Homemade Battery! - The DIY "Earth Battery" - Powers Clocks/Watches/Calcs/LED Lights....
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2014
- Homemade Battery. The DIY "Earth Battery". Earth Batteries are easy to make and produce enough power to run many items such as Lcd clocks, watches, pedometers, calculators, LED lighting and more. all that's needed is copper wire (from old extension cord etc.), several small bolts (screws or nails can also be used), an ice cube tray and dirt. that's it. makes a quick and easy battery. works best if it's made with moist dirt/soil. Note: every couple of days the dirt will "dry out" and the voltage will decrease. TO RECHARGE THE BATTERY; just add 1 or 2 teaspoons of water to each "cell" and the battery will be "recharged". for increased voltage make more than one battery and hook them together. Tip: try to use "galvanized" bolts, screws or nails - as they work the best. *included in this video is footage of a larger outdoor "single cell" earth battery i made. it's made using a 2' long piece of copper pipe and a giant (foot long) nail.
UPDATE:(5/25/2018) This battery has now been sitting on a shelf collecting dust for 4 years. so i decided to see if i could recharge it to "like new" condition - by just adding water. here's the youtube video link to see what happened • MY DIY Earth Battery (... - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
omfg! first time I did this in my life. got 12.66 volts!! it works!! I used the gold looking zinc plated bolts and squeezed half a lime in cup of water.
Adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, "connect your circuit to _ground_!" ;~P LOL
you sir, are a genious! :)
... thats where the meaning came from in the 1st place. all sayings etc have profound roots.
David Irving That was what I was referring to. sigh. and so was the OP. sigh x 2 seems you were the stupid one (no offence (not spelt with an s)) for not getting that.
oh the roots of the power of words lol
AuralVirus Or offense. I think that spelling is dependent on location or just personal preference.
wow, you've got yourself some fancy dirt there!! very cool project
We are going to use this one for class thanks!
Electricity is induced when two dissimilar alloys are in the presence of an electrolyte. You would improve upon this model by having a copper rod, your zinc coated bolts (galvanized) in each of the cells (cubes) then connecting them in series until the desired voltage is reached (may have to increase the number of cells under a load) then connect the same about in parallel to increase the amp hour rating of each earth battery so that is can power useful things (chargers ect.) You might also introduce a bit of salt water (an electrolyte) to improve conductivity and the electrolysis process.
So metal blends touching something that has electrolytes (or heat)?
@@TheLadyaec You may consider looking up "the Seebeck effect". Fascinating stuff
You realize they’re already in a series, right? The individual cubes are the cells, and the they’re in a series to make the “battery”, and he can then wire more “batteries” in parallel to increase the voltage and amperage to one load. Also, salt water likely wouldn’t increase the voltage at all because the dirt is already acting as the electrolyte and producing 0.5v per cell which is about average especially for that small of a cell. Adding more electrolytes to the solution that already has enough electrolytes won’t help and can actually cause the voltage to drop if the cell becomes too viscus.
I just realized your comment is from 7 years ago lol
@@eprater1234 I’d forgotten all about this. In series, voltage is additive. In parallel current is additive. Your comments are appreciated, thank you for your input.
I really like this. Thanks for sharing.
This is Science for everyone! Great video for simply gadgets!
Very cool...now I have to try it!
Learn something new everyday. Thanks!
Hey, thats a great little video!....thanks, from lesley in New Zealand.
Fanstastic ! Thanks for posting !
this is amazing 😲 I gotta try this! thanks for posting!
oh ... only 7 years , well did you build one ?????
this actually works, made myself one yesterday for my electricity class
What kind of dirt do I use?
@@ericjohnson8586 you too man ? :)
@@ericjohnson8586 the dirty kind .
DId u get any amps?
Electricity class?
I actually tested my own after watching this to confirm its not a scam, but it's real!!
yep it's real 🙂✔
Great video! I'm gonna try it!
awesome vid!! thanks for making!! :)
Gotta keep some copper wires and galvanized bolts in my car in case of an emergency hahaha
Pretty cool!. Any amps in that? I would relay like to know. If you made larger cells, Would you get more voltage?
Love the information. I enjoy your videos. If an apocalypse happens, people are going to regret not watching these. Thanks for all the work.
Batteries won't really help in the acutal apocalyspe.
@@llllllllIIIIIIIIIIIwhat actual apocalypse?
you’d have to be living pretty comfortably to want to move on to generating electricity amidst the apocalypse. I’d be more worried about collecting food and water! Lol.
thanks for helping me get first place for engineering in the science fair 4 years ago. i even got accepted into nationals but i was stopped there. not like i wanted to go any further, i just wanted the pizza party
What's the internal resistance of something like this? Open circuit voltage is one thing, but how much does it drop when there's a load?
delighted with this... better than a big bucket. this is portable. and i got the ice cube trays too.
well . 8 years ??? - did you build it or just post a pointless , meaningless message with nothing
this. is very Cool stuff man you are a gift...!🍄
That is pretty awesome but how do you keep it attached to the item you want to charge?
Magnesium Joint Sachet
The magnesium filings were saved. I placed them in a piece of paper towel. I laid a bare stranded copper wire in the filings. Then rolled the group like a joint. I then bent the metal joint in half and sealed it shut with a second piece of copper. I completed the magnesium sachet by twisting both wires together. I then tested the magnesium sachet with carbon in a tap water bath. The amps came in at 1.3 milliamperes. Again, the shaving have points and powered metal has alot of surface area by mass. This was a very small amount. This is the technique of modern battery manufacturing. It works well.
