These are attempts to replicate the Linden Experiment. They're preliminary tests, published here mainly to get feedback/help/advice. Some things I'd like to know:

• Am I doing the Lecher lines properly?
• How can I test if I'm getting any standing waves at all?

First try with meter magnet

The guess here is that a lecher line is providing a electromagnetic frequency for the coil wrapped around the magnet. The coil would therefore be causing a fluctuation on the existing magnetic field. I'm also trying different orientations for the lecher line and hence the use of a compass. The lecher line is mage up of two parallel bare copper wires coming from the coil wrapped around the magnet and also a U shaped piece for the other end. The length is adjusted by sliding the U shaped piece past the two wires coming from the coil until the desired length is reached. The parts are then clipped together using aligator clips.

The following shows how I'm measuring for any voltage that may have built up on the capacitor. The test procedure is to first set the orientation of the lecher line using the compass as guide and then to:

1. set the length of the lecher line,
2. arrange the capacitor so the copper plate was on the north pole side,
3. insert the capacitor into the gap such that the plates overlap each other fully,
4. wait a few seconds,
5. measure the voltage,
6. shorten the overlap of the plates (i.e. reduce the capacitance),
7. go back to 4. above and repeat until only a little overlap is left,
8. if the copper plate is north, change it to the south pole side and go back to step 3.
9. go back to 1. above.

Note that with the positive lead on the copper plate and both plates held as in the photo above, I always measure 540mV or slightly less, depending on how much the plates overlap. If I reverse the leads such that the positive lead is on the aluminium plate instead, then the meter needle swings below zero. If I repeat the measurement away from the magnet then I see the same. If I use a plastic clamp instead of my fingers to hold the plates then I see zero volts. So obviously my fingers are providing a bias. But I must use my fingers to replicate what Paul Baumann did so the bias may be necessary.

First try with 10cm horseshoe magnet

On this page of Tom Bearden's, he says:

See Figure 22. Here's how "difficult" it is to build a free energy flow generator. Take a charged capacitor. Lay it across a permanent magnet so that the "static" E-field of the capacitor is at right angles to the "static" H field of the magnet. That maximizes the generator's available EM energy flow, which is a dynamic flow expressed as S = k(E´H) by orthodox theory. That silly thing sits there and pours out energy indefinitely { [62] , [63] , [64] }. Substitute an electret for the capacitor, and you don't even have to recharge it. That's a certified free energy generator. The only problem is in how to capture the steadily flowing energy and use it { [65] }.

Because of this I decided to try my Linden Experiment setup with a horseshoe magnet. Note that with the meter magnet, as used above, the capacitor's electric field lines are neither fully parallel nor perpendicular to the magnetic field lines due to the round section at the poles and so may still apply to the above theory. Also, as stated above in red, there is a very slight 540mV electric field between the capacitor plates being provided with the help of my fingers. I tried with a keeper, as in one of the photos below, because there may in fact be keepers in use in the two disk small machine.

With a keeper...

... and without.

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