Since I got a soldering kit for Christmas, I thought about making a homemade solar array from the solar panels from solar calculators. I'd really like to see you do something of the sort too.
Lots of solar panel calculators have fake solar panels, plus the real ones are very inefficient and low quality. Please instead buy dedicated solar cells.
Solar panels from calculators are made for low light conditions like inside a house. Not for direct sunlight I would recommend buying some 5×5 solar panels online instead.
Will cost a lot and won't be efficient at all, but it's probably a good idea if you want to learn a little about soldiering... Probably will be better to buy a diy kit or to create something easy like a charger with a dc-dc converter Or maybe a micro flashlight with supercapacitors
Woah I've been off this channel for a little while now, and I'm very impressed how fast your channel has grown last I knew, you were celebrating over 10k subs! Congratulations! You deserve it.
I'm hoping by the time I have kids, your channel and understanding is what they are learning from. You have great potential, and I love your dedication.
Hey man, thanks for this great clip. My son replicated it to show it to a bunch of classmates in elementary school and they all loved it. So honestly made, among so much wasteful and fraudulent similar content on TH-cam
Huge magnifying glass to heat the top of the solar panel, and water to cool the bottom. With thermal Si and make a low power heat element too, it must be touching the solar panel away from negative. When it is done see if having the heating of the si panel is worth putting on every solar panel, with or without the extra heat element.
Many, many years ago I made a solar cell from a selenium rectifier and aluminum foil. Selenium rectifiers were used in very old vacuum tube televisions.
I liked that you showed that light of different wavelengths have different voltage potentials, as opposed to just sitting it in the sunlight as saying "lookie-there"
I was actually interested in making a hand crank car battery starter with a capacitor bank and a few LEDs to show the capacitors are charged to full and maybe a few resistors to bleed off the extra charge between capacitors. Can you something like this to your fan it would be great. Thanks
Can you make a sunlight powered light bulb by concentrating sunlight by a concave mirror then passing this light through optical fibre cable to a glass bulb where if you can somehow scatter that concentrated beam of light . I can send you a diagram of what I mean if you're interested in it . Thank you !
I would think that using an arduino to control a tracking unit for solar cells is a bit over-engineering. I could do it with a couple of 4093's and a few 2n2222's. I know the arduino is quite a capable unit, but old school chips and transistors do the job very well and are quite easy to use with no programming needed.
What would happen if you used silicon dioxide powder mixed with cupuric oxide powder as a pure panel held together with conductive glue. Use a plastic compartment with a copper floor. Or combine several materials with different absorption spectrums.... Might make a great second project
I uses electrolysis to do this with a 120v d.c. source and a 12 gage copper wire as the electrodes and was able to use an incandescent warm white light to dimly light two water clear red LEDs using my body capacitance as ground I guess. The ground on the wall socket works the same. I haven't been able to do it with a 6×2 copper plate nor get the sun to light the LEDs with either. Couldn't a series and parallel array get much better results? Or would one giant panel do more work?
Many high school students may have split the water molecule by applying 12 VDC to two separate metalic plates imerssed in a glass with water. If we apply resonance to this setup by adding a pulsating solid state circuit with Voltage and frequency control (0-50 VDC, 0-100MHz), we should be able to optimize the efficiency of the process to a point where the input energy is lower than the output. This is not theory, it has already been done and patented: th-cam.com/video/1db-UqlBa8M/w-d-xo.html&t=1h26m8s
Hey greetings from france, when i was 16 i have had the same pen than u many souvenirs with it ^^ love your videos keep going dude : la science dépasse les frontières
awesome dude, i really love ur channel. also recently i have been trying to make a cell phone gsm jammer(ONLY for education purposes XD) , but sadly i failed.
How would the current change if you decrease the distance between plates ? In the lead acid batteries for example, the plates are literally pressed into each other having separator between them, would a porous separator wet with NaOh electrolyte & two plates squeezed on it make a different amount of current? Please make a video on it, with different electrolytes, possibly one with Copper oxide powder added into electrolyte...... please!
How do we know its producing electric energy from the solar energy, and not acting as just a solar-controlled battery? Maybe the chemical reaction between the plates and the electrolyte form a battery that is only active when light hits it, as if its a battery with a photodiode in series.
Don't do the Arduino idea. if you look it up the Sun and the wind move in the same direction. If you have ever seen one of those rooster things on the top of a barn, they always move the same direction as the wind
I don't know if it is because I changed my computer screen to a larger one, but i think your head it's to close to the camera and maybe it would look better if you get it a little far away. By the way very interesting video
hey i have one question my zvs driver is not working too well i have hv ( around 25kv at 9volts and 7amps) but i dont have plasma like you had and it heats up very fast and if i go over 9 v it stops working and it heats up a lot do you konw what it could be or anybody else
my favorite part is when you prove the concept by blocking the sunlight. pure science, no bull. good stuff.
That was great, I love that he showed it actually working
Man you've matured a lot since I started watching. Sponsorships and everything, that's awesome dude, I am so glad you're being recognized!
