When I was in my teens, I'd ride my bicycle down this hill directly under some very large distribution lines. When it rained, I would always get zapped by the screw on my brake lever.... That made me want to become an electrician

@cyberp0et

Жыл бұрын

So, did you?

@mryoung8586

Жыл бұрын

@@cyberp0et yep!

@Anklejbiter

Жыл бұрын

@@mryoung8586 How do you like it? What are some things you've learned?

@mryoung8586

Жыл бұрын

I was an electrician for the military for 14 years. The number one thing I learned was to always ground generators! In Iraq, a trailer mounted generator was blowing embers out of the exhaust pipe, so I sprayed the dry grass with a water hose. This stirred up the mosquitoes, and I wound up swatting at one on my head. I knocked my sunglasses off the top of my head. They landed underneath the trailer.... I crawled under to get them, bumped my head on the frame, and I got the hell knocked out of me.

@aleksandersats9577

Жыл бұрын

@@mryoung8586 Ah yes grounding. My houses electrical system needs overhauling, the sockets have a ground connection however when I checked there is no ground cable connected anywhere and well touching any metal case of a device gives me a 60hz buzz. Yeah..

You are not stealing, you are collecting what they are wasting.

@cj09beira

2 жыл бұрын

thats not really true though, as there will be coupling between his inductor and the main wire, so he is stealing power

@overunityinventor

2 жыл бұрын

@@cj09beira in Thane hiens bi toroidal transformer, bemf induced flux doesn't couple back with primary, we can use one such topology.

@mobyhunr

Жыл бұрын

since power runs in the field not the wire, you are wrong

@dav1dbone

Жыл бұрын

@@cj09beira Yeah, but it doesn't matter cause the power company is funded by unfathomable sources of debt, the workers are robots and if you try and phone the company your call gets routed to a dissused office with a tape recorder playing. with a microphone stuck pointing at the speaker. There’s probably an old swivel chair in there too.

@jchoneandonly

Жыл бұрын

No it's not waste. You're legit taking power from them without paying

I know a guy who had a junk yard with a high tension (11kv) line running over it..he parked an old mobile crane beneath the lines with a longitudinally wound coil made using a large cast iron pipe as the armature he used a tapping switch connected to the coil tappings at the end of the pipe to correct the output voltage..the junkyard run on free but poorly regulated 240V for many years...he never got caught, the system was removed from service in 1993 when he sold the junkyard after almost 20 years..I got to see how the coil was wound when it was being scrapped (a lot of copper) It is a design I will never forget.....the site now sits vacant and overgrown.

@garydunn9418

2 ай бұрын

I love your description.Thank you. What exactly was the design? Was the coil was wound on the cast iron pipe.Was the pipe hollow? Or was the coil wound on the cranes arm? How was the tap designed? You said a lot of copper.. about how many turns?

@merlin7766

20 күн бұрын

What a great story 👍🇬🇧

Years ago at a local landfill there were several boxes of these 8 or 10' florescent tubes removed from a supermarket that was being renovated. A couple friends and I decided to visit in the evening looking for bike parts for our go-carts.. when we noticed something flickering in the garbage pits.. was it some sort of radioactive stuff? Well, I figured it out right away, but my friends were losing their minds! Eventually I let them in on what was happening with the tubes and the 500KV transmission lines 60' overhead. We left that place with a lot of people left scratching their heads! Those tubes were up in trees and some buried one end in the dirt.. we had the service road under the power lines almost lit up for a 1/4 mile.. it looked eerie, because from a mile away they randomly flickered in pink, yellow and green light.

@lauradobre7735

Жыл бұрын

Frumooase povești aveți ,sunteți un popor înteligent.

@bozosplayhouse

Жыл бұрын

@@lauradobre7735 mulțumesc foarte mult.

@alexc4924

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully nowadays they don't throw those in landfill because mercury

@JeffreyAllanBackowski

Жыл бұрын

I still have a big box of those in my garage, new, I broke a few by "accident". What if I were to use four them as the poles in one of those square Chinese kites, do you think it would light up?

@JeffreyAllanBackowski

Жыл бұрын

I'm going to tape some helium balloons to one and let it go at night, see if it lights up, I'll put a long string on it, so it doesn't float into a plane or anything, don't worry everyone.

Heard a story a very long time ago. A farmer or rancher had a field outlined in barbed wire, looped all the way back to the main gate. The story goes that one day he put his hands on both sides of the gate touching each end of the wire and discovered a shock. Don't recall any statement of voltages or anything else other than a shock. The story goes on to state that the power company had placed power lines NEAR his property. In court he claimed he was trying to dissipate the charge by using some sort of load, be it a light or a pump or something else. The power company wanted to charge him for stealing their electricity. And for those who don't know, pulling power from a magnetic field DOES take away power from the transmission line. In the end the court decided that if the power company didn't like the loss of electricity they could move their power lines some stated distance away from his property. After watching your video - by the way, thanks for an excellent presentation - I find it hard to believe the story I just related. Think I heard that back in the late 1970's. Like I said, it's been some times since hearing that story. What comment do you have if any?

@popsfereal3192

Ай бұрын

That's because the story is fake.

@donaldduck830

Ай бұрын

I heard a similar story and that the owner of the powerline could not do anything about it. That is imho why this vid is slightly wrong, since it is not stealing if it is not illegal, merely harvesting from the surrounding fields. Dampening those is actually a good thing, imho.

You could use this to find underground or in wall wires. Just run a decent load on the other end and you could potentially trace the entire path.

@jchoneandonly

Жыл бұрын

Yeah there's tools built for that too

@anthonydentice8180

Жыл бұрын

yeh most have machines have passive Radio frequencies n 50/60hz modes. i always give them a wanding be4 i leave an area

@whatelseison8970

Жыл бұрын

As a home gamer you're usually better off with a tool that detects changing voltages through capacitive means. In the electrical trade they're known as a "volt tick" or ticker. They're basically high gain amplifiers with a light and speaker that go off above a certain threshold. Big Clive did a video on those maybe 6 months ago. It's good. Another arguably better option is to use a sensitive hall effect sensor because those have also become cheaply available. With one of those and a suitable microcontroller like and ESP32 you can put together a bluetooth connected sensor for both AC and DC current detection. That's how DC clamp meters work. To detect DC voltage without significant current flow one can use a JFET with its gate floating. The main trouble there is that low level static charges are all around us all the time so there may be too much noise for that to be useful. YMMV.

@Bob_Adkins

Жыл бұрын

A multimeter that could check this cost much less than a 3-pound coil of copper wire.

