Water Battery (3 In Series) 001

[RetroCopS]

you should connect enough of these until you can shock yourself! :D

[elijahlucian]

now here's an insteresting question,... is this possible with ocean water? cant we just turn the ocean into a huge battery? (insulated of course so we dont kill the marine life haha)

[969SobiasTokeS696]

@elijahlucian yes

[elijahlucian]

@969SobiasTokeS696 lol... how informative.

[HybridWaterMan2]

SO simple- easy to replicate. Very nice! What about doing a copper penny/ zinc foil stack in a plastic tube like the old dry stacks?

[bubblygurl]

LOL try using potassium!

[ShinobiKuroiOkami]

how much ampere, fag!?

[asdflax]

@ShinobiKuroiOkami wow you are a really angry person, do it yourself and find out...

[coilsinamotor]

is that just paper towel?

[121CH41217]

hey how come when i get 5.8 dc volts and 10.3 ac volts i cant power my 1.5v mp3 player or any thing that runs on a aa or aaa battery?

[1082705]

HI, HOW DO THAT WORKS?

[asdflax]

Is that wire enamelled?

Great video!

[swehunter2000]

can i like make some of them and dont put them in water and save them reaaaallly long?

[gadgetmanubuntu]

I was messing around with these batteries, I checked one with my meter, 0.8v then i connected my 16v power supply and charged them, then I checked them, 1.3v.

I connected 5 uncharged batteries to an led, it glows, with three charged brightly lit.

[gadgetmanubuntu]

very clever! I tried it and it works!

[jucest]

I was wondering what is Kitchen raw at 0:47secs. in the video It looks like a paper towel that we use in the kitchen in the USA. Or Is it made of thin plastic for cutting vegies

[gadgetmanubuntu]

@jucest paper towel.

[NFG49]

how many batteries does it take to make a spark?

not sure if this is a double post, sorry if it is

[NFG49]

how many batteries do you need to create a spark?

[iosonologio]

try with some acid or salt in the water too... this should work much better.

[ema576]

its probly salt water or vinager, well water contains salt, and forms of water contain contaminants.

[fletcho11]

Ok, so you made a battery ,very low voltage low amperage ,what is the point ,it will not run my cell phone ,I can go to walmart and buy a battery ,how is this better ... this is 1800 tec , unless you are working on a second grade science project it is just trivia . If you want to put 15 or more of them to replace 1 of your battery's in your TV remote have fun . lol by the way, more energy used and CO2 produced to make the cope and zinc nails than you get in return , again what is the point?

[deepcut71]

The point is that to those of us who aren't familiar with the principles it is very interesting. It's called education you twit.

[PiTaBoI94]

to help me for my project in AP Chem! if you don't see a point then don't watch it dipshit

[intheshitter]

@fletcho11 Its fun?

[FreeGlobalEnergy]

You really don't see the point in this?

Think of all the material it takes to make up a 12v car battery but keep in mind that you need existing current to charge that battery, this water battery creates it's own electricity. This guy is only using 3 of these tiny devices & just like in a car battery that requires 6 cells with a lot of material if this guy would build 55 of these tiny units at 2.2V that adds up to 121V. This can be very useful in a 3 month power outage to run radio & cell Ph

[gadgetmanubuntu]

@FreeGlobalEnergy if you charge them with 12v you get more power.

[wolffallen]

i ran an led for about 3 days solid off these batterys but i found that brass and magnesium is better, i got 0.68 volts from a zink nail and copper the same as in this video, but using brass and magnesium i got 1.5volts from a single cell, ive been running a clock off this for about half a month so far and its still running nice "digital"

[kubikop]

Nice one, glad it worked for you and you also made a Magnesium battery. What did you scavenge the Magnesium out of?

[wolffallen]

oops think i replyed to the wrong person, oh well on another note sorry i took so long to reply, my net has been capped, takes near a week to load a page

[reddmanunited]

@kubikop whats the amps you get out of one of these cells?

@wolffallen same question, how many amps?

