High impedence electrometer low cost

[Mike(Mont)]

Anybody have any thoughts on the four corner ground probes with the ball of wadded aluminum foil on top? Do you think these can lower the potential gradient around the target area during unfavorable conditions? Ground frozen here so I will have to wait.

[Mike(Mont)]

I don't think the lightning rod idea is going to help.

[Mike(Mont)]

Still have not done anything with this project but I want to get going on it. Abbe Mermet wrote about magnetic images of a target. "The greater the height and the power of the sun, or the more the atmosphere is charged with electricity, the more intense these deceptive images are." He talked about working at night or after a rain. SO there it is, the atmospheric electrical potential gradient. There is a website in Great Britain that monitor the potential gradient, but the effects are highly localized--your area will very likely be different. Oh yeah, Mermet said these disturbances are usually short-lived. http://www.met.Reading.ac.uk/weather..._graphs.html#8

Scroll down near the bottom of the page. You can see it is variable.

[Mike(Mont)]

If you have seen a diagram of the potential gradient lines over a person or object, the lines curve up over the person and are squeezed together. Abbe Mermet said if you are in fading conditions "one must wait until it is over. Fading is usually of short duration, but frequent. But if one cannot wait, I have found a means of suppressing fading. It consists in holding in the air, in the left hand, in the exact direction of the sun, either a raised finger or a pointed rod held vertically." This will raise the gradient lines even higher. That pointed rod must act something like a lightning rod. I hope this helps someone.

BTW, I just came off a fifty-three year friendship of a brutal narcissist. If I seem touchy or too sensitive, you know why. At least for this guy it's "No more mister nice guy." But I am hyper-aware of this trait now in other people. I don't like my generosity being taken advantage of. Yeah, my ignorance on the subject. Keep these type of people out of your life. They hold you back and don't want you to succeed. Pretty much impossible to be on the forums and not encounter this type. Okay. enough of my sermon.

[Mike(Mont)]

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_09.html

This is a good.

The lines are shown in figure 9-1 (b)

[Mike(Mont)]

Paraphrased here ?When the pendulum is held at the level of the eyes, water found at 40 - 50 meters. Held at waist, 100 meters, knees 250 m, ankles, 300 - 400 meters.Therefore, everything takes place as if the pendulum, lowered slowly, were going through magnetic layers.? So it makes sense if you hold up a pointed rod, your locator will be in a lower layer and work better.

[Mike(Mont)]

I realize some people might think this is dowsing only. I do not think so, but I will continue this Abbe Mermet part over on the Dowsing page.

[Mike(Mont)]

Here is info on building an ion chamber. They use a 10 mega ohm multimeter. The above electrometer has 10 tera ohms. That is a million times more sensitive. Might have to build this one for checking potential gradient. https://techlib.com/science/ion.html

[Mike(Mont)]

Ions: If youwear synthetic clothing, the total number of ions surrounding you will decrease. Stay at least one meter away from objects. The more small ions, the more conductive the air and the lower the potential gradient. Lower potential gradient allows the molecules to to achieve a stronger excitation. Large ions travel at 0.0005 cm per second. Clear air has low gradient, higher when there is haze, and very high when fog prevails (2,000 volts per meter have been recorded.

[Mike(Mont)]

You can view air quality index near your area. www.iqair.com Clean air is better for any locating.

[Mike(Mont)]

Synthetic clothing is everywhere. My hat, my shirt, my jacket, my pants, all at least 65% polyester, jacket says 100% and one says 98%. I suggest you check your clothing and go all cotton or wool, or maybe hemp fiber. LOL I sure saw an improvement in signal strength with L-rods. ANY locating equipment you should see an improvement.

Funny thing one map dowser said to wear orlon socks. Well, that's synthetic. Easy enough to find out for yourself. Another dowser says to wear leather-soled shoes. I might interject here natural shoes. Kanye West sells natural shoes. They are expensive. I've heard other say to go barefoot. I guess you could call that "leather " soles. LOL In the end, it might simply depend upon locating conditions--good conditions you can carry your cellphone, wear synthetic everything. But weak days I woud try everything and this is easy to check the labels on your clothing. Hope this helps someone.

[Mike(Mont)]

Natural clothing can work wonders but it can't do miracles. If the locator does not work, nothing is going to help except maybe psychic powers. For this who didn't read earlier posts, synthetic clothing reduces the number of ions surrounding the person. The radioactive power loads found on some locators, I have to believe the purpose is to create more ions around the person. Sixty years ago there was not nearly as much synthetic clothing as there is now. Another thing yu can try is get one of those ion power band bracelets. These actually have a slight radioactivity that creates the ions. You can ever wrap it around the locator. Again,best to wear natural clothes in order to get the full effect. Hope this helps someone. Some ion bracelets have little or no ions so get one that has an advertised number on ions.

[Mike(Mont)]

I bought one years ago made out of silicone with a holograph on it. Says 1800 ions per second. Do you own research---I saw one said 4000 ions per second. Probably soem youtube video shows a guy measuring the ion count. The one I got says True Power. The silicone is like a big rubber band.