@anthonydentice8180

Жыл бұрын

@@Bob_Adkins classic, i use to use concrete gprs with 50hz detectors in them but yeh it was a job 😀

My father was an electrical engineer back in the 1940s and 1950s. He later opened a TV repair shop in California in the early 60s. He told me a story about a time when he strung wires under a high-tension powerline that ran across his backyard in Illinois. I don't know the details. Sorry. Long story, short. He powered the house for two years before the power company found out about it. He was a smart man. He designed equipment for the old AM music stations of that era. He invented many circuits for Ham radio operators. He even did some stuff for the Military. When he got caught with his " Free Energy" equipment, he got sued and had to pay back two years of estimated electric usage. Besides being an electrical genius, he was an asshole.

@merlin5476

Жыл бұрын

That last bit was highly amusing.

@HyperspacePirate

Жыл бұрын

True American Hero

@JP-wp1vi

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile the family gets health problems from being under the power lines, and nobody sues the power company. Edit So I learned this wasn’t true. See my other post.

@Scrogan

Жыл бұрын

@@JP-wp1vi While such a thing isn’t impossible, I haven’t seen a technically feasible explanation for it, nor have I seen any statistically significant evidence to suggest it might actually happen. Assuming we’re not talking about RF burns but rather about lower-power electric field interactions with human tissue, I can only really see that sort of thing happening at much higher frequencies. Frequencies where a human body has multiple wavelengths inside them in order to span across some organ structure, or where the frequency matches up with some molecular resonance in a biological molecule. I’d be far more worried about cell-towers than mains frequency transmission lines.

@jesusisalive3227

Жыл бұрын

There was a guy that got caught doing this on a nearby Indian reservation. He was lucky he didn't kill himself as he ran it directly into his panel unregulated.

Back in high school, using an old aircraft VHF dipole on a broomstick that feed a very unoptimized coil, we used to pull some 3/4 inch arcs under a pair of large 750kV transmission lines that cross through my town. I stupidly fried my first multimeter trying to "measure" the induced voltage, it literally screamed with a brief continuity beep as it died - still haunts me. 😅 All the contraptions we made to pull power off those lines were just goofy experimental guesses. We barely understood Ohms Law and knew nothing of the difference between E and H fields. We'd always bring long fluorescent bulbs with us because they readily glow with a neat throbbing pattern from the strong ELF magnetic fields under those high tension lines. Good times! :-)

@unteren_text5425

Жыл бұрын

Yeah sure you did 😂

@markkennard861

Жыл бұрын

Do you know if those lines were DC or AC. Here in NZ there are 500kv DC lines connecting South Island to North.

@0x07AF

Жыл бұрын

@@markkennard861 AC for sure on the lines passing through my town. That's why we could pull off energy and make sparks with our coils. The high voltage DC lines like you have are quite a bit more efficient because they don't have any dynamic magnetic fields coupling bits of energy into every conductive bicycle, sign, pipe, car, box, manhole cover, whatever that happens to be along their miles of path. Each of those tiny power losses really add up over long distances. HVDC is a more complex system. It has losses too, but parasitic magnetic coupling into random crap isn't one of them.

@closetcleaner

Жыл бұрын

That's due to CEMF when you open the circuit that charges the inductor. It's a function the inductor, not the power lines.

@markkennard861

Жыл бұрын

If had thought about that a little longer i would have come to the same conclusion. But a standard clip on amp meter does have a dc measurement so the magnetic field around dc cables can be induced into an inductor. As a Ham i have a ferrite that i can clip onto a coax feeder cable to measure radiated current in the shield.. often wanted to run a decent length of conductor under 110kv line and do some testing.. just to satisfy my own curiosity.

Back in the 70s, there were these fellows that had an arrangement involving 55-gallon drums with wire coiled around them set up under high-tension power lines that ran through the hills in the middle of nowhere that powered a still. Since there was no fire, I don't believe they ever got caught! The only reason I knew about it was I lived on a small farm on a ridge top a few miles away and once in a while on a still summer night, I would get a whiff of that distinctive smell of the mash cooking. In those days, everybody kept their mouths shut!

A few decades ago a friend of mine lived about 200 metres from an AM Radio transmitting tower. He had run loops of wire around his fence line and used the electricity generated to trickle charge a car battery which he used as part of his Ham radio setup. It seemed to keep the battery constantly topped up. I think he managed to save about $1 a month in electricity costs. 😀

@MaxMuller0

Жыл бұрын

I lived about 10km away from a AM station and a simple untuned transistor circuit worked to hear radio. So it definitely could have worked.

@jkmacgyver

Жыл бұрын

@@MaxMuller0 LOts of really cool thiings happen near AM TX. Some structures will even demodulate it.. probably where some ghost stories come from! :)

@bagnome

Жыл бұрын

@@jkmacgyver I've heard stories about people who live close to high power transmitters. Like 500 kilowatts. Barbed wire fences would vibrate from the signal and one who was standing near one of the fences could hear the broadcast.

@mcmerry2846

Жыл бұрын

What is the equivalence of that $1 dollar now?

@MaxMuller0

Жыл бұрын

@@jkmacgyver I know, I have seen reports about tools and cooking spoons demodulating AM. Our transmitters have shut down in 2015 I believe, only DWD, ORF and SRF sometimes broadcast on AM SW, with a few smaller stations.

Really fighting that inverse cube law there. If you aim for AM radio stations you might be able to get more power, even though they’re much further away. A mW or two is enough for a low-power microcontroller circuit waking from sleep with a PFET circuit running off a capacitor, energy harvesting is real neat for distributed sensor applications.

@chrisfuller1268

Жыл бұрын

He should be able to couple a lot of power if he impedance matched to the load. It's better to try to capture the electric field with a resonant electrically small straight antenna. The efficiency of the antenna will be only a few percent, but the electric field is much higher than the magnetic field due to high voltage, low current on power lines. Someone else's father in these comments got into trouble powering their home by coupling to the electric field wirelessly.

@G-ra-ha-m

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisfuller1268 You can legally take the power, if you simply charge them for the electric field intruding into your land.

@WizardClipAudio

Жыл бұрын

This crossed my mind too,… but what I’d be interested in knowing, is what would happen if you put a whole bunch of these joule thief’s, subsequently, into series and parallel circuits, in something like a server rack, and used a highly optimized, commons antenna to ‘feed’ them? Also, what happens if you do the same, but attuned to natural background radiation of space, or if you could integrate a processing system to attenuate the whole system optimally, as desired? I guess, you’d have more than one mega ‘joule thief,’ but potentially, one hell of a sophisticated radio telescope antenna, component, by dually applying it to that end.

@mcmerry2846

Жыл бұрын

My dad is the landlord of a radio company and he literally has an antenna in his yard.

@conmcgrath7174

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes! You touched a formerly sensitive subject there. Let's just say 'national secrets'? Pax and respect.

