Making a Parasite Zapper Circuit with Steven Chiverton

Posted by Swagatam Majumdar

An interesting electronic parasite zapper circuit shown below was successfully built and tested
by my friend Mr. Steven Chiverton. Let's learn more about the proposed circuit.
Email received from Mr. Steven:
"Hey swagatam did you see the latest pictures I put in my SkyDrive, 4060 integrated circuit type
parasite zappers built before but recently installed it into a plastic box enclosure.
The latest one I decided to test on my sore knee, despite having a box full of various ones I built
over the years this one I made to pass some free time away and decided to test it out.
I used copper coins for electrodes, each coin was sanded flat on one side with a sharpening stone
used for chisel's and knifes, so anyhow the first test I used the coin electrodes on each side of the
sore knee joint for a short time.
The next night I decided to try it longer as the pain eased a little the first time, so as I watched
TV for about an hour I had the coin electrodes above and below the knee joint, and every few
minutes I moved them slightly, during this I noticed a slight pain felt in my knee joint between
the coin electrodes, so I thought it odd as I wasn't moving or subjecting any stress to that knee
joint.
After a short time the pain went and didn't come back and the next day is the same no pain at all,
its all cured and I'm not getting pains trying to stand up or sit down when I bend that knee joint,
so that's a great story.
I reckon the small pain may have been a sign that something is working right, now for the back
pain I'm getting think it may be a pulled muscle or other."
Parasite zapper circuit using IC 4060:

"New copper coin electrodes for my parasite zapper, these are really neat and can be modified to
be able to be secured Velcro strap for parasite zapping this is one of a number of pictures I've
uploaded to SkyDrive..."

"My previous designs were based on transistors and other ICs, here are the pics of those
previously built parasite zapper models:

The above is a pulse frequency driver circuit i built from a YouTube video i
have made some changes to it i didn't have a bigger size 220uf electro to
put into it only small ones so i used the wrong value and put in a 2200uf/35
volts electro, and the 1n4148 diode.
Well it didn't seem to make the led come on even when powering a motor
similar to what the fellow on the net used, so i threw in a 1n60 geranium
diode and now the led seems to work some times due some unknown factor,
but even without the led coming on it stills puts out enough voltage to power
a motor.
So when the led is supposed to come on for reasons i don't know yet is a
mystery i think, at first i wrote the circuit down from the YouTube video then
made it onto a bread board and it worked and the led came on when i
powered the electric motor.
I have but when i made the printed circuit version and transferred the parts
from the bread board onto it the led wouldn't then come on, when i powered
the same motor so i checked the parts on the printed circuit and they all
were OK, so i built another bread board one, and it works again even though
the printed circuit versions led doesn't come on when i powered the motor
the identical circuit on the other works ok very strange.
So its led comes on too, so i rechecked it on the bread board to find out why
it works and not the other, i then found I've mistakenly put in a 1n60 diode
so maybe that's why the led comes on when powering a motor.
I changed the 1n4148 diodes on the printed circuit to the same as on the
bread board and now the led still doesn't lite up when powering the same
motor only some times it blinks when I'm handling the motor due to some
unknown factor, but despite this they still power the motor and put out
enough zap onto my tongue to qualify as an experimental parasite zapper,
really i built this from a hand drawn circuit on the net to test on my star ship
coils.

Here's some new pictures of that multi parasite zapper all installed and also
the 2 electrodes made from small white pvc elbow joiners
used, for pvc pipes.
The actual electrodes are copper 2 cent coins filed flat on one side of each
coin so as to provide a good contact with your skin , the best way to avoid
that brown tarn that forms on copper surfaces in this case was to use a
smear of aloevera gel, and you can also use aloevera to help the pulses to
conduct better into your skin to the aloevera gel does dry out quick or absorb
into your skin pretty fast, so its just a matter of applying more aloevera gel
to the electrodes or the skin. "

Updates from Steven:

Dear swagatam, I did an experiment to test this zapper circuit that runs off the 12 volts sla
battery, again this time I used my transistor version gravity wave detector to see what else this
gravity wave detector can really sense, and to my surprise I got some baffling results like I once
did with another parasite zapper I tested a few years ago and used a gravity wave detector circuit
as a receiver for anything it may give off in energy or other. with the parasite zapper hooked up
to my slab battery and the headphones plugged into my gravity wave detector I received a high
pitch humming like sound the copper pipe hand hold electrodes of my parasite zapper and the
positive puts out a stronger energy than the negative and I can even tap out morse codes on that
positive pipe electrode with my finger and hear it loudly through the headphones as for the
negative well its very low sounding but the strange thing is that the sensitive gravity wave
detector sensor ceramic capacitor has to be picking something up coming from the positive
electrode and it sounds similar to what I get when I slide that copper pipe electrode up and down
behind my right ear while holding the negative electrode so its a bit of a mystery as to what's
being given off stronger by just the one copper positive pipe electrode even if the negative is left
alone and no contact made to it , so with the details of my tests here the parasite zapper is
transmitting something that my gravity wave detector can hear and if I cup my hand over near

the sensor capacitor the sound is silenced so as if my hand is acting as a shield like it dose in
some of my sec exciter experiments where the hand put near the gravity wave detector is
shielding it from to much rf ac energy in the air transmitted from the sec excitor coil. in this case
with the parasite zapper its a measured dc output voltage so no ac rf involved so how and why
the signal is being received from the positive electrode so strongly on the transistor version
gravity wave detector is a mystery . there's no chokes no coils in the parasite zapper , ill try see if
there's any rf wave coming from the parasite zapper by using my high sensitivity long range av
plug design and my shortwave receiver and ill try using the ac setting on my meter to see if
there's an ac component in it to.