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My six new dandelion cells were dry enough to let me read voltages.They ranged from 1.38 volts to 1.42 volts.I see some bubbles where the magnesium strip is located but not a lot of them.Also it appears that in three cells that there is a clear spot showing the dandelion leaf.It appears green anyway.The leaf is on top of the first layer of glue.Epsom salts on top of that dandelion leaf.Then a layer of elmers glue all.Now I need to wait two weeks to see if these magnesium strips snap with light handling.triffid

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My dad fixed radios and tvs most of his life.I saw him many a time with voltmeters at the kitchen table.He set up a workshop in the basement here of his house.He passed away about three and a half years ago.I got to learn a lot about electronics by watching him do stuff.By the time I was eight,he and my mom were separated then divorced.He never worked on computers however.Wouldn't touch them.I learned from someone else how to open up computers and replace circuit boards.triffid

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His best year after retirement he fixed over 300 tv sets he said.He used to go to auctions here in the neighborhood(in st.louis) buy up the old tvs that did not work for a couple of dollars.Fix them during the week take them back to sell at auction and sell them as working sets.One time I came here to visit back in the 1980's and he let me watch him fix six tv sets one after the other.That time I learned how to repair blown out capacitors with a larger capacitor.Without removing the blown out part(capacitor).He explained to me that he limited the amount of time he would work on a set.The new capacitor he just taped to something in the tv set.Did not bother to unsolder the blown out capacitor.Just one of the tricks he learned over the years.triffid

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About 20 years before he died he closed up most of his workshop saying the new electronics had stopped his little tv racket.saying that people no longer cared about fixing their tv sets.That it was cheaper to buy a new one than to fix the old one.The japanese had killed it for him he said.triffid

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I hooked up all six cells in series (of my latest dandelion cells).Got 7.1 volts and .94 mAs.That makes it 6.67 milliwatts.I get an average of 1.18 volts per cell.Ampswise these cells are just as powerful as the other dandelion cells.So I have a red LED burning bright tonight.triffid




I got about half the bubbles I got with the unprotected magnesium strips.Maybe the borax protected them a little?
Give it another two weeks and I will know.