That's a hell of a lot of work just to get a small LED to light up!

@tobystewart4403

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to green energy.

@puretv8742

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@nax1807

11 ай бұрын

its the work which is the fun and interesting part, not the result,

@jonclement

Ай бұрын

practical leakage flux energy harvesters powering diodes? I'll put one on your wall near your microwave and record you speaking.

My grandpa had a rig that pulled power from right before his meter. He had a master switch in the basement that would switch between the meter and the 2 120vac lines that feed the meter. He kept quiet about it and we didn't find out about it until we were replacing the old screw in fuse panel, w a proper □D breaker panel. Even when they put in a new "smart meter" no one said a word about the extra cables running thru the meter box. We don't use it any longer as the wires are old (but very heavy gauge) aluminum type, and we did not connect them to the new panel. The switch is a huge knife style switch from a steel refinery where he used to work. I've been thinking about using it hooked up to a genny to disconnect mains and switch to 220vac genny. Luckily the transformer is on a power supply line located in a back field surrounded by about 10 acres of wood lot and a .22lr is just right for blowing the fuse to the transformer, and power company has to have us open gates for access. So rewiring if needed is relatively safe. This is in nw Arkansas and most of our neighbors have the same setup. It's been 4 generations of my family there now, and we have never been questioned about it. It used to drive my grandmother crazy because he would switch to the free power legs when she was running the stove and 3 ovens! Wich would reset her radio/timer. I remember one Xmas he bought her 4 wind-up timers for the kitchen 3 for ovens 1 for stove top. I thought she would be pissed but she LOVED THEM! I don't think she even ever asked why he would goto basement every afternoon and then the power would drop out and come back on one fuse at a time. Original don't ask don't tell policy lol. And since all the neighbors had same system the power company must have just assumed the people on that rural route were just very very frugal. Also most neighbors still run wood burning stoves for heat in winter. He also had a hot water pre heater (an old hot water tank on its side with insulation removed, painted matte black and a curved aluminum reflector behind it). In summer u didnt even need the real water heater running and in winter it had a bypass valve plumbed in (permanently) w a set of coils that ran thru the sides of the chimney that was fed by the wood burner. There is still a black bakelite dial (pulse) telephone on the wall, it no longer works and says property of bell systems on a plate on the back, apparently back in the day the phone company owned the actual phones and charged a small fee to rent them. Until the early/mid 1990s it was a party line. To call them I would dial their number let it ring 4x hang up and then call back, and my grandma would answer. On occasion if you were jaw flapping a long time a neighbor would pickup their phone and politely ask you to clear the line so they could make a call. Thank god for good country neighbors! They have always been like extended family members. Which is a good thing to have when you live on a mountain 45 min from town on a dirt road. No one drives 4wd bullshit. If road washed out or became un-passable u just stuck the triangle 🔺️ on back of tractor and took that to town (the tractors are all 4wd or tracked). The main road is paved now and they have a spur road that goes directly into town and the highway. Also pro-tip if u don't want to pay high fuel prices u can buy red dyed farm fuel (diesel is red gasoline is green) and run it thru a 30 gallon drum packed w charcoal (broken up hardwood is the best and the guy w the charcoal converter (a giant oven) basically gives away the fines (tiny peices and dust) if u help him empty the oven and clamps (a clamp is a big hole in the ground that u stack wood into then cover w mud/clay to make charcoal). Can't wait to go back this fall!

@leviisrael3752

Жыл бұрын

I can't believe I read all this

@readmycomment4696

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@audioworkshop1

Жыл бұрын

Great story… but someone was paying for the electricity there is no free lunch on the grid

@GoingtoHecq

Жыл бұрын

@@audioworkshop1 I mean a for profit company was.

@GoingtoHecq

Жыл бұрын

I'll have to test that method of filtering out the color from diesel, some day. I don't run diesel anyways.

Back in the sixties there was a guy who lived near high tension power wires. He filled a 55 gallon drum with nuts and bolts and wrapped wire around it and used the power it sucked away from the lines. The power company sued, and the court ruled that even though there wasn't a direct wire connection, he was still "taking" the power without paying and ordered him to stop.

@procactus9109

Жыл бұрын

That's right, so using this in your own home is not free like the yank here says... Anything after the meter is payed for

@RAndrewNeal

Жыл бұрын

@@procactus9109 That's why you stick the thing before the meter.

@procactus9109

Жыл бұрын

@@RAndrewNeal bottom line is, it's stupid.... At best, it's simply a tuned magnetic sensor.

@RAndrewNeal

Жыл бұрын

@@procactus9109 No; at best, it's an air-core transformer. The one made in this video has too much impedance to be useful, nevermind the fact that you won't glean much power from a single conductor as opposed to a coil.

@procactus9109

Жыл бұрын

@@RAndrewNeal what, how is a carbon rod an air core ?

I occasionally gave some casual thought to these issues when reading electrical theory, but it was very nice to see them demonstrated experimentally, and with explanations I could more or less understand. The comments were interesting as well, and sometimes a hoot!

The power loss from the mains is detectable by the power company. They can even localize it. So while it's fun for lighting up an LED or powering some small device, if you draw anything significant this way, they'll come down on you pretty hard. That said, I think that if they don't want people receiving their magnetic fields, they should be on the hook for keeping the fields on their own property.

@KLWCOMM

2 ай бұрын

The minuscule power absorbed by the circuit is not detectable at the power company side. Power surges represent more power.

Bros microphone is powered by his neighbours microwave

I discovered early in my career as an electrician that a neon screwdriver was pretty useless at telling you whether a circuit was live or dead. If the wire you are testing ran through trunking with other cables the neon would light even though there was no voltage. Also if you remove the lid of a trunking and hold the screwdriver next to the insulated wires it lights up. After discovering this I threw the neon screwdriver in the bin but did wonder about any potential uses.

@buddyclem7328

Жыл бұрын

Cheap LED light bulbs do this too. They can light up just from being connected to one power lead, in an open circuit.

Since you are working with low frequency of 60 Hz, you could use a core of laminated iron. It would increase the inductivity per turn. In exchange you could reduce the amount of turns and take thicker wires to reduce the resistance. This could increase the sensitivity of the coil by alot.

@Pucflek111

Жыл бұрын

I read comments here just to find out if somebody has already written this. Using ferrite core for LF is totally unefficient and I would really like to know measured values with the iron one.

@AClarke2007

Жыл бұрын

Also, ungrounded. It`s not as though we are trying to pull RF energy here.

