pretty good stuff...I have been experimenting with water batteries for a while now ...The negative side always get consumed ..The highest power i have achieved so far is 2.75 volts at almost 1 amp , it only lasted for 8 hrs..I have a 40 cup water battery lighting 2 leds that has been lit for 4 months..I love this stuff ...
Dirt works well to,actually better than water but consumes the metals quicker ....The more juice it pulls the quicker the metal gets consumed..
I think the answer to this is to have a great number of cells in parallel this will slow down the negative terminal being consumed greatly. i am talking about cells in the 1000's this may seem like a lot but with proper reduction of cell size this is very plausable.
Yes I agree ,with larger numbers of cells , it would allow for better output and longer life span..The biggest number of cells i have done is 82 with dirt using ice trays ..14 cells in series 6 banks in parallel..It ran 12 bright white leds for 2 weeks before dimming but i used galvanized metal for the zinc once its consumed it still works just not as good...Another way I have been doing lately is doing wraps with alum foil\copper wire and paper..They are more compact take way less space....
cont....And work almost the same as the cups of water...Just take good bit of copper wire wrap it in about 1 ft toilet paper ,wrap the outside with alum foil and just wet it ..
matrix configuration. The trick here is to use as little amps as possible and spread this over as many cells as possibe. There are high efficiency bulbs out now that put our a lot of light with very little amperage. Some as low as .15 amps. Again small amps over a large base. I will be using stainless steel and zink. Not quite as high of a reading as copper and Zink but there will be no corrosion.
That will be huge...Yes stainless works really well with zinc or alum...I have used the bright white leds that only use 30 ma max..they put out some really good light even at 15 ma draw....
I got a brother in law interested in this several months ago and he has water night lights all over his house.....
Are you planning to stick with plain water or going to try some chemicals?
I have done lemon juice , vinegar,bleach,salt,magnesium nitrate,and hydrogen peroxide...
The exercise here was to use only tap water. The lemon juice will eventually have to be replaced actually quite soon. To be able to generate energy by adding only tap water is the goal.
Tap water only. When configured in a large enough matrix this system could provide a lrge amount of voltage and current. The device showhere could eaisly be scaled down to 1/5 its size.
Salt and vinger need to be added on a regular basis and will degrade the copper and zink. Water is the only componet to be added and that only due to evaporation.
pretty good stuff...I have been experimenting with water batteries for a while now ...The negative side always get consumed ..The highest power i have achieved so far is 2.75 volts at almost 1 amp , it only lasted for 8 hrs..I have a 40 cup water battery lighting 2 leds that has been lit for 4 months..I love this stuff ...
Dirt works well to,actually better than water but consumes the metals quicker ....The more juice it pulls the quicker the metal gets consumed..
jdcmusicman 2 years ago
I think the answer to this is to have a great number of cells in parallel this will slow down the negative terminal being consumed greatly. i am talking about cells in the 1000's this may seem like a lot but with proper reduction of cell size this is very plausable.
excel60 2 years ago
Yes I agree ,with larger numbers of cells , it would allow for better output and longer life span..The biggest number of cells i have done is 82 with dirt using ice trays ..14 cells in series 6 banks in parallel..It ran 12 bright white leds for 2 weeks before dimming but i used galvanized metal for the zinc once its consumed it still works just not as good...Another way I have been doing lately is doing wraps with alum foil\copper wire and paper..They are more compact take way less space....
jdcmusicman 2 years ago
cont....And work almost the same as the cups of water...Just take good bit of copper wire wrap it in about 1 ft toilet paper ,wrap the outside with alum foil and just wet it ..
jdcmusicman 2 years ago
I will be building a 1500 sell unit in a
matrix configuration. The trick here is to use as little amps as possible and spread this over as many cells as possibe. There are high efficiency bulbs out now that put our a lot of light with very little amperage. Some as low as .15 amps. Again small amps over a large base. I will be using stainless steel and zink. Not quite as high of a reading as copper and Zink but there will be no corrosion.
excel60 2 years ago
That will be huge...Yes stainless works really well with zinc or alum...I have used the bright white leds that only use 30 ma max..they put out some really good light even at 15 ma draw....
I got a brother in law interested in this several months ago and he has water night lights all over his house.....
Are you planning to stick with plain water or going to try some chemicals?
I have done lemon juice , vinegar,bleach,salt,magnesium nitrate,and hydrogen peroxide...
jdcmusicman 2 years ago
Plain water only. I collected rain water yesterday and will try that. My end idea is to develop a device that would
be useful and practical in a third world enviroment
excel60 2 years ago
It would be interesting to replace the tap water with distilled water to see if theres any difference in the output.
Lakes57 2 years ago
I will try that
excel60 2 years ago
add a little lemon juice to the water! Then watch that LED GLOW
Justalabrat 2 years ago
The exercise here was to use only tap water. The lemon juice will eventually have to be replaced actually quite soon. To be able to generate energy by adding only tap water is the goal.
excel60 2 years ago
thanks for the video.
in the future can you please calculate the watts output along with volts, amps. thanks again.
would it be better to just build amps and then use a transformer to get your volts?
onthecuttingedge2005 2 years ago
wattage=voltage x amperage
w= 1.79v x .025a
w= .045 watts
excel60 2 years ago
thanks. very low watts. not sure if one could scale big enough to do any real work. what are you using for an eletrolizer? water and salt?
danratsnapnames 2 years ago
Tap water only. When configured in a large enough matrix this system could provide a lrge amount of voltage and current. The device showhere could eaisly be scaled down to 1/5 its size.
excel60 2 years ago
water only aye.. try venager and a teaspoon of salt in each instead.. you'll see a much HIGHER voltage from the same size unit.
danratsnapnames 2 years ago
Salt and vinger need to be added on a regular basis and will degrade the copper and zink. Water is the only componet to be added and that only due to evaporation.
excel60 2 years ago