Thank you for making these videos, still one of a few channels that put real science in. Keep up the good work!
James Thompson true man
Hey I like that green Einstein in the background, it's pretty.
Since I got a soldering kit for Christmas, I thought about making a homemade solar array from the solar panels from solar calculators. I'd really like to see you do something of the sort too.
Truly Infamous thats a great idea hope he does
Lots of solar panel calculators have fake solar panels, plus the real ones are very inefficient and low quality. Please instead buy dedicated solar cells.
Solar panels from calculators are made for low light conditions like inside a house.
Not for direct sunlight I would recommend buying some 5×5 solar panels online instead.
Will cost a lot and won't be efficient at all, but it's probably a good idea if you want to learn a little about soldiering...
Probably will be better to buy a diy kit or to create something easy like a charger with a dc-dc converter
Or maybe a micro flashlight with supercapacitors
If that doesnt work, try udeing standard leds. They have the same effect, and are actually not so bad
Woah I've been off this channel for a little while now, and I'm very impressed how fast your channel has grown last I knew, you were celebrating over 10k subs! Congratulations! You deserve it.
Great video Nate! I've always wondered how panels work
Thanks! :)
and as great as our tech is we only get 20% of the energy
I like the idea of the arduino solar tracker. Maybe you could make a renewable energy series.
Oliver Marvin have your post get a 100 likes!
Are you gonna post? Please don’t quit TH-cam, you are like the best TH-camr ever!!!
Best channel I've found on TH-cam you've taught me a lot
I like how this man never tells you to not do any of his experiments at home
Thanks :) Just brought back my memories, when I was in class 7th I did this during the holidays 😅
now you can possibly make a homemade transistors now
I'm hoping by the time I have kids, your channel and understanding is what they are learning from. You have great potential, and I love your dedication.
Thank u for making these videos our school textbooks are useless and these r just perfect
This is the channel we need in TH-cam.
Very informational, well done!
You totally already have science teacher writing hahaha
Hey man, thanks for this great clip. My son replicated it to show it to a bunch of classmates in elementary school and they all loved it. So honestly made, among so much wasteful and fraudulent similar content on TH-cam
Now lets see some alphavoltaic and betavoltaic cells.
Mr. Chang YES!
Please never stop making videos.
Very cool! Good luck with your studies
Huge magnifying glass to heat the top of the solar panel, and water to cool the bottom. With thermal Si and make a low power heat element too, it must be touching the solar panel away from negative. When it is done see if having the heating of the si panel is worth putting on every solar panel, with or without the extra heat element.
build buy and master solar electric panels get less and less effective as they get hot.
Many, many years ago I made a solar cell from a selenium rectifier and aluminum foil. Selenium rectifiers were used in very old vacuum tube televisions.
I get so happy when a new video is out!
You are gifted in explaining)
Ooo can you make a battery out of random things found around (like in the trash). Kind of like a apocolypes style battery? That would be awesome
Great stuff! Something I've not seen before. Really enjoying your content these days.
7:30 really cool pen
A Parker Urban fountain pen.
Super! Thank you very much!
I love your channel and your videos. I see you gaining very many subscribers in the future
I liked that you showed that light of different wavelengths have different voltage potentials, as opposed to just sitting it in the sunlight as saying "lookie-there"
This was one your better videos in my opinion.
Keystone Science thanks for your awesome video
Thank you very much for all your interesting videos.
Thanks bro because of your levitation video I won my college circuit designing completion.you having a awesome collection of projects.
If you listen to the Soviet amateur physics textbook. There it was recommended to oxidize the copper plate in the oven
Oh, man. That's wicked.
Uhh a Parker vector. I do appreciate a man with style 👍
Dude all your videos are awesome thank you!
Who needs solar when you can have a fusion reactor 😂
Haha, i take it you came from Cody XD
I was actually interested in making a hand crank car battery starter with a capacitor bank and a few LEDs to show the capacitors are charged to full and maybe a few resistors to bleed off the extra charge between capacitors. Can you something like this to your fan it would be great. Thanks
very brilliant i love this channel, it brings out and does real science
Have you ever considered making a wind turbine? That would be pretty nifty to see.
That was - especially nice!
You should do a video on logic circuit projects.
Can you make a sunlight powered light bulb by concentrating sunlight by a concave mirror then passing this light through optical fibre cable to a glass bulb where if you can somehow scatter that concentrated beam of light . I can send you a diagram of what I mean if you're interested in it . Thank you !
You should make a solar panel using black piping and water, then use the water to run into a heat sink and use peltier tiles to create the electricity
I would think that using an arduino to control a tracking unit for solar cells is a bit over-engineering. I could do it with a couple of 4093's and a few 2n2222's. I know the arduino is quite a capable unit, but old school chips and transistors do the job very well and are quite easy to use with no programming needed.
You should do an episode on railguns I am trying to build one and would love to learn more
What would happen if you used silicon dioxide powder mixed with cupuric oxide powder as a pure panel held together with conductive glue. Use a plastic compartment with a copper floor.
Or combine several materials with different absorption spectrums....