@buddyclem7328

Жыл бұрын

*a lot

My grandfather had a light in a shed in his field that was powered by the top wire of the fence that ran about 150 feet under a 15kv powerline. It was a low power bulb but it did light up and stayed lit all the time

I just discovered your channel from the CNC video and it's awesome ! I had this kind of idea of stealing electricity but I never thought about making it and I didn't think about the resonant frequency of such a circuit.

Many years ago we were camping in The “los Algodones” sand dun dunes. And within 200 feet of some very high voltage transmission lines feeding San Diego from Arizona I was able to light a 4 ft fluorescent lamp by holding one hand in the palm of my hand and the other simply in the air. By the next day/ nite there were other campers running coax cable to their camps. Needless to say, after some of them wiring their whole fixture up, several got tagged. By the weekend there was chain-link and Barbed wire fencing around the towers. lol

@alexc4924

Жыл бұрын

Yeah nobody cares about the lightbulb demonstration which is pretty cool, or even using a millionth of a watt to run some sensor, but don't take any real amount of power, that's not cool

@stephenrocks7004

Жыл бұрын

@@alexc4924 Do you have steel power poles on the 14KVA (+ - ) ? If not, read later. Try sinking a ground rod near said pole, use #6 or better to your home Then for the other lead to your home “uffer” Every situation is different but I was able to Pull 2 amps with various voltages. That is your ground potential and can be deadly, so be safe.

that stuff at the end where you charge the capacitor from 5 ft away was amazing. and where you made that metal circle spin and ring on the floor, that would legit get you burned at the stake a couple hundred years ago. so cool

@mcmerry2846

Жыл бұрын

You just had to tell it was "God" sending a message and they would have you speared

@clown134

Жыл бұрын

@@mcmerry2846 😂 maybe. could go either way. sometimes it hard to tell which genocidal space demon is making the magic. zues? or Cthulhu or the Christian one. I imagine the verdict depends heavily on their first impression of your personality lol

@Based_transition_Clocker

3 ай бұрын

It really wouldn't. You should probably read the Malleus instead of promoting ignorance about your ancestors.

@clown134

3 ай бұрын

so you deny the salem witch trials? and the spanish inquisition?@@Based_transition_Clocker

I took 3 years of electronics training in a tech school. I was with you up until 4:11. Lol. It was always my lack of aptitude for the math that held me back. Great video!!

A friend had some high voltage power lines running across his property (93K I believe) and I told him to do something similar. He attached it to the end of about 30 feet of bamboo lashed together. It was anchored to the roof is a shed he had standing out in the field under the power lines. The bamboo pole naturally waves side to side and it generates enough voltage to power some LED bulbs and a WiFi access point!

cool to see it explained, I was playing around with something similar after I discovered wires in my old workplace were live even though they were unplugged, took me a while to work out that it was a very small charge and not dangerous but still quite a surprise when you are trying to trace live wires in a cupboard and they all test live even though you know for a fact only one is switched on.

@calthorp

20 күн бұрын

yes it always has me scratching my head when I see small amounts of voltage in wires that are supposed to be off.

@TalRohan

20 күн бұрын

@@calthorp lol not good is it, when your test screwdriver is lighting up all over the place....then later the volt meter comes out and you think ....Ooh good grief its the transformer effect...lol

@calthorp

20 күн бұрын

@@TalRohan Or could be a faulty switch that is not really opening properly.

Thank you for doing this, I've had this thought for many years since reading about Nikola Tesla's work and sitting at a train station with a nearing dead source of entertainment and no ability to charge. Then wireless charging came along and confirmed my thoughts but been somewhat lacking of focus to play enough to try it. You're awesome

Well, I'm off to the restaurant to pick crumbs off the floor. I know it's tedious, but I eat for free!

@cyberp0et

Жыл бұрын

"The Great Reset" is upon us.

That’s an awesome demonstration of wireless electricity. Very impressed at the simplicity of everything too!

You clearly put a lot of work into the project and the video - kudos! Ah, but the dangers of EMFs!! I started at a Fortune 100 electric company as a comm tech in 1984. Very soon after I started the warning came out of electrical workers having double the risk of two nasty brain cancers - gliomas and astrocytomas - compared to average Joes. D'oh! The finding, from data mining in various studies, drove two decades of EMF regulations, particularly in Europe. Around the turn of the century a much larger study found no correlation; the previous one had been a data cluster. That made me feel better. As I became more senior more and more of my job centered around protection systems (think of circuit breakers that coordinate with the far end of 200 mile lines) for 69KV to 500KV. The three 500KV substations in my AOR were becoming very familiar to me. Touching anything grounded - poles and fences - in most of the yard produced an unpleasant shock. Doing it under the capacitor banks produced a memorable experience! Now in retirement, I am enjoying great health with no sort of advers^&%^()*&)*(#&@)(&@#)(&)(

@chrisfuller1268

Жыл бұрын

The FCC doesn't regulate below 300 kHz but the IEEE C.95 recommends a 1800 V/m and 0.35 Tesla limit at low frequencies. I can see how the near-field of power lines could get above that limit, but not for the general population. I participated in the 2005 C.95 standard and you're right, technicians have a demonstrated higher risk. So do Scandinavians, I don't know why.

@Sol_Rosenberg

Жыл бұрын

Is that a stroke you had at the end there? I would say that's definitely an adverse effect. You should sue them for punitive damages.

@dallynsr

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisfuller1268 Chernobyl, maybe? Haha

@fvrrljr

Жыл бұрын

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Also, if you run a long wire a couple feet of the ground under a hv powerline, you can even drag little arcs from it!

Using your coil/led sniffer outside of a circuit panel or power boxes at work is outside the metal boxes meaning any fields powering your coil and led are on the ground field and most likely stray neutral floating fields and not the power fields around the mains power cable conductors (inside the box behind the breaker lid/cover) as this acts like a faraday cage shield. Remove the panel lid and then try your coil, and be ready to have your led circuit make s’mores.

Growing up our landlord was a coal fired power plant and our house was inside the fence (in retrospect they probably should not have been renting that out lol) utilities were of course included but I could see this affect being the reason behind a lot of BSODs.

I love these experiments! There is a 750kV transmission line near me. It is always fun to bring coils to it and scavenge power :P

@0x07AF

Жыл бұрын

Bring some long florescent lights with ya next time and play StarWars with your friends after dusk! (Just don't actually hit your "lightsabers" together.) 😅

@adrianshingler9783

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes!!!! What fun!!! Encourage all folks not to mess around near to HV lines….one slip and you will really be toast…I worked for a while in a live 400kV outdoor sub on the coast and just walking under the busbars was enough for me 😎😎 ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️

@alexc4924

Жыл бұрын

@@adrianshingler9783 I don't think anyone is recommending going inside a substation. Just going underneath the big transmission lines that are high up off the ground

@adrianshingler9783

Жыл бұрын

@@alexc4924 my simple safety message is this…..steer well clear of any HV power lines/substations regardless of the distances and voltages involved. The power transfer will be very limited in any event, it’s simply not worth the risk.

