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Originally posted by rickoff
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Also, the Ascanius video and documentary material links posted early on don't seem to function.
Did everyone give up on further experimentation, or did a different thread become the focus of further discussion on this subject?
I saw a video some time ago that appears to use this method, and am wondering if it is the same as what was seen in the Ascanius video, which I can't seem to locate in Internet searches. In the video that I saw, the setup was applied in what appeared to be someone's cellar. A sheet metal aerial of about 3 ft by 4 ft dimension was spray painted with a dark coating to insulate it, and it was suspended from the cellar ceiling. Thus, it couldn't have been more than maybe a foot above actual ground level, and probably no more than 5 ft above the cellar floor. The ground rod was steel, and placed 1 ft deep in the cellar floor. These were attached to a 50 gang circuit board of the type said in PK's write-up to have been used by Dragan Kljajic in obtaining an output of about 96 watts continuous. The circuit board was connected to a transformer to feed four 100 watt light bulbs, and lit them up what appeared to be quite brightly in the video, but this effect may well be caused by the dark cellar environment the video was made in. Even a 4 watt night light bulb can look very bright, of course, when viewed in darkness. Thus, since I could clearly see the "100watt" marking on the bulbs when viewing a still image close-up, I would guess that the actual output was well under 400 watts, or it would have been blindingly bright in the darkness and the markings on the bulbs would not have shown. Still, even if somewhere between 50 and 100 watts, as Kljajic is said to have achieved, this would show that the method does have potential, especially if it can be further enhanced without being cost prohibitive. As an earlier posting suggested, a ready made solar panel, purchased for less than the cost in parts and labor to prepare an Ascanius setup, may well achieve the same or better results. The difference, of course, is that the Ascanius setup could produce power 24/7.
I wasn't about to accept this demo as being factual unless someone in this thread was able to achieve similar results that verified it as something other than a hoax, so didn't rush out to obtain the required parts, and would advise others contemplating a 50 gang or larger experiment to hold off until there is more validation. Still, the work done by participants in this thread is applauded as lending credibility to the concept and discovering that certain enhancements can greatly improve results.
So, once again, I'm wondering why experimentation in this thread suddenly appears to have ceased nearly a year ago, and would like to know why, if someone knows the answer to that question.
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