Hi Roger, We used long wires strung out on the field fences (insulated wire) and ran them into the barn and chicken house. The fences originated at those buildings so there was no wire laying on the ground to get caught in machinery. We had a high voltage line running along the property line and the wire was under the high voltage lines. We ran several small 40 watt bulbs off of these fence lines. Not enough current for motors , but just fine for small light bulbs. They were left on all the time. This works by ac current being induced from the high voltage lines into the wire strung along the fence. Not to be confused with the spark plug method of using static electricity to charge a battery. The static chargers were excellent because they provided a high voltage pulse that removed the oxides that build up on the battery plates and prevents the battery ever getting a full charge. Thats why most car batteries slowly get weaker. Put a static charger on them and they will be restored to full use again. (The manufacturers don't want you to know this, prefer you buy a new battery). Don't you remember when you could go into the neighborhood battery shop and get a good used battery for six bucks and it would last for three years or more. Nowadays battery shops aren't allowed anymore in the neighborhoods and the ones in zoned areas have so many dumb regulations on them they wouldn't even talk to you about a used battery. The better battery chargers (read, more expensive) do generate high voltage spikes along with the charging current to remove the oxide build up. They even point it out as an advertised feature. Back to the fence wire. Some of the fence was further away from the high voltage lines and we had to run two wires along side of each other to get more current (only connect them at one end, the end with the light bulb). If you needed more voltage, just extend the wire longer.
I recall the power company would send a guy out to drive along the lines looking for farmers using free power and he would cut the wire in pieces. We just put it back together as soon as he was out of sight. Power company would do that about twice a year. They don't do it any more as they now know that the normal line radiation losses are many times larger than any loss to your wires. All the farmers in our area did this back in the 30's and 40's. Don't know about the present, most likely still do. This was also written up in Popular Mechanics long ago. Bless you Bob Lee [email protected] wrote: > > Bob: Can you provide any references that describe how to put this idea into > practice on a small scale? If you would rather not say I understand, but I > don't think the whole world is focussed on our little group. Roger > > > > -- -- oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast [email protected] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
