting scattered.

3.  The force effect, at least with a single chip of
usual construction, seems to vary linearly with
applied current, as opposed to power disspated.

I am looking at this now in terms of some possible
transfer of momentum from electrons within the
couples.  If so, would it be a reactionless
space-drive type force?  Or is there some reaction
force back at the power supply or battery!?

Right now, I am building a perverted little experiment
using a pair of copper tube loops and a Peltier chip
of some modest beef (20W) to generate a Thompson
Effect along the loops, with an additional applied
current.  This whole mess will be placed on the mg
balance.  We'll see if there is a Thompson Effect
force!  Probably won't ge to this to finish it for a
couple of weeks.

I'm off to Germany for 2 weeks, flying out next
weekend.  My turn came up to go over to our German
solar PV factory near Leipzig and help the process
engineers as they get the production line up and
running again.  So the Thompson Effect experiment will
have to happen after I get back.

Hoping all are having a bright early summer.  Or
mellow late fall, you guys down under!

nr


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