@alexc4924

Жыл бұрын

@@adrianshingler9783 Walking on a trail that crosses underneath transmission lines is not dangerous at all. (At least not as far as we know. Might be found to cause cancer in the future)

Thanks for showing us all the stuff we’d forgotten, I feel quite thick now !

Excellent primer on AC power and induced fields using coils… young engineers take note. I use a portable am radio to detect noisy power lines that interfere with my amateur radio station … same principal at higher frequencies

In olden times a person would stand under a high voltage transmission line with a fluorescent tube and light it up. That's the electric field gradient where your device intercepts the magnetic field. Some youtube videos exist about doing that but I haven't found one with sufficient quality to recommend it.

@qazmatron

Ай бұрын

I held an 8-foot fluorescent light bulb high overhead, pointing up at the local very-high-voltage lines, one night a few years ago. It lit very dimly. To look impressive, you'd have to do it away from suburban homes and do it on the night of a new moon or when the Moon is not overhead and take a photo using long exposure. (Maybe higher voltage somewhere else would have lit it brighter.) (Adding aluminum foil to the high end might have collected more current and increased the brightness, but I didn't try it.) If it lit brightly I would be tempted to attach it to a stake and leave it there.

From an EE - this is good solid EE stuff, thanks for uploading it. Might be interesting to stand under >500kV lines, where the three phases are roughly in line vertically with the lowest line much closer, to see how much power you can pick up from the magnetic field. Also, I have heard of people taking a 'zap' from their cars parked under such lines, presumably as a result of capacitive coupling of the unbalanced e-fields. Electric fields and magnetic fields together - now you are talking power!

@ChemEDan

Жыл бұрын

Yep, grew up next to one and had electric fences set up for cattle. Next morning we had us a dead cow.

@AtlasReburdened

Жыл бұрын

I grew up around some high voltage transmission lines, and would ride my bike under them frequently. When riding under them I could easily feel 60hz by lightly rubbing my thumb on the metallic part of the handle bars. Getting "zapped" sounds a bit like a dramatic person felt the same thing when brushing their car door. The sensation is painless. Just a buzzing feeling at the interface of skin and metal.

@Dazza_Doo

Жыл бұрын

Wish I was an EE - honestly, I started learning Real Electronics when I watched PCB lectures about twisted Wire Pairs and how that everything is a transmission line. Electrical energy is flowing around the wires, something that was high-lighted by Veritasium last year, and the youtube meltdown following that video.

@buddyclem7328

Жыл бұрын

@@Dazza_Doo I took a 2 year EE course, and it wasn't difficult, but they definitely exaggerated about how "in-demand" my skills would be in reality. Still, I'm glad I did it.

"It's like picking crumbs off a restaurant floor" 🤣

I love everything about this, awesome work!

I feel im on some kind of list now

@HyperspacePirate

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, everyone is, which makes the whole idea of a list kind of moot.

@niceguy9071

2 жыл бұрын

Same bro

@whatelseison8970

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, lists are fine. What you gotta worry about is getting your ass in a spreadsheet.

@flagmichael

Жыл бұрын

Urgent message, Fearless Leader! Hyperspace Pirate is onto us. We had better get our names on the list or they will know who we are!

@EBikeBuilder_

Жыл бұрын

@@whatelseison8970 and if you're in a pivot table you're fucked

I always wondered about this, could you take electricity pre-meter using the magnetic fields that are generated by the AC mains. Thanks for making this video as it answered my question. I was expecting that it would generate more though

@mcmerry2846

Жыл бұрын

Well... you're actually just taxing them for using your airspace

@dec335

Жыл бұрын

@@mcmerry2846 🤣 you make a good point

@jamoecw

Жыл бұрын

if optimized you can get a lot more. this is technically illegal.

@mcmerry2846

Жыл бұрын

@@jamoecw yeah firmas and government robbing you = legal You getting what's yours = illegal. Sad reality

@dec335

Жыл бұрын

@@jamoecw Stealing generally is illegal 😃

Walking under 400kv power lines with a flourescent tube in your hand is always a neat trick!

you can also use a fluro tube, shows about 40v AC, no coil... i tested it under a low hung power line, i didnt load it just measured potential. the gas glows and all it would need is rectifier and a DC cap

Good job this shows proof of concept, now imagine if you can do several put them in the capacitors 🧐

@LegendLength

Жыл бұрын

Would nano-technology help? You could perhaps create wire structures at a very small level with lots of surface area.

What would be the result if you wound that amount of wire back and forth between to power poles a hundred meters apart ?

@G-ra-ha-m

Жыл бұрын

There is DC in the air, 100V per meter. Very low current, but it's there. Also the ground carries currents: bury two earth rods as far apart as possible, and some power will be found between them.

Neat video and I really enjoy these buildable devices.

Power companies HATE this man.

Interesting, does the device represent a load on the AC system or is it collecting power that would be radiated regardless of it's existence?

@HyperspacePirate

2 жыл бұрын

It's an extremely tiny load on the AC system - probably too small to even be measured. The magnetic fields are radiated regardless, but without being captured by a device like this, they're just potential energy that goes back into the system.

@thomasmaughan4798

Жыл бұрын

It is a bit of both. Most of this radiated energy goes into space or is absorbed in the ground as heat. Not much, but more than zero. If the amount you absorb is less than what the Earth absorbs, the net effect is beneficial. But if your collection is more efficient than Earth, it will be felt as a slight load. Since this circuit is resonant, if you are not drawing power from it, then it will actually return some slight power to the grid.

@ohgosh5892

Жыл бұрын

A very perceptive question. At long distances from transmission lines, the fields cancel out, so there is no far-field, hence no radiation. At short distances, there is a near-field which can be coupled to, which is not fully cancelled out, so some power can be collected, although not a great deal of power unless you get very close, or have an enormous sensor. Some power is also always lost in the permittivity and permeability of the area around the transmission line, as the EM fields try to re-arrange any nearby molecules just a little, which is also one reason why overhead lines may not be insulated, they are more efficient that way.

As it is AC you don't even need a coil. There were several instances of theft like this in the 80s in Sweden, but it's really easy to find where it's being stolen by just measuring the line so everyone that does this over a period of time gets caught.

My knowledge of electromagnetism is limited to what was taught in my engineering physics 2 course so this is beyond what i know, but you are explaining it in a way that i can mostly follow along

ELECTRICITY IS VERY INTERESTING TO ME, YOU MAKE IT SOUND SO EASY

I've overheard that farmers used old bed springs under high tension power lines to heat chicken coops for free. They were cough because the power company could detect additional loads of leakage on the lines and was forced to pay up for damages and power theft. I doubt powering up an LED or even charging a phone while doing this would cause an investigation into theft.