[jucest]

@wolffallen 1.5 v that is great what did you use for the stuff inbetween and what was the size of the brass rod and magnesium the actual area covered.

[wolffallen]

@jucest i made lots of different versions,

i used water crystals to separate 1, tissue paper for another, cotten thread, anything that will hold water really

for magnesium i usually use a strip about about 1mil thick, by about half a inch, to an inch long or more, again ive made lots of different version

for copper, i usually used copper wire, and just wrapped it around the "stuff inbetween" like winding a coil

since then i have just been using a copper strip abit bigger then the magnesium

[cjmsbj]

@wolffallen What was your source of magnesium?

[wolffallen]

@cjmsbj magnesium i bought on ebay, about $30 for a 75 foot roll

[anuthehigh]

@wolffallen I would like to know, how long the battery lasted it will help me on my homemade battery project for my home to take my house off the grid.

[wolffallen]

@anuthehigh my batterys all had different lifetimes

i had 1 '2 cell' running a digital clock for about 6 months this was probably the longest, it just had the 4 terminals in a shotclass that has 2 sides, you know the once, you get 2 different color alcohols one in each side.

some of my others running LED lights have lasted up to a month

using just plain water, if you add vinegar to the mix they run alot brighter, but it eats the magnesium away faster, with in minutes if you only use vinegar,

[anuthehigh]

@wolffallen I'm going to build and test a fish tank size battery with 11 cells inside using zinc and copper and citric acid using some tap water and a pipe filled with sea salt will sit at the bottom and be closed off so the salt will build up on the outside of the pipe causing it to pass zinc ions to the copper to produce voltage, are i can bypass it all and mix the sea salt in each cell.

[wolffallen]

@anuthehigh if you look up lidmotor on here, he has circuits and links to other people making a jouletheif

if you make this up, its a very simple circuit its just a transistor and coil, and resistor, it can help suck more power out of the waterbattery, i was able to light a LED off a single cell waterbattery, but i did not do much testing with that, because i started getting into wirelessly powering stuff, end goal is to wirelessly light up a fluro tube using a mini tesla coil with waterBatterys

[anuthehigh]

@wolffallen nice

[nivekevinutz]

@wolffallen does brass and magnesium have a longer life than zinc and copper?

[alicipherd]

Tell me how long this battery will last?

[kubikop]

They last until all the copper or all the zinc has been corroded away... quite a time....

[wolffallen]

i have an old block of magnesuim with a piece of flint on the side, its a camping or survival thing, but i have also bought a roll of magnesium ribbon from ebay, its perfect for the job its only 1 or 2 mil thick and about 5 mil wide also about 75ft long, i have been running an led for about 3 weeks now too, its still fairly bright, but its dimming down abit now

[30GB]

try soaking them in lime and recharge them

[kubikop]

I tried lemon.... works very well...

[Demoman42]

Oh.. that's will be my new project after "Pulse Motor"

[kubikop]

Nice one... they are easy to build.....

[RupertsCrystals]

How long do they last before they corrode?

[kubikop]

Sorry I have not tested that!, My thoughts are have a go....

Wire gets thrown every day and nails for plasterboard get thrown all the time.

There is nothing like the feeling of making some think out of trash that you can use...

Let me know how you get on.

A similar setup used to be utilized by the telephone companies in a North to South Configuration to boost signals.

In short they last a long Time...

Paul.

[RupertsCrystals]

No problem. Got the nails, got the wire. Just about to start the test.

I'll probably post a video with results later.

Also got a couple of other ideas. I'll post them too.

[kubikop]

Look forward to it.

Paul.

[UserIsAnFBIAgent]

Thanx to your video, I now have the know-how, if you will, to produce batteries that look like the ones you showed how to do.

Ace™ Says Thank You.

[kubikop]

No problems....

[agungk]

won't calling this water battery a misnomer?

since the actual energy is derived from the zinc and copper electrodes? technically this is a zinc-copper battery.

[kubikop]

Is misnomer a common word in Indonesia?

