Ibpointless2 Crystal Cells

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I think using tape to connect these cells is not the way to go.I think a conductive glue would have been better.The electrodes are close enough to connect with a glob of glue.triffid

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Last night I made my driest cell yet. I took a drinking straw and crimped one end and poured some salt substitute into it and inserted copper and magnesium electrodes in. No water was added. At first I was getting barely 30mV but when I squeezed the cell with my hand i saw a jump up to 300mV. So I figured pressure was key here so I grabbed my c-clamp and started to crush the cell and had it reach 900mV! I noticed the meter was acting like a load and was draining the cell so at 314mV i disconnected the cell from the meter and let it rest. When I reconnected the cell it has climbed back up to 600mV. So I then I let it rest some more and I was getting 950mV. Thinking this was a fluke i let it rest over night and i woke to find it was at 850mv, So it did go down a little but not much. So from what I learn from this I got some small copper tubing and crimped one end and pour some salt substitute into it and inserted the magnesium strip into it. I started crushing the copper tubing so that it can hold the pressure for me instead of using a c-clamp. Now the cell is reading 1.351v. The bad news is that I'm getting no amps. I do think this is some type of piezoelectric effect but usually piezoelectric never keeps giving you a constant voltage over time. piezoelectric usually gives a spike of voltage and that's it and not this constant voltage i'm getting.[/size]

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I was thinking for a while that these crystals could be some fancy form of thermocouple.Thermocouples only give off millivolts.And we are talking about millivolts,not volts.On my cells connected together.I put five together.I could only get about 1.8 volts.My panel may need three or more weeks of work on it.There certainly is a lot to be learned from these cells.I thought too that maybe elmers glue-all mixed with the salt sub[size=78%]could be conductive?A panel is only as good as its weakest cell allows it.I liked your work with the soda straw casing.Crushing the copper tubing was a good idea too.triffid[/size]

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Mostly this topic is not related to the thread but he does show how he builds salt water capacitors.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opu7AHlLaRI&feature=relmfu  Some thing I know we might all want to do sooner or later.triffid

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I m waiting another day for my panel to dry.I took a crystal battery down today to McDonalds  to show a friend of mine that its working.Theres a group of senior citizens that meet for breakfast there and coffee.triffid