When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to charge your iPod! With the Lemons! I'm going to get my engineers to design an electric Lemon that charges you iPod!
couldnt you take the voltaic pile into a cup of lemon juice without the cardboard and to keep them together just put a dab a super glue in between each or even soldering each penny together
THANK YOU THANK YOU THAAAAANK YOUU!!!!!! im making a solar powered ipod using the same wiring method. this is going to help me so much now, because i didnt know what to do with the ipod charger! You have saved me!
im surprised to see college physics students talking about voltage, which is completely unimportant. the sweetness is the CURRENT!!!!!!! i can give you voltage all day that wont do anything at micro amperage.. the most important thing, the MAIN GOAL, the payoff, is CURRENT.. give me however many volts i need, thats fine, but give me like 500-600 mAh , up to 10 to 20 amps and were in business. !!!!!!
Pure water has no free ions to carry electrons so no voltage could be generated. Salt water would work to some extent. However the acid in lemon juice accelerates the reaction which is why I chose it as my electrolyte.
@sgarrard23 youre wrong. i have done experiments. you absolutely CAN get voltage from simple water. try taking a zinc slot connector from a computer bay, attach a copper wire, then take another copper wire and have them submersed in water only. you will get a voltage. I got .9V DC ~ 1.05V DC from 2 tic-tac containers in series this way. try it for yourself. i can make a video to show you if necessary. Raising the current would be the next step which I am working on.
I don't remember exactly. Probably 20 to 30. The thing is, there are so many variables that you never know how many pennies it will take to reach your desired voltage. A voltmeter has to be used to determine the voltage of your pile and pennies can be added or subtracted accordingly.
okey. This one is actually cool but....why did you put the lemon in gatorade? and what does gatorades has that you need to put the lemon in there and why you have to do holes in it? and why you have to wait 30 minutes?........Sorry for so much questions but it is a Experiment i have to do in school if you can answer them all I would really apreciate you.
ok heres a thought its one thing to charge your ipod with the cord and a lemon buuuut... come up with an idea to charge your ipod without the cord ya c my roomate found an mp3 at his job and it has a connection for a cord i dont have what do i do besides goin out and buying the cord
You are probably correct. I'm not sure how familiar you are with electronics but you have hooked your lemons up in series. This will only increase the voltage. Hooking up another lemon in parallel will increase your amps. Let me know if that doesn't work or if you need any clarification.
suppose you have the lemon with 2 end connectors. lets say, one aluminum and one copper. When you connect in "series" you connect the aluminum from one lemon to the copper of the other one. That way de voltage from the fist lemon "adds" to the voltage of the second lemon. If you connect the aluminum from one lemon to the aluminum of the other lemon, and the same with the coppers, you have the "parallel" connection, and you are "adding" the current from the two lemons (i.e. increasing your amps)
like instead of connecting it with the 2 alligator clips on the wire couldnt u put an alligator clip on the end f the sotored wire and connect it to the black and red wires
Do you mean connect one of the soldered wires (there are two) to both the red and black wires with a single alligator clip? This would not work. You need to connect the positive soldered wire to the red wire with one alligator clip and the negative soldered wire to the black wire with another alligator clip. These wires cannot touch at any point or you will get a short and it wont charge.
I don't actually remember how many I used exactly. My best guess is that we used between 25-30 pennies. It will vary based on the conditions (thickness of cardboard/ pH of lemon juice) and your voltage goal.
No, the iPod will draw current as needed from the battery just as it would from the standard charging cable. However, it is also unlikely that the battery would last long enough to get a full charge. It is more of a science project than a lesson in practicality.
Ooohhhh!!! I think i got it! K so my penny and lemon battery procude Voltage. But barely ne Ampz! N in order for the Voltage to power the motor it needs enough ampage to move the volts to the motor? im so lost...n i 4got the formula thing for series and parallels...
Check the requirements of the mini motor (do not exceed these). Measure the volts and amps of your battery. To increase voltage, lengthen the voltaic pile. To increase amperage, create another battery and connect in parallel. Once you have it close connect it to the motor, it should run. Let me know if you have any more questions. Good Luck! For the record, this video was not faked.
Yea i made another battery n connected it...at least i think i did. I think that's the problem, i'm not really sure how to close connect. I kno how to do the formulas just not the actual thing. But thanks newayz, this was very good info. I juz turned in my project stating that it didn't work and why. Thanks again!
Ooh...i dono if thisz fake or not but i don really care lol but do u think this could power a mini motor? Im doin this 4 a science project, and on the voltmeter it produces as much Volts as a battery but it doesnt run the motor. What am I doin wrong?
so its like your stranded on an abondand island with your i pod and charger with a lemon so you decide to stick your charger in to a lemon and get 3 minutes of music.....DUH!
I was a junior in college when I did this project. The teacher asked us to make a video of something simple and fun that demonstrated something we had learned in class. I figured that we could take a common grade school project and step it up a bit. Since the infamous onion charger video had just come out it seemed like an appropriate topic.
