Putting the Orbo in a vacuum would probably destroy it. There is nothing that says that Steorn's particular electrets or the internal lithium battery would survive outgassing in a vacuum. The Faraday cage would also prevent atmospheric ions from being attracted to the device.
It would be easy enough to put instrumentation inside the Faraday cage to measure and record the amount of energy delivered from the Orbo to an attached internal device - but everything must be put completely in the box. On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Jones, >> >> A Faraday cage requires no ground. It just requires a continuous metal >> box enclosure. The Orbo test would be simple. Put the Orbo and the phone >> inside the box with its charging cable connected totally within the box. >> No cables enter or exit from the box. Close the box for XX hours and see >> if the phone is charged when it is removed. Then close the box and keep >> the Orbo entirely within the box. Then do it again - over and over. >> >> If you want to eliminate the possibility of energy gain from the outside, >> just don't let any cables go in or out of the box. Strictly speaking, you >> would also want to have a magnetic mu-metal shield around the Faraday box. >> > > Perhaps it would speed things up to drain the battery before the testing. > > We could also test Robin's idea by keeping the Orbo and the charger under > high vacuum. Perhaps the testing of the two sets of concerns could be done > separately, first looking at the claim about the Orbo working in a Faraday > cage. > > Eric > >
