More Voltage out than in – Water Captret

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It’s all starting to make sense now.

I’ve been playing with a type of water battery that is very different than the ordinary water battery in that it uses the same metals and not dis-similar metals that other water batteries use. With this water battery I’m able to get voltage when both plates are put in water. Both plates are Aluminum foil, ones thicker than the other and the size of them affect it too. With these water batteries they can be shorted out for long periods of time and once you take the short off they still have the same voltage.

So why is this important?

Well if we look at the Capacitor we’ll start seeing some similarities. Both a capacitor and my water battery (water captret) have plates that are the same metal and which is aluminum. Both Hold voltage and the amount of voltage are dependent on the thickness and size. So what happens when you short out a capacitor? There’s a mysterious bounce back of voltage, as if it is just like the water battery (water captret).  So now it’s all making sense, the water battery (water captret) is just a brother (if not clone) of the capacitor. Water captret effect would explain why capacitors gain voltage even though they were shorted out; it’s due to the aluminum plates in the liquid.

Now time for a little more craziness. Those of you who know about me I’ve started this thing called the captret, it’s basically takes one capacitor and gives another Lead by using the case. So the case of a capacitor is aluminum too and at a different size than the aluminum inside the capacitor, and since its aluminum I can use it to get voltage too. Since the water captret is just a capacitor I can easily make it a captret too just by adding another piece of aluminum of different size. So I can have the water captret have one positive plate and two, three, four, or however many negative plates as I want with each producing their own voltage.

This is just must me putting forth why I think capacitors have a spontaneous self-charge on them even when left shorted out. I’ve come to this conclusion due to my studies of the Water captret “water battery” use of similar metals.  Hope this helps others in their confusion with capacitors; it seems they’re much simpler and much more complicated than once thought. Now all we got to do is figure out why two similar metals give a voltage.

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Thought I would come back to this idea of a water battery that used similar meal plates instead of the usual different metal plates. The problem that faced the normal different metal water battery was the galvanic reaction that ate away at one of the metals, with my water battery I was trying to keep this from happening.

I always wondered about using distilled water instead of tap water, and so I gave it a shot. Distilled water does not work well, if not at all. It seems the minerals thats inside of the tap water is key to making it all work. The mineral that is most noticeable is calcium, due to it leaving a white power substance on the plates.

Even when my new type of water battery is left to sit and all the water evaporates from it you can add more water and the cell will come back to life. Even shorting it out has no negative effects on the cells. So far the only bad thing is the fact that the water will evaporate, but placing plastic wrap over the cup keeps the water in.

So far what I know is that there is no galvanic reaction that occurs in my batteries because they use the same metals. Shorting them out extends their life. The minerals in the tap water are very important to its operation much like a crystal battery. Its as if i’m tapping nature itself, also the cells work better when heated or the ambient room temp is high.