Crystal Cell Research for Experimenter

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Fresh:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGT48R1_P8Y&feature=youtu.be - Fausto.

So... it looks like he likes Mn2O3... it's dangerous for us home experimenters... I like the MnO2 we are using... it's not dangerous and
from what I have read has been used to color skin - pigment...

Marcus seemed a little nervous there, but it is so wonderful to see him out and about and I love that he is moving forward and getting
at least some attention! I am a big fan of his!

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More nostalgia.. these OLD crystal cell's aren't strong, but they show how they can sit around for a long time unused and still come back to life.
http://youtu.be/2ijbcdjLWg0

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This old crystal battery came back to life with a surprising 1.9+ volts!
http://youtu.be/pAxtsJjAqQ4

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Just clearing out my inventory of old crystal battery experiments... trashing some... putting a few back on the shelf...
This is an interesting 21 cell IBPointless2 build I used to test variations in the builds while trying to make them all the same...

Lessons learned...
#1 - I can't build these things exactly the same... it would take multi-million dollar operation to get something in place like that...
#2 - I CAN work with what I build. A JT circuit and one crystal battery cell works fine for the variations.
#3 - These IBPointless2 cells NEED to be watered to work... I don't care what IBP says! lol
- I think the video speaks volumes on this last lesson learned...

http://youtu.be/LCJtTmcm64k

The light died after about 10 minutes and was completely dead after 15 minutes... no power with these little bits of electrodes...

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I've been playing with this for several days now, but it looks like the resistance in these little inductors is the key to keeping things simple.
I like the 1 mH the best, so I have a bunch coming soon! 10 mH don't work with regular AA and AAA batteries... too much power...
Less than 1 mH starts having issues with the brightness of the single LED's I use in the circuit. Let me know if you learn anything on this,
but for the moment, I am done with this and waiting for my inductors....

http://youtu.be/tH4uaErdBHk