> Couldn't this just have to do with the humidity of the air and static build
> up?
>
> Ed
>
Thanks for asking!Sorry I neglected to indicate that the caps in the Hodowanec
circuits are electrolytic, so they are more subject to swings in temperature
than humidity.
Regarding static buildup, remember that these caps are wired such that current
intentionally flows through them. A current is immediately applied when the
circuit is turned on. It is not the voltage but rather the changes in this
CURRENT which are being detected by the circuit. The output generates noise - a
tremendous amount of it. Yet in this noise are audible signatures of the
motions of nearby masses. You can swing a heavy pendulum toward such a circuit
and hear an additional periodic "hiss" in your speaker as the mass moves back &
forth in perfect synchronization with the sound. (There is even more to this.)
The Hodowanec effects are detectable by components other than capacitors. For
example, one gentleman is using crystal transducers from old depth sounders to
detect the same effects, but with greater independence of temperature. These
are transducers employing barium zirconate or barium titanate crystals, and to
my knowledge, these are not subject to the same self-charging effects associated
with capacitors. Yet they exhibit the same "gravitational" sensitivity.
I am not able to "see" a mechanism by which the bouceback effect mentioned in an
earlier post would cause any of this behavior in a crystal.
On the contrary, that some piezo crystals might be electrically responsive to
compression of space would seem intuitively very appealing. These same
apparently "gravitational" phenomena are detected with either an electrolytic
capacitor or a crystal transducer.
(Barium Titanate has interesting properites. The crystal is also used in laser
applications as a phase-conjugate mirror. It automatically phase conjugates
incident light waves.)
Regards,
Doug Renner
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Renner <dougr@adeptit.com>
> To: KeelyNet-L@lists.kz <KeelyNet-L@lists.kz>
> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 8:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Hodowanec (was re: Capacitors self charging?)
>
> >Terry Bastian wrote:
> >
> >> The below idea is the basis for the biefield brown effect in reverse and
> >> howendec detectors of gravity work
> >>
> >> gravity is affecting the dielectric and causing the caps to charge....
> >>
> >
> >My intuitive understanding of the capacitor's function in the Hodowanec
> style
> >detector is that an external CURRENT passed through the dielectric will
> >fluctuate since the gravitational waves modulate the volume of space
> itself,
> >making the plates move closer together & farther apart.
> >
> >(This is reflected in the configuration of the op-amps as "current to
> voltage"
> >convertors.)
> >
> >The capactitor in a Hodowanec detector may be key because the pheonomenon
> is so
> >small that either a large plate size is required for a noticeable effect,
> and/or
> >perhaps the passage of electrons between the plates may be "relatively"
> >unaffected by any space distortion.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Doug Renner
> >
> >PS:
> >
> >A burleycue dancer, a pip
> >named Virginia could peel in a zip.
> >But she read Science Fiction
> >and died of constriction
> >attempting a Moebius strip.
> >
> >-)
> >
> >
> >> Terry B
> >>
> >> At 02:12 PM 5/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >> >Matthew Redmond wrote:
> >> >> This is something that happens to every stationary capacitor I have
> run
> >> >> across so far. People who work with really large caps (some Ham's)
> are
> >> >> usually told to strap them down when not in use because the voltages
> they
> >> >> produce can be rather bad.
> >> >
> >> >Has a rate of charge collection ever been established? Periodically
> this
> >> topic
> >> >resurfaces and gets bounced around, but I don't recall if anyone has
> ever
> >> >quantified the effect.
> >> >
> >> >No big deal, just curious...... 8^)
> >> >
> >> >
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