Crystal Cell Research for Experimenter

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Part 3 - Day 3 - The True Power Of ALUM!!!! "It eats magnesium like butter" as Fausto says!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjVi-0Wq9gY

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3" copper pipe, sealed end with silicone latex, let sit for 5 hours, mixed 12 parts activated carbon, 6 parts Epsom salt, 2 parts hydrate #5, 2 parts MnO2, 1 parts borax, heated with purified water* to about 200 F until it was a thick mush, coated 48" of magnesium strips folded to about 3.25", taped on one end with masking tape, then wrapped in coffee filter, then wrapped copper on the other end and taped with masking tape (like my other builds) - this is the cathode. I placed the cathode in place and tried to spoon the electrolyte in, but it wasn't working, so I took the cathode out and spooned the electrolyte in first, then pushed the cathode in place... Well.. the sealed end got pushed out, so I resealed it with fresh caulk and then sealed the other end with caulk.  On short, the mA reading was initially over 90 mA, but after about 15 minutes, it is about 34 mA. I'll hook it up to a JT and put it on the shelf to see how long it lasts.

Note: The new addition is hydrate #5 and Borax, which I am hoping will make the cell last longer. Also, there is no air in the pipe - it is a mush, and very wet in there. It will take longer to crystallize without air. I'll report my findings....

*distilled water uses a distillation process, which DOES NOT get rid of chemical contaminants like fluoride. I have a 6 stage filtration process, which is sediment filter, activated carbon filter and 4 bone char filters to get rid of chemical contaminants from public water here in the US. They like to poison us with fluoride here in the US, so I do what I can.... I imagine that beer, wine and the distilled water you buy from the store has fluoride in it here in the US....

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Currently reading 888 mV under load. Want to set up a pool for predictions on when it gets down to 600 mV? My nickle bet is in less than a week from now...

Currently reading 837 mV under load.

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So here's a fun video showing the above stated experiments...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk70nl1QFc4
NOTE: I said mV instead of mA a couple times... quick and dirty video...
Also, it had gone down to 0.17 mA, not 1.7 mA under load... I added some more alum on the top and it worked it's way back up to about 0.3 mA, but after a couple hours, it is back down to 0.23 mA. If a crystal cell of this size can't maintain at least 1-2 mA under load with my JT circuits, it's dead or at least useless...

On this video you just confirmed one of my findings concerning this formula. It does not work adding water or any other element solution after dead (WITH ONE EXCEPTION). I dumped my #149 cell from Mar-2013 into the "cemetery" because of that same reason, but there is a surprise coming.


Fausto.

[plengo]

Part 3 - Day 3 - The True Power Of ALUM!!!! "It eats magnesium like butter" as Fausto says!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjVi-0Wq9gY

As you said on the video, "they will deteriorate under load". That's way I proposed to do the same experiment with both electrodes inside to simulate that "load".



Fausto.