I remember a story I heard about a farmer doing something like this, cept
he ran some cable for a few miles burried just beneath the surface for a
mile or two along the power lines cutting his property. He ran his whole
farm off it.

Too bad he was discovered and busted.

At 12:57 PM 6/4/99 +1200, you wrote:
>Slightly OT.
>        I remember from a long time ago, seeing an way of getting low power
>from thin air. You need a circuit resonant at the frequency of your local AM
>transmitter, an antenna and earth and a rectifier tapped into the coil.
>Instant free energy. With the low power requirements of a PIC it just might
>be possible!(When I tried it I found I needed a longish wire antenna - but I
>also needed several milliamps)
>
>Anyone else tried this?
>
>Richard
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Donald Riedinger [mailto:drr9@HOME.COM]
>> Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 12:32 PM
>> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>> Subject: data over DC power lines
>>
>>
>> Data over DC power lines?  How about parasite power derived from the
>> communication line?  It's easier to half wave rectify and
>> filter data to
>> power a PIC than to drive data into a battery.  Maybe it's just
>> perspective or nomenclature.  Have you ever seen
>> www.dallassemiconductor.com and their 1-wire (tm) chips? Cool.  And,
>> "Remember: credit card orders are limited to 10 pieces or less except
>> for iButton products".  Can you believe that from a major chip manf.?
>>
>> Don
>>
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