A Battery You Must Build

[@mazdalorean]

Cool little project. Nice to see you building stuff again. Thanks for the show. Merry Christmas, Joe

[@flash001USA]

Hey man, Merry Christmas back at you and your family.

[@rongray4118]

Blessings to You and Your Family, Flash!! Haven't seen a video from you in a LONG time! We are up on the mountaintop and off grid - finally. We are using a 48v forklift battery to power ourselves!

[@flash001USA]

Merry CHRISTmas to you and your family sir. I am still kicking up dirt and doing a few fun videos here and there like this one. What kind of off-grid setup are you running?

[@Blizzard9500]

A battery is a devise to store electrical potential. These are voltaic cells, they produce electrical potential. Big difference. Nice build, inexpensive and simple.

[@flash001USA]

Yeah on a technical definition you are 100% correct. To the average person they will always see this as a battery lol! When you see a factory that does large scale production of voltaic cells which are another word for your standard off the shelf heavy duty carbon zinc or alkaline voltaic cells, they package them and sell them in stores as batteries. The moment those batteries are assembled, they are self charged voltaic cells ready for the store shelves. It's pretty cool that you can take some simple off shelf materials like this and actually build something viable that works. I see a lot of videos where people are making tinfoil/carbon voltaic cells "batteries" but the current just isn't there to really do anything past lighting up a tiny LED or to spin a small motor up with. The the internal reaction can't keep up with the current demand of even a small load not unless you are beefing up the electrolyte with something that makes the internal reaction step up it's game. For me this was a fun project to take on and it's also an educational thing and I really hope maybe some younger people take the time to watch this and videos like this and maybe become the next person(s) to take this kind of stuff to the next level. Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment.

[@wpgenlighten4truth2]

Amazing Job, and Thank you for your Work i have been just getting into Battery construction, and you have Helped .....Thanks Again ....!

[@flash001USA]

Thank you for watching and commenting on this video. This may be a good project for you to give it a shot with. Have a merry Christmas.

[@Josefppaz]

As always very cool Mike Merry Christmas man

[@flash001USA]

Merry Christmas back at you Joe. I hope all is well on your end. This was actually a pretty fun project and it was successful which makes it even better.

[@Josefppaz]

@ Me to my friend I’m successful in a bad way, to many Christmas cookies making me gain weight 🤣

[@flash001USA]

@@Josefppaz And that's why I try to work out... LOL.

[@CurCam713]

Reminds me of Francisco Pacheco and his saltwater powered boat. The saltwater powered a battery that also generated hydrogen gas.

[@CurCam713]

PS. Nice workshop setup. The carbon rod comes from NON-alkaline batteries. Most batteries they sell these days are alkaline. I'll have to look around. Did you use a tap for the screw or just drill a smaller hole and let the threads do the work?

[@flash001USA]

@@CurCam713 Alkaline batteries don't have a carbon rod. Instead they have their zinc/potassium hydroxide and other chemical mixtures in the center of the battery with a brass rod interface which is the Negative side of the battery. You can still find the common El-Cheapo D cells all over the place for a few bucks for a 2 pack. The good thing is you can even rob these from old dead batteries if you have any laying around. Unless you place them in harsh chemicals or accidentally drop and break them, the carbon rods will last a long long time.

[@flash001USA]

@@CurCam713 Hey I almost forgot to answer your question. I just drilled the hole with a slightly smaller drill then the screw size which allowed the screw to self tap the threads into the rod. It worked like a charm.

[@mazdalorean]

I just had a thought. I wonder if you can use carbon arc gouging rods from a welding supply store as the positive rod? Joe

[@flash001USA]

If it's a carbon rod it should work. I think I'll take the time and go online and see what they have to offer.

[@TheRedneckprepper]

Try driving a copper rod in the ground about 3 ft. and 10 ft. apart and take a reading !

[@flash001USA]

Oh hell yeah! You will measure a voltage across the ground like that. If you have a long wire antenna that's about 100 feet or so in length, that too will measure some serious voltages from the antenna to ground! If the wire is long enough you can set up a spark gap and it will spark every time the charge builds up.

[@TheRedneckprepper]

@@flash001USA yep

[@CurCam713]

@@flash001USA But there's not much power there just like the difference in voltage charge over height in the atmosphere. Right?

[@flash001USA]

@CurCam713 The voltage across a horizontal long wire antenna can easily be a few hundred volts but it will be lacking in any real working current. Nevertheless, there is enough there that you could Harvest it overtime if you wanted to.

[@richhall1808]

Say a week of rain and no sun for recharging, these cells are the ticket!