I originally intended to use blotter paper. However, when blotter paper gets wet it bends easily. If two or more pieces of the blotter paper were to touch you would get a short and your voltage would drop to almost nothing. I chose cardboard because it is still somewhat rigid when wet. Blotter paper would work better but it would have to be cut in penny sized disks which would be a real pain to make by hand.
Marvelous! ;)
DearAteCharo 2 weeks ago
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to charge your iPod! With the Lemons! I'm going to get my engineers to design an electric Lemon that charges you iPod!
blargation 2 months ago
just wondering can u charge anyother devices like a psp 3000 with this experiment
elementskater225 8 months ago
couldnt you take the voltaic pile into a cup of lemon juice without the cardboard and to keep them together just put a dab a super glue in between each or even soldering each penny together
HUsoldier171 10 months ago
omg it works
coosse 1 year ago
for how many minutes does the charging last??
eksell2 1 year ago
THANK YOU THANK YOU THAAAAANK YOUU!!!!!! im making a solar powered ipod using the same wiring method. this is going to help me so much now, because i didnt know what to do with the ipod charger! You have saved me!
johanmou 1 year ago
be careful to not cross wires or apply charge to the wrong wires or you will short out your IPOD.
Eddiefry 1 year ago
can i also do this in my IP?
angelyzha 1 year ago
I can charge my ipod just by looking at it.
plackersen 1 year ago
I think u can use ur toung 2 charge ur iPod touch.
thecreator10ify 1 year ago
im surprised to see college physics students talking about voltage, which is completely unimportant. the sweetness is the CURRENT!!!!!!! i can give you voltage all day that wont do anything at micro amperage.. the most important thing, the MAIN GOAL, the payoff, is CURRENT.. give me however many volts i need, thats fine, but give me like 500-600 mAh , up to 10 to 20 amps and were in business. !!!!!!
LiquidChem 1 year ago
where can you get a zinc nail? and those wires used with the voltmeter?
indian838 1 year ago
Water would also work. Its the Zinc and copper that is doing all the work.
ibpointless2 1 year ago
Pure water has no free ions to carry electrons so no voltage could be generated. Salt water would work to some extent. However the acid in lemon juice accelerates the reaction which is why I chose it as my electrolyte.
sgarrard23 1 year ago
@sgarrard23 youre wrong. i have done experiments. you absolutely CAN get voltage from simple water. try taking a zinc slot connector from a computer bay, attach a copper wire, then take another copper wire and have them submersed in water only. you will get a voltage. I got .9V DC ~ 1.05V DC from 2 tic-tac containers in series this way. try it for yourself. i can make a video to show you if necessary. Raising the current would be the next step which I am working on.
LiquidChem 1 year ago
kool... i'm gonna try that
blingblaw2003 1 year ago
just wondering, how many pennies did you use to make the voltaic pile?
thanks
krishnatwelve 1 year ago
I don't remember exactly. Probably 20 to 30. The thing is, there are so many variables that you never know how many pennies it will take to reach your desired voltage. A voltmeter has to be used to determine the voltage of your pile and pennies can be added or subtracted accordingly.
sgarrard23 1 year ago
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okey. This one is actually cool but....why did you put the lemon in gatorade? and what does gatorades has that you need to put the lemon in there and why you have to do holes in it? and why you have to wait 30 minutes?........Sorry for so much questions but it is a Experiment i have to do in school if you can answer them all I would really apreciate you.
undertakerfuckinrock 1 year ago
Great job. I hope you did well in the science fari
Diessenhofen 2 years ago
ok heres a thought its one thing to charge your ipod with the cord and a lemon buuuut... come up with an idea to charge your ipod without the cord ya c my roomate found an mp3 at his job and it has a connection for a cord i dont have what do i do besides goin out and buying the cord
iamacracker420 2 years ago
Mom:Honey what r u doing
******:about to charge my Ipod with a lemon
Mom:u can use the fukin door
William94511 2 years ago
Dude. Both the chicks r hot. HOOK ME UP. haha
dantefan94 2 years ago 4
that asin girl is hot
robbierules11 2 years ago
Awesome!!! Nerds playing with citrus fruit!!!
=P
PoofyMcFluffkins 2 years ago
Of course a lemon would work! It has lemontricity!
iSmith024 2 years ago 12
Hey, what kind of wire did you use to connect the pennies on the end???
BillyCaruso3 2 years ago
girl looks bored... i should have been there and could have gave her something to do while his kid was talking his smart stuff
rgrafton 2 years ago
this seriously looks like your science project......no offense
kimi0st2rz 2 years ago
It was......none taken
sgarrard23 2 years ago
nerd fest!!!
andyteneyck113344 2 years ago
teach me about a battery any day girl. :-D
hoodboi718 2 years ago
You know, there are two girls and a guy in the video. I'll give you one guess as to which one posted it.
sgarrard23 2 years ago
the guy?
hoodboi718 2 years ago
I hooked up lemons and got 7 volts but it wont charge. Can you help me? I think I need more amps.
Phantom324324 2 years ago
You are probably correct. I'm not sure how familiar you are with electronics but you have hooked your lemons up in series. This will only increase the voltage. Hooking up another lemon in parallel will increase your amps. Let me know if that doesn't work or if you need any clarification.
sgarrard23 2 years ago
What do you mean by parallel?
