Joe Cell Update: 23 April 2006
Adrian’s discussion with Peter Stevens
This document contains:-
Introduction * Electricity * Applying Electricity * Electrical Supply * Magnetism * Cylinder Cleaning * Water Cleaning and Charging * Cylinder Spacers * Spacer at the Base of the Cylinder Set * Cell Design * Cell Placement * Cell Fastening * Flashing the Cell * Sparking the Crankshaft Pulley * Conduction Pipe * Connection of the Conduction Pipe and Adjustment of Timing * Tips and interest in no particular order
Introduction
What follows is a presentation of material taken from a video interview conducted with Peter Stevens on 23 April 2006 and reordered into categories that are important to the cell builder. It is not a full explanation of how to make and run a Joe Cell. It relies on the reader having a background in cell work. The quickest way to get that background is to read “The Experimenter Guide to the Joe Cell” (hereafter “the Guide”). This document emphasises, adds to, and in some cases modifies, what you read in the Guide. Readers will also need a copy of the cell drawings, as found on the Yahoo group Joecell2, alongside them when reading the section entitled “Cell Design”,
Electricity
In order to talk about the use of electricity in cell work (“cellery”) you have to get used to an alternative way of thinking about how electricity works.
In school we were told that the negative terminal and the positive terminal of a battery delivered no electricity at all when they were attached to loads one without the other. We were told that it was only when they were connected across a load that you would have any actual electricity. We were told that electricity was a flow between the terminals across the load. Well according to the view of electricity you are going to get here that view of electricity is incomplete. The negative terminal of a battery is active when connected to a load without any connection, or involvement at all, with the positive terminal. This may also be true of the positive terminal, but the positive terminal is not used alone in cellery. In what follows, the action of a negative terminal of a dc power source with no positive attached will be referred to as “negative electricity”, When talking of negative electricity the term “load” is also rather misleading so it will not be used again
Applying Electricity
There is a general rule with the application of electricity that comes up repeatedly in cell work. When you want to charge water in a cell or charging vat, first, you apply negative electricity, then you attach your positive lead (and normal electricity will flow), then you take off the positive lead and return to negative electricity, then you (sometimes) take off the negative. We will call this “the negative first and last, rule”. Please take careful note that you should not rush steps one or four when you apply this procedure. When you put on that negative allow significant time to elapse before you put on your positive. It is doing something!
Closely related to this procedure are two principles of the application of electricity in cellery. The first is that the energy we are dealing with is negative in charge and is therefore attracted to positive. It follows from this that you put your negative potentials where you want your energy to flow from, and you put your positive potentials where you want it to flow to.
BUT that is just to get things started. You take the positive off pretty quickly because the second principle is that the energy does not like positive electricity at all, so you want to minimise the involvement of positive in the entire process of cellery. Timings are given below.
Electrical Supply
For your electricity supply you are either using a 12v car battery, a 12 volt battery charger that delivers preferably linear (not pulsed) dc, or a variable dc power supply set to about 12 volts of preferably linear (not pulsed) dc.
Magnetism
It isn’t that important that your cylinders be of very low magnetism. Magnetism does have a negative effect on the good working of the cell, so it is preferable to have good quality (low carbon) steel if that can be arranged easily, but the effects of magnetism can be overcome as follows.
1. Line up all your seams (assuming you are not using drawn tubes). The seams are often the most magnetic part of the tube so by lining them up you only have one segment of the cell that may be of reduced effectiveness. If, after doing that, you have tubes or seams that you suspect are interfering with cell performance because of magnetism there are three more ways to go.
2. Cylinder rotation. Take the cylinder that you think may be at fault and rotate it 90 degrees clockwise. There are only four possibilities for clockwise relative rotation of just one cylinder in a four-cylinder-plus-outer-canister car cell.
3. Striking and sparking the cylinders. Get a 12v battery and align it with its negative pole East and its positive terminal West. Put your negative lead on the outside of the base of the tube. Then strike the cylinder along its seam with a hammer (along it’s length if there is no seam).. Then spark the inside of the tube at the top with your positive. Then take off your negative. The striking of the hammer disrupts the alignment of the ions Note: it is essential to spark your tubes if you have polished them.
4. Cylinder inversion. Cylinders have lengthwise alignment of magnetic-type swirl of frequency. You want all your North poles (positives) at the top and all your South poles (negatives) at the bottom. The way you test the cylinders in this regard is with an L-rod which is a type of divining instrument. John carter is the expert on this and he has put up comprehensive instructions elsewhere. Also, check out Walter Russell on this, he explained what he termed “twin field poles”.
Cylinder Cleaning
Only ever electro-clean the cell cylinders. Therefore, do not chemically clean them! To do this you reverse the current along the length of each tube with the cell fully assembled.
Start with the outermost cylinder.
(i) Put your positive on the inside skin at the top of the cylinder and your negative on the outside skin at the bottom. Leave this in place for one minute.
(ii) Put the negative on the inside skin at the top and your positive on the outside skin at the bottom. Leave this in place for one minute
(iii) Repeat (i) above.
When you have done this to the outermost cylinder go on to next cylinder until all the cylinders have had the treatment
Water Cleaning and Charging
You can use water out of the tap as long as you largely clear it of the chemicals put in there by the water company (alum, chlorine, flourides etc.}. To do this you can use a cell.
Put your tap water in the cell then do the procedure described above under “Applying Electricity”. Put the negative of your 12volt battery, battery charger or 12 volt dc supply on for between 2 and 20 minutes at the base of the cell, then put on the positive at the top of the cell’s outer cylinder for between 2 and 3 minutes leaving the negative in place, then take off the positive and leave negative on for up to an hour. Pour the water into a glass container or plastic bucket. Repeat. After 24 hours what will happen is the chemicals in the water in the bucket will have become solids; some will have dropped to the bottom and some will have risen to the top, depending on what charge they acquired in the process. Pour off the solids at the top, then pour the middle (clean) water into your cell, then throw away the stuff in the bottom.
You can use pulsed dc for his but flat dc is better because it works faster.
No electrolyte should be added.
You can do the same process as above with a charging vat but you will wind up with a good deal more water and no need to fiddle about with repeating your charge procedure. In passing, and while we are talking about charging vats, those cones that you see in The Experimenters Guide to the Joe Cell come from milk/cream separators as used in dairies.
Cylinder Spacers
These should be of natural rubber. Some Buna-N O-ring material works but some O-ring material is mineral based, or contains iron in the colouring and this shorts out the cell. You need to get this right.
If the spacers are of tubular rubber they should be set with the tunnels of the tubes all pointing inwards towards the centre of the cell when viewed from above. This is more difficult to do than setting them with the tunnels of the tubes in alignment with the cylinders longitudinal aspect, but it is important to get this detail right to prevent shorting.
Spacer at the base of the cylinder set.
This should be of alabaster or the same plastic used in kitchen cutting boards
Cell Design
The following is expressed as a set of deviations from the design found in The Experimenters Guide to the Joe Cell.
Bill’s drawings, as found on joecell2, are essentially right. Have them by you as you read this. Deviations in this text override the drawings.
Do not to use a 1 inch tube at the centre as your cathode. It gives the energy insufficient space to resonate.
Apply your negative charge to the outside skin of the 2 inch tube by ...
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