@ohgosh5892

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a pub story; The case against: transmission lines work by having fields which cancel out very close to the line, so coupling is very difficult, unless you can get very close to the lines. Air breakdown voltage is around 3kV/mm, or 30kV/cm, so when you are close enough to couple to the field, you risk a flash-over, and death, or if you are lucky, merely permanent life-changing burns. Heating requires at least hundreds of watts to make any difference to even a small container, and chicken houses are not well insulated in general. If they were well insulated, the chickens would heat the coop with their own body heat. Chicken coops (well, the one I had at least) had separate compartments for each hen, with some bedding in them, so the warmth of the animal was sufficient. Is there are case for? Do you have a reference?

@bicivelo

Жыл бұрын

I call BS. LOL

@audioworkshop1

Жыл бұрын

Every time someone post one of these free energy from power lines videos the farmer and the bed springs comes up… I’ve heard that one before the internet was around … next round is on me mate

@ohgosh5892

Жыл бұрын

@@audioworkshop1 That was my feeling, it sounds like total bollox to me.

Your videos should be a must watch for al students. I like how conceise, objective, and very very breve are your explanations. It's exactly the amount I like. I keep pausing your videos al the time because I need time to process the info you put on-screen. I learn so much from your videos. I have a question. Are you good in programming arduino ? Or python?

"Are you from the power company?" "I told you this river don't go 'ta Aintree."

@cyberp0et

Жыл бұрын

Now squeel like a pig! :)))

I like it. Learning disguised as doing something naughty. Brilliant!

During a rainy season, When I was crossing a railway track holding an umbrella fully open above my head, I noticed a tiny continues spark between my thumb and the umbrella shaft as I stood on the tracks (There was a buzzing sound, that's what made me notice). The high voltage power lines for the train was passing above me. At that time I too thought whether it was possible to harness this "free-energy". Free in the sense 'free for anyone to use'.

@thomasmaughan4798

Жыл бұрын

Train electrification is typically 16 Hz (in Europe) and high voltage around 60 kilovolts. Because there is no parallel but opposite phase conductor, the magnetic and electric fields will not be canceled in the vicinity.

@filanfyretracker

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasmaughan4798 NYC area train power gets fun. NE Corridor has 25Kv and 12Kv on overheads(also at 25hz or 60hz), Metro North has trains that can run on those overheads or on 750VDC third rails as Grand Central is third rail.

Farmers in NZ used to power their electric fences by stringing collector wires alongside power lines. When. They figured out how to power their houses and cowsheds too the power board started picking up losses significant in their grid. And shut them down. Your aerial is too short for the frequency.

@DMahalko

Жыл бұрын

What's the wavelength of full wave 60 hz antenna? lol 300k m/s / 60 = 5000m ... this antenna appears to be about 20 cm long, so I believe it is 1/25000 of the wavelength.

@dirkbruere

Жыл бұрын

I think less turns, bigger capacitor and higher Q

In my city electrical poles are very near to buildings. On the third floor electrical wires are near the porch. Some people use umbrella frames to steal the electricity.

Great project!

60 Hz (or 50 Hz in Europe) is a very low frequency for a core consisting of ferrit. Wouldn't it be more effective to use an iron or steel core for the coil instead?

@flapjack9495

Жыл бұрын

The ferrite he used in this video is optimized for low frequencies, I think. I've seen some ELF stuff done with huge coils wound around DIY steel laminate cores built by bundling lengths of steel stock (like 1" by several feet, 1/8" thick). The individual pieces are coated with a nonconductive paint/epoxy/whatever to minimize eddy currents.

@bobboscarato1313

Жыл бұрын

In South America we use 50 Hz or cycles!

@maeanderdev

Жыл бұрын

@@flapjack9495 most ferrites were more permeable than steel. Ferrites do not use any "paint/epoxy/whatever" to adress eddy current issues. Ferrites were nonconductive by themselves, just like metal oxide ceramics were non conductive. Non conductive coating is verry common in transformer sheet metal core

@drd1924

Жыл бұрын

@@bobboscarato1313 We use 60 hz because it translates better for our clocks

@bobboscarato1313

Жыл бұрын

@@drd1924 In many places they use 50 Hz like in South America and they're happy!

This is how security access cards and FOBS work. The card reader puts out EMI , a coil in the card amplifies the EMI through capacitance, when the charge gets high enough, it activates the transmitter in the card, which puts out the signal to be read by the card reader. Pretty cool

This is real science, no BS. thank you for disseminating factual content

Would there be any point in having two coils in the device one out of phase with the other? Sort of a “balanced” line set up that would allow you to gather from wires that are out of phase which are too close together?

When you were near the substation taking readings, Did you factor in the aluminum fence grounding the emf emissions?

@Chimonger1

Жыл бұрын

Aluminum? Not many fences are aluminum…more fencing is galvanized steel.

@Coolgiy67

Жыл бұрын

@@Chimonger1 which is still a conductor of electricity. The fence acts as a “half/shitty faraday cage” but it will still block some of the electromagnetic waves

@Chimonger1

Жыл бұрын

@@Coolgiy67 I thot chain link should surely block EMFs, but had heard so many saying to use very close-knit mesh, like window screen, or even solid sheets of metal. There’s also conductive paint (spendy) that gets grounded by embedding a wire into it…it used to only come in black, but, any other paint can go on top of it, protecting the layer of conductive paint. For doing just a room, I’d likely use the paint, then hide it under light paint. But if redoing exterior of house as we’d like, I’d go for aluminum window screen, or maybe 1/2” mesh, as much less costly, & much easier to handle, & can layer over new insulation, under siding…& use a boat-grounding thing…I think those are zinc…they are just a lump or disk of metal you can connect to the grounding cord, & set under the crawlspace on the dirt. Make it easy to reach, because, eventually, those need replaced, same as the grounding rod for the house Mains panel.

@Coolgiy67

Жыл бұрын

@@Chimonger1 it doesn’t block all. For a faraday cage to work it has to be fully surrounding the thing it’s trying to protect from the emi and even still some will still get through. If you watch a video from professor lewin he shows that it makes the am radio stop working but the mike to the room still works.

@Chimonger1

Жыл бұрын

@@Coolgiy67 If that, then, what are folks s’posed to do, the protect at least a space in home that reliably might protect themselves during rest, or, protect their electronics?