They do not work without the water. Make one....

[agungk]

actually, i don't think it's the water that make it work...try it with pure distilled water...

[kubikop]

ok, why do not you try it and post a video?

Im working on different thinks now...

[ExoSanty]

It works, what i find odd is that even if the paper dried out it still reads current...

[kubikop]

Try Lemon Juice on it it can Light LEDs!

[ExoSanty]

i'm currently lighting a led with 8 cups of water, it reads about 6.5 volts. the led could shine more, not enough amps. but works 2

[kubikop]

Well Done.

Try using your LED with a Joule Thief, Check My channel....

Paul.

[watchurmouthyoungman]

this works like a charm and i get around .86 volts for each battery but how come the current starts at like 2.1 but drops really quickly to like .5 within 20 seconds??

[kubikop]

What are you powering with it?

Can you post your results, upload a video of it.

Paul

[mcorrade]

This is GREAT! So your saying that bigger is not better is not better? How about longer but the same dia?

thanks...Always love your vids

[kubikop]

Cheers, I think That the bigger the more current you can squeeze out of them but the voltage is always about 0.8-0.9 ish.

If the zinc and the copper are closer together you get more current.

SO, surface area x distance = larger current

Thanks for watching..

[rcfp2006]

try using salt water, red wine or even vinegar, high acidity allows the electrons to move about more freely.

[kubikop]

I might try that next, but it wont be a water battery! ;-)

I think it will be worth investigating...

Paul

[Fordslum]

What did you use in insulating the copper wire and galva.. nails?? can a piece of cloth will do??

[SpeedDennis]

Awesome, imagine linking 100 or 1000 of these things together... Just one question, how long do they keep there power and are the rechargeable ?

[krishields]

All batteries are technically rechargable, but the "wet cell" AA batteries you get in a store produce a gas via electrolosys, which may cause them to explode as the warning says. There is a limit though and this type of setup is pretty limited. It works and is fun to do.

[lebensborn666]

Do you think making it longer would increase voltage?

Also u know you copper u wound into a coil, do u think making this have a larger radius would increase amplitude?

[kubikop]

The closer the zinc and copper the larger the amps it seems. If you make larger ones the voltage seems to stay the same but the amps goes up.

Thanks for watching...

[lebensborn666]

5/5 awsome dude, this seems less space consuming than the earth batteries, excellent stuff :D

[kubikop]

Cheers, they can run an alarm clock too....

[lebensborn666]

Awsome!

[Careica]

Basicly all in YouTube whit this Water Batteries are getting 0,9 V. It is some caind of "sweet spot" for them I see...

But also what is intersting, you can put them in series, and Voltage do increase, maybe amps too?

But basicly, if we want to run motor, best choise could be Newman Motor, best ones use under 5mA, and I think these Water Batteries make more current than that. So you could need 12V / 0.9V = 13,333 WBatteries, not bad at all. And maybe 20 of them will run motor clearly.

[FormalScience]

Excellent!.

500000stars*

[Kntryhart]

As always, nice work. It would be interesting to see if a bank of these would power your Bedini circuit!

[Kawasakikx]

can you power an small engine or incandescent lamp

[kubikop]

I am thinking a calculator or radio will work off it I will get one of each and try it.....

[Kawasakikx]

try with citric acid,

great video

[mochiam]

Is the copper wire enameled? Compliments for the video

[kubikop]

Thanks, and no its just normal copper wire.

[marthale7]

I have done this, and I have noticed it seems no mater how large the copper and the zinc, the output is the same. I have tried with a 1ft copper pipe and 4x4 zinc plate and I still get .79 - .9 V out of the single battery. I am wondering how small one could go...? or if size affect milliamps...

[kubikop]

I noticed this too and found that the surface area is directly related to the Amps at 0.8 volts. Have you tried to power anything off your 4x4 zinc plate one?

[jesslessthemess]

I like your design, very simple, neat and compact :D

[kubikop]

Thanks, I am going to try soldering them next time to make them smaller.