Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[Koen1]

Ah nice one Sutra.

Good to see you're still with us

Now let's hope you can get your cell to pump out some amps too eh?

@Ian: that patent you mentioned, I've only scanned through it quickly
but I don't see much more than a description of the ferrox-sulphur compound
with lead mixed in to make a radiation shield... I get the impression the
base compound is only used as a fairly simple yet usefull "ceramic"-like material...
Did I overlook something there?

Oh, I opened up a big D battery or at least tried to, then discovered it was still charged,
got all kinds of sparks and electrolyte spilling all over the place, the battery casing became
extremely hot, had to let go of it and quickly dumped it in a plastic container...
Should be ok to continue to dismantle in a day or so.

Kind regards!

[sutra]

@all

WOW GUYS.......


after 10 hours free in the bag, the cell now pumps a wooping 77mV slightly rising up of 10mV if the cell get kept in the hands (warmth sensitive even without pyroelectric materials involved)....

AMPS?

don't even ask....

I'm wondering if size DOES MATTER in this case...

Back to the bench grinding some pyrite to add to the mix, and this time, I'll make sure to build a BIG one....

Ciao

[sutra]

Hello All,

Here is my latest cell.

I Used an AA and a C Battery cells emptied of their snorty filling and replaced with a mix made of pure Quartz dust, Pyrite dust, Galena dust, a small percentage of synthetic ruby dust and around 50% of the whole mix of Rochelle salt: 50% in weight looks to me to be the smallest quantity to obtain a satifying liquid consistancy to the mix while stirring.

As It appears from the various J.H. videos my mix looks considerably darker than his, perhaps I should reduce the quantity of heavy components since I've noted that incresing the quantity of quartz dust, the voltage output of the cell increases.

I let the cell curing for about 2 hours submitted to a 8 VDC electric field (a Nokia battery recharger  )....

As you can see in the pic, the cell output was then a massive 2,2 V, left alone sealed in a plastic bag overnight, it now pumps a steady 0,576 V (+/- 1).

As concerning Amps, I discovered that the meter is broken, that's why I couldn't have any current reading from either latest cells...I'll let you know as soon as I get another one...

I'll keep the cell shorted overnight to see results.

Any suggestions are wellcome.

Enjoy the pics.

Ciao

[Koen1]

@Sutra: Thanks for posting your pics Sutra!

I like your 50cent-cell, it's a nice size and looks quite cool.

As for the colour, that depends quite a bit on the amount of
metal. Indeed, the stuff JH shows in his videos tends to look
much more white-ish than the grey material on your pics.
I myself have also not produced any JH cells with that nice
white colour... Although perhaps I should mention that
I have not seen any clear pictures of what JH's cell material
looks like after solidifying and drying and all... So it could be
that his final material looks just as grey as yours does.
The JH cell(s) I made so far all had this greyish hue, but
I have made test batches of material that did turn out quite white(ish).
I shall attach a pic to this post that shows a small ceramic dish
in which I baked a mix of R.salt, quartz sand, a tiny bt of titanium
dioxide powder, a bit of luminescent powder, and a pinch of
aluminium powder. And waterglass. It was well mixed to a liquid goo
and consisted for the most part of R.salt (70%) and quartz sand (20-25%).
I heated it at 120-130 degrees C for about 30 to 45 minutes, and after that
I was lucky to be able to get the stirring rod out before it hardened completely.
Totally useless chunk of hard material now, no way to get it out without
destroying the ceramic dish... But at least I now know exactly what that mix
composition does. Ok, it reacts very similar to most such mixes, but
I just wanted to show you it is well possible to make a whiteish material
with the R.salt base. (the square metal cell on the left side of that pic
is a totally different mix of mostly metals, oxides, and some binder)

@Ian: lookit, we've got another cell builder!

Oh, and here's a picture of the Quirk tube for your entertainment.
I took some more but the closeups of the gooey "sweat" did
not come out right so this one will have to do for now.
I put it next to a fesh clean tube so you can see what the Quirk did
to the aluminium. The dark discoloration and the "sweat" on
the outside of the tube are clearly visible, although unfortunately
it is not so clearly visibe that most of it actually did not drip down
from the rim, but actually came through the cylinder wall...
The copper cylinder I rolled of a piece of copper foil can be seen sticking
out the top of the alu tube, and the nice blue line indicates where
the top of the tube used to be before the Quirk started working it up.
I have as of yet not tested the cell for output as a) the stuff is still not
dry ergo yucky goo on the equipment b) idem dito ergo high chance
of galvanics c) aluminium + gallium + moisture = continuous aluminium
oxidation mediated/catalysed by the gallium => alu oxidation does not
stop untill all the aluminium has been converted into alumina => galvanics.
I did tell you about that, did I not? Al-Ga alloy, beside it forming funky
jelly-like material, has this tendency... Basically pure Al just oxidises immediately
on a monoatomic film on its outer surface, and then it stops. Pure Ga does
not oxidise rapidly in air at all, but it is more mobile at lower temperatures,
and it does have an affinity with Al, plus its atoms can creep into the pores of
the Al; what seems to happen is that the alumina is more of an obstacle and
has much less affinity with Ga in its interatomic movement, so the Ga creeps
over it and happens to drag a fresh Al atom along which when exposed to air
oxidises immediately. This way the Aluminiums natural "defence" against corrosion,
its "trick" to only oxidise its outermost monoatomic layer, is circumvented and
100% of the Al can oxidise.
Anyway, this suggests that I can leave the Quirk as is and in a couple of weeks or
months the tube should start falling apart...
One cool trick to be done with Al-Ga alloy: put some Al-Ga pellets in clean water
and watch the hydrogen bubble up! Pros: quite a bit of hydrogen fast; Cons:
you'll end up with alumina and Ga, and the only good way to make pure Al is
to perform electrolysis on alumina, which obviously costs more than you can
get out in hydrogen, so it is not as efficient as just performing electrolysis on
water itself to produce hydrogen. So not a winner yet.

Best regards!

[AbbaRue]

@sutra
I don''t think your meter is broken, it just needs a new fuse for the mA section.
This is a common thing, I keep burning mine out too.
Taking milliamp readings is the riskiest thing to do, just go a little over and the fuse blows.
I wish someone could invent a protection circuit for meters when taking mA readings.

Anyway good stuff.