Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[Pirate88179]

@ Feynman:

Great work!  I am sure you just saved a bunch of people a lot of time with experiments here.  Excellent job.

Bill

[AbbaRue]

Awsome stuff:

We should all have a working Crystal battery soon.  This is one of the most exiting times I have seen on this forum.
I was listening when John mentioned the ingredients too.
@Feynman:
I am really glad you got through on the phone, you asked just the right questions.
I got home late so I only caught the last 30 min. of the show but that was all I needed to get the ingredients.

I always suspected that Rochelle salt was one of them. Now I heard fine powdered germanium not germanium salt.
Anyway now to find a source for the ingredients, anyone know of a Canadian source,
don't know how the border will react to importing chemical compounds.

[ian middleton]

G'day all,

@Feynman:  Well done, thank you for your efforts. I think all in this group will appreciate the information you have come up with. There was one ingredient that John mentioned that I haven't used yet although I have tons of the stuff in the cupboard. Epsom salts. I don't think it will be as good as rochelle salt but that one bit of info has now made things a lot clearer. Thanks.
The high KV may cause a problem, the highest I can go is about 6 KV so I'd better start hunting around.
Ok then, it's back to the lab, I can see this is going to be one long night. 

Ps  did you manage to record the show?

Catch you later.

Ian.

[AbbaRue]

For a HV DC source an old computer monitor will work great, just feed the output into a Lyden jar cap. to get clean DC.
Just visit JLN Labs and look up lifter power supplies.
I tried making Rochelle Salt from cream of tarter once, the problem is the stuff they sell as cream of tarter isn't the real stuff anymore.
So you may have a problem getting true cream of tarter.   It would be much better to get some pure Rochelle Salt.
Some drugstores may sell it I don't know. But if someone finds a good source we can all profit from it.

[sutra]

Hi guys...

Great news....wow!

Shall we just starting pounding some diodes? (hunting for Germanium and Silicium) LOL
Ciao