You should try this under the wire antenna of a high power radio transmitter, something like a 1kw radio station. That would be interesting :)

@ronb6182

Жыл бұрын

Not it's stealing and radio stations won the lawsuit and criminal charges followed. ,73

@bobboscarato1313

Жыл бұрын

A friend of mine had a ham radio and all the critters in the ground disappeared.

@Chimonger1

Жыл бұрын

@@bobboscarato1313 Pest control! 🐭🐀

@aceg81

Жыл бұрын

You could definitely get far more power from a radio station with the right circuit, but you'd need to build a new device that's optimized to resonate at the station's frequency.

I remember a story of a farmer running a parallel cable to a high voltage line on his field. With a suitable transformer he was able to extract some useful power. Capacitively coupled in that case.

Did you compensate for the stray capacitance between coil turns when you figured the capacitance needed to resonate at 60 Hz? If all you needed was a few nanoFarads, you might have already had enough or more than enough even.

3:35 "...but it is electricity..." This is the point of view of the famous Nikola Tesla, when he proposed "powering the world" with one or more transmission towers. Perhaps he meant powering the world's wristwatches (but explicitly not your air conditioner). Eco-mentals also adopt the same "but it is electricity" when they propose spending vast resources to "harvest" inconsequential amount of electrical power from such nonsense as pedestrians walking on piezo-electrical sidewalks. Same with the utterly-idiotic Solar Roadways nonsense, burying solar panels below traffic. Numbers matter, as you've been very clear here, explicitly defining the magnitude of the power. Nicely done. Cheers.

@dzetta369

Жыл бұрын

It anorher way at word of somewere.

@G-ra-ha-m

Жыл бұрын

Tesla was documenting the systems left in the 1800s, after the mud flood.

I grew up in a rural community, our neighbours had 765kv transmission lines across their property. Needless to say our neighbour was able to erect a electric fence for their cattle by extending the wire in parallel with the towers. Those things crackled and buzzed like crazy even when it didn't rain.

@jamesfurney9651

Жыл бұрын

,hello I do the same , very high voltage line , on a hot day there no need to to tell the cattle its on , had one line for 20 years never connected to a electric fence powered unit, ireland not the best place to try to do this type of experiments ,

Man this is interesting to watch. The biggest reason you don't see any reasonable power around the subs/lines is because they design it that way. Could you imagine every fence, every car driving by all the sudden picks up a noticable amount of current rolling down the street? Would be a problem. (i mean it actually is a problem, fences around substations have to be carefully grounded because they WILL induce noticable and significant current, especially if a fault ever occurs. In reality, this is actually an extremely important effect to consider in power transmission systems and makes our jobs a lot harder. Those massive HV transmission lines aren't spread out for voltage reasons(the big insulators that hold them apart are all we need), they are spread out so far because with the amount of current we put on them the inductive coupling shown here across the whole length of wire can have some significant implications on both voltage at the recieving end and current capacity of the line.

would this add more load to the energy source for the magnetic field, i.e. does it "drag" on the current in the lines?

@MushookieMan

Жыл бұрын

Yes, because of the conservation of energy. Can't be broken.

I live within 100 metres of high voltage transmission lines. You know, the big cross-country ones. I wonder if it's possible to make this experiment a little bigger and set something up to charge batteries with 'free' power. I think the transmission lines are 66 thousand volts. Something on a wooden pole to get it closer to the lines but not close enough to get electroboomed.

Knew a guy who used electric blankets under high tension transmission lines to charge his rack of car batteries it worked.

@madbruv

Жыл бұрын

woah,

This video makes it clear how powerful knowledge is.

In the early 1900's some farmers ran an insulated wire down a fence line under or adjacent to a major power line and around the section to the farm house where the wire began. They ran the farm house on the powering, the lights and a radio. Ron W4BIN

audio quality: 😱😭

Now try by capacitive coupling. Using myself as a capacitor I can just put my hand around cable with 230V mains flowing through it and see the LED faintly glow. (Meter shows 11V, if I increase impedance to 1GOhm, it's even 76V!) How my circuit works: ~100nF output cap, one side attached to earth ground. The other side of output cap has a diode (1N4448) to my body (so current can only flow from myself into the output cap), then another diode from earth ground to myself (so current can only flow from earth ground to myself). Now somebody has to try that with a tinfoil umbrella under a power line.

@thomasmaughan4798

Жыл бұрын

You need more impedance matching. A fluorescent lamp works pretty well for this since has high impedance.

@chrisfuller1268

Жыл бұрын

Yes the power company delivers energy vial the electric nea-field, you are right.

Love the constant static sound throughout the video.

I heard a while back that in British Columbia they have Hydro Electric dams with high-voltage lines to the grid. These lines are in very remote locations. A Certain Bike gang have located these lines and wrapped wires around them producing their own electricity. They haves buried shipping containers and can now grow their own Dope. BC Bud is the brand name.

@iraa9935

2 ай бұрын

In CA, Chinese and Mexican drug dealers steal power all the time (* info from a Sheriff deputy who went after them - Chinese got a lawyer, sued for “invasion of privacy” when Sheriff dept used infrared scanners to detect unusually “hot” basements (growing rooms); they then asked power company for info about “ mansions” or houses with more-than- usually high power usage. One outfit buried 6 school buses to hide their “heat signature”. -- then CA legalized recreational use of marijuana, then a few Years later China-Mexico brought Fentanyl! ( The love of money if the root of all evil)

Apparently a guy around where I lived managed to do this to actually power his home. The electric company wasn't happy with him

@infinitepower6780

Жыл бұрын

Bet the company was pretty shocked when they found out

@jchoneandonly

Жыл бұрын

@@infinitepower6780 possibly. His excuse was it was easier to draw off their lines rather than making his own. I disagree with his methods but it is impressive anyway

@cyberp0et

Жыл бұрын

The company should pay God for offering them coal and the Sun and water and wind, but they don't. (And God does not need to ne paid with money)

@jchoneandonly

Жыл бұрын

@@cyberp0et that's probably the stupidest statement I've heard concerning this to be really frank. Im just going to assume the point you're trying to make is that they should just give out power freely and that makes these coils totally OK to use in any situation. God is pretty straight forward about stealing. Jesus is too. Using these coils to draw off the grid is stealing.

@Willbslaps

Жыл бұрын

​@@jchoneandonly 😂 you're a lost fool

I supposedly had an Uncle who used to do something like this but bigger and more efficient and had them under about 50 of those large metal power lines and resold the power back to them for decades until someone finally discovered it. Supposedly. As the story goes, it was giant coils about the same diameter as the base of each tower then somehow lightly covered/concealed.

