ok, I was just interested in the amperage produced. You are doing some good work!

As i been playing with the water captret "water battery" trying different prototypes i found that my cats prefer to drink the water captret water. I'm not worried as it is only tap water but it is quite strange they would come all the way here, far from the water and food dish, to drink my water captret water. They seem to really like it, don't know if the water taste different or if its the shinny aluminum foil attracting them.

The cats seem as normal and healthy as they ever been. I just can't figure out why they would go all the way across the house to drink out of a small cup of water, their heads barely fit in and if the water is at the bottom they will try to get to it? Makes me want to drink the water to see whats so great about it.

Its about 7pm and I have just finished replicating ibpointless2 alum. foil battery. It certainly works and I have been able to charge up a 4900 mf 25 volt cap to 177 mv.
The big problem with water batteries is that the cat. and anodes will breakdown. Using auminum
this would not happen. I am going to run some long term test to see if anything unexpected happens. Also I will set some cells up in series and parallel to monitor voltage and amperage.
Congradulations to ib!!

Quote from: billmehess on December 28, 2010, 10:08:21 PM
Its about 7pm and I have just finished replicating ibpointless2 alum. foil battery. It certainly works and I have been able to charge up a 4900 mf 25 volt cap to 177 mv.
The big problem with water batteries is that the cat. and anodes will breakdown. Using auminum
this would not happen. I am going to run some long term test to see if anything unexpected happens. Also I will set some cells up in series and parallel to monitor voltage and amperage.
Congradulations to ib!!

Thanks, thats about what i'm getting too. I've seen up to .600 volts sometimes.

i'm doing long term test too, i've got one that is completely shorted out and so far the plates seem to be fine and look like new. I actually believe that shorting them out is much better for them as they will find there sweet spot. After you had them shorted out they will not go dead like normal batteries, they seem to go back up in voltage like a electret.

You can also put them in series with a AA battery and it will increase the AA battery voltage and charge a capacitor too.

I'm also testing to see if my cats will prefer to go to water in the water captret or just regular tap water in a cup. So far my cat has gone directly to the water captret one even though the regular tap water was closer she still wanted the water captret water.

Hello ib,

Thanks for sharing your research. I just wanted to make a comment about the water in your experiments. If the only metal you are using is aluminum then it is probably not too far of a stretch to say that small amounts of aluminum may be oxidizing off its surface, or actually dissolving in the water. Aluminum is very slightly soluble in water.

That being said, it is also a noted tidbit that Alzheimer victims have been found to have an elevated level of aluminum deposits in their brain tissues. Where this aluminum comes from I don't think has ever been definitively determined. My suspicion is it is from the aluminum chlorohydrate that is so common in underarm antiperspirants, but again, there is no definitive proof on that either.

I just mention this so that you may consider keeping your cats and yourself from drinking the water from your experiments. I am probably totally off base here, but I thought I would throw this out as something to consider. Thanks again for your efforts.