Might make a great second project
Hell yeah, it's Quantum Mechanics! HΨ=EΨ mother equation of nature. 😊
I've wanted to know how to make one for a while 😀
Sooooo what I want to know is….. IS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY A FRIGGIN AWESOME SOLAR PANEL!!!?!
I love your videos. Thank you, and keep it up.
Do you think you could do an in depth instruction video on how to make a nixie watch?
I uses electrolysis to do this with a 120v d.c. source and a 12 gage copper wire as the electrodes and was able to use an incandescent warm white light to dimly light two water clear red LEDs using my body capacitance as ground I guess. The ground on the wall socket works the same. I haven't been able to do it with a 6×2 copper plate nor get the sun to light the LEDs with either. Couldn't a series and parallel array get much better results? Or would one giant panel do more work?
Many high school students may have split the water molecule by applying 12 VDC
to two separate metalic plates imerssed in a glass with water. If we apply resonance
to this setup by adding a pulsating solid state circuit with Voltage and frequency
control (0-50 VDC, 0-100MHz), we should be able to optimize the efficiency of the process
to a point where the input energy is lower than the output. This is not theory, it has
already been done and patented:
th-cam.com/video/1db-UqlBa8M/w-d-xo.html&t=1h26m8s
he’s all grown up now but sounds the same it’s awesome
Hey greetings from france, when i was 16 i have had the same pen than u many souvenirs with it ^^ love your videos keep going dude : la science dépasse les frontières
Great video as ever. How about using an amplifier circuit to use your home-made solar panel to make a light activated device?
Good video, but I might correct the "atoms" vs "electrons" thing at around 5:20
Hey, Cody!Where should I go to learn more about how electronics and schematics work?
Can you do a video explaining logic gates and how to build a computer?
awesome dude, i really love ur channel.
also recently i have been trying to make a cell phone gsm jammer(ONLY for education purposes XD) , but sadly i failed.
So using this method and one square meter you could use it as a uv exposure sensor?
Amazing! :)
very good idea sir.
How would the current change if you decrease the distance between plates ? In the lead acid batteries for example, the plates are literally pressed into each other having separator between them, would a porous separator wet with NaOh electrolyte & two plates squeezed on it make a different amount of current? Please make a video on it, with different electrolytes, possibly one with Copper oxide powder added into electrolyte...... please!
I have forever wanted to know how to make one of these special solar panels
Wow that's a lot of horses. Did you hear 500 foot candles lol
100th view, yay^^ still love the videos;)
thanks sky george! you have been around for a while :)
Archiving this video for the apocalypse. Thanks!
How do we know its producing electric energy from the solar energy, and not acting as just a solar-controlled battery? Maybe the chemical reaction between the plates and the electrolyte form a battery that is only active when light hits it, as if its a battery with a photodiode in series.
Why do you need an electrolyte? What’s inside conventional solar cells? I doubt that there’s a liquid in it
What about using microbs to emulate energy. Look at UBC Canada and solor inovation .
Nice video! What about building a small solar power kit that could power charging a cell phone?
Didn't know you had a blue tesla also hanging on your wall :D
Can you think about making an student attendance checker in class electronically through firebase server using esp8266.By the way love ur video s
Solar powered car my man (If its enough to power it)
I happen to have noticed the tesla coil in the corner. Is there any chance of you converting it to a audio modulated tesla coil in the future?
So if u have used the correct semi conductor that your solar panel would have been alot better?
what happens when sand is tased or electrocuted or mixed with lightning and can u make retro reflection panels for stealth
Would it be possible to achieve an even distribution of cuprous oxide using ferric chloride?
super explain in this video
Wow that copper plate looks amazing once it's off the burner.
Make the sun tracking Arduino and have it charge a car battery box with a bunch of different plugs or make a super long lasting solar powered radio
Can you use gamma rays to make solar panels work and wouldn't that make more electrical voltage or current.
Don't do the Arduino idea. if you look it up the Sun and the wind move in the same direction. If you have ever seen one of those rooster things on the top of a barn, they always move the same direction as the wind
wouldn't a toaster oven set up like a DIY reflow oven give you a more consistant result for producing cuprous oxide?
I think you should build a water splitter with Thant solar panel.
While making a ZVS driver is it safe to use IRFZ44N instead of IRFP260N?
A good one may be one solar pannel made from leds.
I don't know if it is because I changed my computer screen to a larger one, but i think your head it's to close to the camera and maybe it would look better if you get it a little far away. By the way very interesting video
When you're talking to the camera(I dont know if it was clear)
Eons are a measure of time so I guess he's right that the solar panel he got is older than the one he built.
Foot candles..? I'm a fan but I'm also a fan of SI Units.
hold up ? "candles" ? when you're measuring light, isn't it candela ?
hey i have one question my zvs driver is not working too well i have hv ( around 25kv at 9volts and 7amps) but i dont have plasma like you had and it heats up very fast and if i go over 9 v it stops working and it heats up a lot do you konw what it could be or anybody else
You should make a charge controller or a voltage regulator for that flexible solar panel.
Really nice! :)