Working Air Battery

[chinmoy1955]

Hi Everybody,

I have been testing my air battery designs since May 10, 2010.  I have now started getting ready to take the next step.  I have some large 3 inch carbon rods on order and I plan on making some serious long term power with these.  I will post my progress in this thread.  I will also be making a video showing how to make these in the near future.

Check out my video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8wk8a_-D1A

Check out my other videos for more information on my previous designs.

Dear lasersaber, read your article, saw your video. Sorry to say I could not make out exactly what your experiment is? Sorry, I am a novice. Just what is exactly an Air Battery? What is the principle behind it? I could see some copper coils, soft iron cores, something rotating in the foreground (supposed to be a motor running for 3 days) and a long tube supposed to be the air battery. I will be grateful if you explain the whole stuff and its theory more clearly so that I can also make the thing and post my own results. Or maybe some explicit links to other sites? Thanks

[lasersaber]

chinmoy1955

I am making a video showing exactly how to build these.  Unfortunately after shooting almost all the video clips they got accidently deleted.  The air batteries I built for the video work very well. I really do not want to take them apart just to remake them for a video.  I decided to order some more graphite rods and video the making process on my next build.  I will try to answer all the questions people have been asking in that future video.

Here is where I bought my graphite rods: http://www.graphitestore.com/itemDetails.asp?search_string=GT001420&search_mode=1&item_id=491&curPage=1

These rods hold one roll of magnesium ribbon perfectly.  It is very important that when you warp on the ribbon you leave a small space between each warp.  I am using paper towel between the graphite rod and the ribbon.  I will post a video soon.

[lasersaber]

1.5 - 1.7 volts
2 - 2.5 amps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG8qyN7y-PE

[Localjoe]

@lasersaber

              Sweet im thinking about building a couple of these for garage  lights for a buddy, what kinda erosion/decayy would we see on one of these after say a year or so?  Not moistened mind you just in a lake town .   And would this magnesium roll be enough to cover the 3 inch rod you showed in the link above

http://www.ecrater.com/p/1984355/1-roll-75-ft-of-magnesium-ribbon-25-grams-998
                                                                       Joe

[lasersaber]

I get all my magnesium ribbon from this guy: http://www.mcssl.com/store/gallium-source/magnesium-metal

I may go for his deal on 100 hundred rolls: http://www.mcssl.com/store/gallium-source/048---magnesium-ribbon-100-rolls-free-shipping

$3.25 a roll seems like a pretty good deal to me.

Until I have tested these batteries for over a year I cannot really tell you how long they will last.  It's too soon to know for sure.