Homemade solar cell

[Ozarkorganicshiitake]

Can't hear a darn thing?

[ochmell]

@Ozarkorganicshiitake That's because there's no sound. You have an impressive power of inductive reasoning.

[TheGlamorouskiller]

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[ponka247]

good work. but as we know solar cell do work with out water :( if you can made that so it will more help full for me because in my country electricity go for 10 to 14 hours daily and solar cell is so expensive here.. :(

[TheMRGHABRIEL]

what did you mix in the water salt ?

[ochmell]

@TheMRGHABRIEL What is 'water salt'? I've heard of salt water. If that's what you meant to write then nothing. It is just salt water. If you read... well, ANY of the comments already made on this video you can see that it is plain salt water.

[ghoku14]

no what i mean is ill try it to charge a car battery it self only,(w/o the car)and ill use it with an inverter to use it in my house electricity,,

[ochmell]

@ghoku14 Well it's doable, but not worth the effort. You have another problem; ALL household appliances run on 120 Volts, although very few amps. Now, I don't want to shut down your dream; but neither do I want you to start an electrical fire.

[ghoku14]

how many of it should i needed to make to atleast charge a car battery for a whole day to use it at night?

[ochmell]

@ghoku14 Well, as you can see from this video, the cells are unspeakably inefficient, and produce only 1.5 milliVolts. A car battery needs 12 volts. You do the math. The other issue you face is Amperage; the cell only put out 15.5 milliAmps, and a car requires 2 Amps. If you do the math, you'll realize that either you'll get too low of a voltage or too high of an amperage; to get the right numbers you have to wire the cells up differently; as in, wire them in series or in parallel.

[ochmell]

@ghoku14 So, to get the right values for your car, you're going on the order of hundreds of cells.

This is all assuming, however, that you have a gasoline engine. Electric engines are completely different and require completely different Voltages and Amperages. My suggestion to you is to not mess with this, you'll probably end up burning out your battery; instead, take the thousands of dollars you'd end up spending on copper and buy a bike

[ghoku14]

can i use gas stove instead of e stove on burning the coppers??

[ochmell]

@MrMatt027 It's actually one copper plate, one treated copper plate (heated so that it has a layer of cuprous oxide) in saline tap water.

[nasanction]

you used more electricity to cook the copper then you will ever recover with the cell.

Cool though...

[ICuIntube]

yes, is a solar cell... Very primitive/creative

[datzfast]

nice galvanic effect measurement.

[phick68]

lame. no sound? what exactly are you doing and why? how much electricity did you use to make these and how long will the cells last?  what's that analysis, Newton?

[ochmell]

Sorry to correct you, pspheaven, but it is a combination of three capacitors which are excited by sunlight, making them solar cells. It contains TWO metals (copper and cuprous oxide) and a DIELECTRIC (saline water)

You may be in principals of technology, computer networking and electronics classes, but you'll never be able to argue with anyone if you don't know your information and are unable to form your ideas into complete sentences with proper grammar and structure.

[shadywalker]

@ochmell Doesnt the saline solution serve as an electrolyte in order to transfer the electrons from one plate to another? I doubt it is a dielectric, since you would be better off with pure water if your after an insulator. Aslo, considering the difference between a solar cell and a PV cell, this is not a solar cell. It is a photo-voltaic cell.. Please, correct me if I am wrong, I am interested in making my own cells, and I find this method interesting.

[ghoku14]

@ochmell ,,hi,can i use gas stove instead of e stove on burning the coppers??

[ghoku14]

and can i use salted water or battery water instead of dielectric saline water?

[ochmell]

@ghoku14 You CAN use a gas stove, but you'll fun the risk of any biproducts of the burning gas (smoke residue) ending up on the copper. For the most part, however, natural gas burns clean. You can use any kind of water that conducts electricity; the lower the resistance the better.

[pspheaven]

It is not a solar cell its a battery containing to different metals and an electrolyte

I'm in principals of technology and computer networking and electronics classes.

[datzfast]

@pspheaven you are correct sir. and that all that matters to anyone except the incorrect.

[RedVampireGirl]

TOTALLY a solar cell.

[pspheaven]

NOT a solar cell!

[RedVampireGirl]

Yes, it is.