Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[AbbaRue]

@Sutra
When you disolved the cream of tartar in the water what did the liquid look like?
Did it stay milk white and thick?
I'm wondering if I got real cream of tarter.  I read that a lot of places don't sell the real stuff anymore.
Where did you buy yours, and about how much did it cost?

[ian middleton]

G'day all,

After making some rochelle salt crystals, from them I made a new cell.

Ingredients:
1 teaspoon  crushed iron pyrites
1 teaspoon  gallium coated quartz sand
1.5 teaspoon  crushed rochelle salt

outter cylinder of Aluminium and center electrode of copper.

All ingedients combined and heated in the cylinder until the salt melted.
Cell polarized with 2kV and allowed to cool for 2 hours.

Initial voltage was 0.6V but this quickly fell.
Using an AVO 8 meter set on the 0.3 mA range and a DVM, the cell held at 0.27V @0.21 mA.

I removed the AVO to take the picture and as you can see the voltage started to recover..
I also put a AA battery as a size reference.

I expect the cell voltage to peak and then fall to some stable value, I will let you know what it finishes up at.

Anyway at this stage I cannot draw any conclusions from this cell, only time and testing will tell.

Should a previous post about this cell show up , I apologise, my first one came back with an error.

Ok thats it for now, lets start getting some results in guys.

All the best

Ian

[sutra]

@Sutra
When you disolved the cream of tartar in the water what did the liquid look like?
Did it stay milk white and thick?
I'm wondering if I got real cream of tarter.  I read that a lot of places don't sell the real stuff anymore.
Where did you buy yours, and about how much did it cost?

The solution with cream of tartar looked white, if you still have some white sludge, it is possible that you still have some free tartaric acid. Heat up the solution and add some more Sodium carbonate (you'll see the bubbling again) until the liquid becomes light-honey colour, clear and the sludge is gone...If that  doesn't help, either you have an excess of sodium carbonate or you cream of tartar is not tartaric acid. filter the liquit still VERY hot otherwise crystals will form in the filter and it will end up clogged.

I bought my tartaric at ridiculously high price in the pharmacy: 3 ? /100 g

Hope to be helpful.

Cheers

[sutra]

@ Ian,

Good job.
Last night I've tryed something similar:

Mixed a 4mm crystal of Rochelle with a tea spoon tip of aluminum dust, melt with clean flame and shocked with 600 V DC. the "thing" was then pushing 0.24 V while still plastic. I left it cool overnight without any current going through...today the "splat" pushes only 12 mV but the polarization is stable...ah, the surface where I did it, is granite.....

Sorry, what's is your salt PH?

Ciao

P.S. where do you get these nice little pipes of yours?

[sutra]

@ AllÃ, 

Wow!

2 metallic bottle cans, mix as follows:

2gr Rochelle Salt
1 gr sand
0,5 gr Al dust
0,2 gr hematite dust
0,2 gr Graphite

heated to melt and shocked several times with 600 V...still cooling.... output 1,2 - 1,35 VÃ,  Ã,  0,250 mA

Let's see tomorrow morning....

enjoy my pic.....

Ciao