@cyberp0et

Жыл бұрын

Burried in the ground :p

Use to live by High Voltage transmission lines, and in the right circumstances you could walk underneath them with an old fluorescent tube and it would start to glow.

actually I remember in the 80s, we have 22kv lines above the standard 240 3 phase on the streets. They arrested some people who had built a transformer in the roof and were growing....that stuff in the house using stolen electricity

As opposed to stealing 20 cents worth of electricity I would recommend you use your voice for radio and or voice over.

I find this shocking!😁

Can you try undre relay lines? Like those super high voltage between main stations? If they glow neons lights I always assumed they would leak a lot

Try this under a high tension line. Stick a copper pipe into the ground so that it stands as high as you are tall. (Better to make the tip pointed, use a screw) Next; stand or sit on a sturdy plastic pail next to copper pipe, but stay below the height of the pipe. While you are insulated from ground, reach up and place your finger just above the pipe’s tip. You will draw an arc, probably about 1/4 inch long *through your finger, to the pipe.* In this video you are using Joule thief through induction (Electro Magnetic Fields) it is better to use an Electro Motive Force (Voltage) siphon.

Word of advice, instead of Ferrite, use a powdered iron core. Ferrite is conductive and designed to absorb power for RFI and electrical noise suppression. This converts the energy into heat and reduces the output. A powdered Iron core on the other hand is designed to be magnetic, but have very little parasitic losses. This is the material used in Switch Mode Power Supply transformers. It looks like ferrite, but the difference is conductivity and thus the amount of power absorbed as heat.

@chrisfuller1268

Жыл бұрын

No, he should be coupling to the electric near field, not the magnetic near-field. The power company transports power via the electric field with as little energy as possible in the magnetic field.

@isettech

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisfuller1268 The electric field is only present in non insulated overhead wires as underground wires and insulated overhead wires are either coaxial, or twisted with the neutral so the field is very small. The current from coupling is very small unless you have a mile of uni-nsulated fence near high tension lines.

@chrisfuller1268

Жыл бұрын

@@isettech there is no electrical power distribution infrastructure which uses coaxial wire or twisted pair. I worked as an electrical engineer in power distribution design early in my career. Where are you getting your information?

bro, replace the ferrite core with neodymium magnet (or just stick some neodymium onto it), it would be more sensitive also make a bigger winding and connect the coil to the ground, since ground has direct connection to electric substation i think those will improve your device dramatically, would be better if yo do caps volt multiplication

@paulanthonybridge5741

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, he is so damn stupid to use ferrite for 60 hertz fields, and the coil is untuned to this frequency and that is double-stupid. My goodness what a braindead jerk......

@chrisfuller1268

Жыл бұрын

No the problem is trying to collect magnetic fields from a source of electric fields (primarily)

@paulanthonybridge5741

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisfuller1268 Chris Fuller, correct. But only iron cores will collect 60 hertz fields efficiently. (Ferrite is for 10 khz to 2 megahertz !!!). Use many coils in series, with connecting iron bars between the coils ends. (Relay coils are fine, use 220 volt type of relay preferably). And remove the other parts from the coils. Then tune the coil array to resonance with a capacitor.

"Speaking of the power company, let's pay them a visit." Subbed.

A few years ago I took an LED and connected two wires to it and took it under the large high power cross country transmission lines that crossed the property. However I held it, it would light up. If I took one wire and grounded it, and or took one wire and connected it to any larger object it would get brighter. If I wanted to get a bright light I could connect it to a large metal cattle gate on a wooden post. This would make it bright as the large gate would gather more power. Holding one wire higher also made it brighter (the power did not have as far to go). If I connected one end to a grounded object (such as the metal T fence post driven into the ground) it got brighter. If I held onto one end of it it got brighter (my body acting like an antenna.) This was done at night and the brightness level was generally low, and it varied with every movement and the status of the connection was constantly changing. Power was leaking from the AC power lines, running through the air and going into the ground. Adding a wire into the air space under the power lines provided a route with less resistance for the power to travel and power always took the method with the least resistance. The amount of power that this harvested, was ultra tiny. (The LED had come out of a light using tiny coin cell batteries.) (This was also repeated with an LED from a cheap flashlight.) Technically, I could get enough light to read by.

I didn't understand much of the formulas and diagrams, but this was very interesting -- thank you for posting this info. 👍

I wonder how much you could get if you put one on the roof of a house that is setting under the really high power lines. (The ones that run 4 to 6 arms with 4 lines per arm). My grate grandparents used to live under a some. They would light a fluorescent bulb in your hand just walking outside.

Thanks for a very nice video👍🏽

I was OIC in charge of a USGOV HF radio transmission facility in the Philippines….many moons ago. The antenna field was about 85 acres of land that gave home to about 40 antennas of differing shapes, sizes and in compass bearings from 0 degrees azimuth, all the way back around to 360 degrees once again. The antenna field was home to a number of farmers who would raise crops of rice and teams of caribou, who were the “engines” that drove the plowing of the fields. The farmers were technically not allowed to occupy the antenna field, but as long as they stayed out of my way, I stayed out of theirs. To my point….all of the grass and mud nippa huts had free lighting at night, which consisted of four-foot florescent light tubes (unconnected at both ends of the tube) that glowed because they siphoned enough electricity to make the phosphorescent coating in the tubes to glow. The only downside was that there was no way to turn off the light off at bed-time. I figured I could afford to lose a few watts from the original 50KW the transmitter was putting out. Oh….somewhere in time I found out they were using fluorescent tubes that had been stolen from US base supply warehouses, and that is when I stomped my foot and made them pay for the tubes, or be kicked off the field. They grudgingly agreed. At least the tubes lasted for many years, so I wasn’t all grinch about it.

i live within a few 100 feet of 500 kva transmission lines. i have been able to measure nearly 20 v off of the metal drip edge under the shingles, and a ground source. whish i had a way of harnessing this power. only issue is it varies depending on load on the overhead lines. you can def hear a diff in the sound produced by the lines.

@dl5244

Жыл бұрын

more likely what you hear is corona from the electric field (E-field is produced by voltage, not the magnetic field that is produced by current) changing with humidity and temperature. The (open circuit) voltage you measure is likely a stray E-field effect induced in your multimeter. Handheld voltmeters tend to be very susceptible... On a 3-phase transmission line, the electric and magnetic fields cancel out very rapidly as soon as you are ~10x the conductor separation away.

The tale I heard was a rancher had property with a very long border which a power line ran along. So he put up a fence on the property line with an electric fence wire that was actually set up to convert the magnetic field from the power line to AC.

I am already thinking about the applications for these. I would be impressive if you could build one powerful enough to say trickle charge a cell phone or a radio.

Re stealing mains power: As a rock and roll roadie, once (in the 70s) when we didn't have owner permission to take power for an outdoor concert, we threw a couple of welding rods up and over the street power cables. Crazy. Dangerous. But worked.