Phantom324324 2 years ago
suppose you have the lemon with 2 end connectors. lets say, one aluminum and one copper. When you connect in "series" you connect the aluminum from one lemon to the copper of the other one. That way de voltage from the fist lemon "adds" to the voltage of the second lemon. If you connect the aluminum from one lemon to the aluminum of the other lemon, and the same with the coppers, you have the "parallel" connection, and you are "adding" the current from the two lemons (i.e. increasing your amps)
xuampy 2 years ago
That is correct.
sgarrard23 2 years ago
shes hot :P
rukobuth 2 years ago
can you put what they're saying ? its hard to realize that
VELFARRECLUBBA 3 years ago
like instead of connecting it with the 2 alligator clips on the wire couldnt u put an alligator clip on the end f the sotored wire and connect it to the black and red wires
iliketosk8allday 3 years ago
Do you mean connect one of the soldered wires (there are two) to both the red and black wires with a single alligator clip? This would not work. You need to connect the positive soldered wire to the red wire with one alligator clip and the negative soldered wire to the black wire with another alligator clip. These wires cannot touch at any point or you will get a short and it wont charge.
sgarrard23 3 years ago
couldnt u just put an alligator clip on the end of the sotored wire and connect it to the ipod from there????
iliketosk8allday 3 years ago
Could you explain that in a bit more detail. I'm not quite sure how you intend to connect the aligator clip to the ipod.
sgarrard23 3 years ago
about how many pennies are needed???
iliketosk8allday 3 years ago
I don't actually remember how many I used exactly. My best guess is that we used between 25-30 pennies. It will vary based on the conditions (thickness of cardboard/ pH of lemon juice) and your voltage goal.
sgarrard23 3 years ago
Sweet! Do you have to worry about over charging?
HumanEnergy47 3 years ago
No, the iPod will draw current as needed from the battery just as it would from the standard charging cable. However, it is also unlikely that the battery would last long enough to get a full charge. It is more of a science project than a lesson in practicality.
sgarrard23 3 years ago
it works i tryed
ANYTHINGTV101 3 years ago
Ooohhhh!!! I think i got it! K so my penny and lemon battery procude Voltage. But barely ne Ampz! N in order for the Voltage to power the motor it needs enough ampage to move the volts to the motor? im so lost...n i 4got the formula thing for series and parallels...
Emeliz13 3 years ago
Check the requirements of the mini motor (do not exceed these). Measure the volts and amps of your battery. To increase voltage, lengthen the voltaic pile. To increase amperage, create another battery and connect in parallel. Once you have it close connect it to the motor, it should run. Let me know if you have any more questions. Good Luck! For the record, this video was not faked.
sgarrard23 3 years ago
Yea i made another battery n connected it...at least i think i did. I think that's the problem, i'm not really sure how to close connect. I kno how to do the formulas just not the actual thing. But thanks newayz, this was very good info. I juz turned in my project stating that it didn't work and why. Thanks again!
Emeliz13 3 years ago
No problem.
sgarrard23 3 years ago
Ooh...i dono if thisz fake or not but i don really care lol but do u think this could power a mini motor? Im doin this 4 a science project, and on the voltmeter it produces as much Volts as a battery but it doesnt run the motor. What am I doin wrong?
Emeliz13 3 years ago
awesome
stuntmanssp 3 years ago
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FAKE!!!
GotyTheBest 3 years ago
It's not. idiot. It's real.
adam10603 3 years ago
Hey nice video guys. That was really interesting.
baseblman 3 years ago
nice job nerds
dougudrc 3 years ago 2
so its like your stranded on an abondand island with your i pod and charger with a lemon so you decide to stick your charger in to a lemon and get 3 minutes of music.....DUH!
stinkbug863 3 years ago
lol what Grade Science is this
JEsseheff 3 years ago
I was a junior in college when I did this project. The teacher asked us to make a video of something simple and fun that demonstrated something we had learned in class. I figured that we could take a common grade school project and step it up a bit. Since the infamous onion charger video had just come out it seemed like an appropriate topic.
sgarrard23 3 years ago
its so nice to see a bunch of young scientists/engineers. better than all the other ga'damn morons there are on youtube.
hvc801 3 years ago
you should try this with super thick blotter paper.
pkizgawd 3 years ago
I originally intended to use blotter paper. However, when blotter paper gets wet it bends easily. If two or more pieces of the blotter paper were to touch you would get a short and your voltage would drop to almost nothing. I chose cardboard because it is still somewhat rigid when wet. Blotter paper would work better but it would have to be cut in penny sized disks which would be a real pain to make by hand.
sgarrard23 3 years ago
hahhahaha
Shazee083 3 years ago
Imuh fuck erbudy on dis video, i likes it raaaaW! dat azn ch1ck can jump on dis hotrod!
RingWangerz 3 years ago
pro g33k nice xDDDD
FaBiOWub 3 years ago 2
wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf
ps3eater 3 years ago
wtf
R10aviR10 3 years ago
shawn, that was great!! awesome job to you and your group!!
~kendyl
matt233419 3 years ago