Thank you so much ... I'm building mine tomorrow
How did that go?
im thinking would using several 55 gallon plastic bins with big rods and thicker gauge copper in them make it have a higher voltage output?
good staff.. pretty.. cool.... I like it..
nice work
Big thumbs up for this vid!!
this is amazing!!!!!!!
Well, this is rather interesting, so i'm most likely going to use this sometime, but oh man, didn't know you could literally take power out of earth, that's just... logical... yet quite cool :)
That moment you wake up and your NEO
*you're
this may have been asked but what kind of milli amps will it put out?
If you push the bolts deeper in the dirt (if possible) then you get a bit more voltage. In your case you couldn't do it. A bit more deeper cells and longer bolts could have made it. This advice was only for the bolts and not the copper. No need to get the copper deeper. However, a few more cells do the same thing if needed, to get more volts. A combination of Stainless steel and aluminum works also well and I prefer that, especially if you want to dip often.
Very nice video, by the way. Thanks!
dip often?
What do you mean dip often?
@@Randy2747 By that I mean to water it more often. If its to dry, the experiment want work. There much be always moisture in it or no electricity.
Desertsun wrote what was also my thought:
"Note: every couple of days the dirt will "dry out" and the voltage will decrease. TO RECHARGE THE BATTERY; just add 1 or 2 teaspoons of water to each "cell" and the battery will be "recharged"."
so I'm just guessing on how this works. the copper is more conductive so it pulls the heat or electricity or whatever to the bolt which is not as conductive but still more so than the soil. so the power is able to flow in one direction making a positive and negative charge? and the moister makes the soil more conductive making the energy created from the heat flow more freely? if so could you enclose the soil so the moisture stays in the soil and leave it out in the sun after spraying the container a satin black to absorb more heat/energy?
how can it be equalized acid-lead battery which is 12 v, and can it be connected to inverter to make 220 ac volts.?
Will it work attached to an inverter to convert the bolts into a higher former electricity
Have you tried having the copper-end towards north and galvanized iron towards south?
I clicked this video just to hear him say "dirt" xD I love how he says it
Interesting, I'm definitely going to try.
sounds good. let me know if you have any questions.
dirt cheap
lol
I cant aford tho :^(
stonks
Which kind of dirt is it sand and water
What if you mixed epson salt with the water would it have more volts
I wonder if moistening the soil with salt water would increase the efficiency/power?
How do you connect it to something? I see you have one screw / nail at the end on the left and the coffee wire on the right. Do you need to connect both the nail and the wire to whatever you’re connecting it to? Or just touch the copper wire to the object? If you had a lightbulb how would you make it light up? And which side is which (positive and negative) if you did have to connect both
Are the screws at the end hooked together? It wasn't clear to me what the ends looked like.
Please enlighten me. Thank you
Neat!
How many milliamps from your array ? How long does it last ? Do you have to recharge it back with another electicity source ?
This would be really cool to make a big one of these. What would you say would be the limit, or is there a limit? That may sound silly but this could be a life saver! Not much to carry around in a bug out bag, cause everywhere you go there is dirt!
Super video
Pretty neat
amazing....bro wwat is the principle?
Also if it gives off volts is it a positive polarity? I am not very electrical savvy. Savvy?
this is badass
Cool! Thanks!
sure thing. i'm glad you liked it!
can we put table salt solution to wet the dirt? does it will give higher amps?
The Great Pyramid of Giza was actually a power producing machine ...
There are large aquifer's under these pyramids which add to the earths generation of power ....I think it you applied this technology to an area where there is a large under ground aquifers you would produce more power ..
How much of voltage do you get if you put silver instead of copper wires?
Very cool
Increasing the amperage for earth batteries is quite simple. A law of physics states that wiring in parallel will add the amps of two power sources. We simple wire a solar panel to the earth battery. We build the earth battery to the desired voltage in series. Earth batteries are the cheapest voltage around. Then wire a solar panel to the EB in parallel. Boom best of both worlds. Real power.
Could you do this for outdoor lighting with pot plants for your energy source ?
I was thinking the same?!
Amazing! I'm not sure if you mentioned it already but how long can these be expected to last given than you keep them moist and they're being used permanantly?
it depends on the bacteria releasing electrolytes
Not much power, but you can add several more ice trays wired in parallel (see google) to increase capacity (same voltage). Was just reading that your anodes and cathodes need to be correctly in the ground north and south for max power. Tesla automobiles uses 2,800 Panasonic 18650 battery cells, each of which has an average capacity of 2600mAh. Some wired in series to get voltage up, then several of those wired in parallel to get capacity up to 5.3 kWh (230 Ah). Nicola Tesla's "Radiant Receiver" could suck power from the sky, which would charge battery or capacitor banks, or even direct.
That's neat! So how long will the dirt last if I keep adding water to the soil whenever it drys out? Also what's the theory behind it? How does it work :?
if i use a bigger ice cube hence the amount of dirt is increased, should the length of copper wire need to be increase too?
can you ad vinegar to it? would that boost it?
Interesting!
Could you start a fire this way by shorting out the circuits over some tinder?
The copper pole and nail in the ground caught me . How does that work.?
using normal dirt?
Can't wait to start playing
Does it produce heat? I wanna try it for a project.
What were you running to the devices themselves? Just the positive? The positive and the negative?? You sped through that section, which is the most important. Thank you.
is the voltage proportional to the number of dirt cubes?
will this work with nails? do they have to be polished to work?
Keep exploring my friends, you're on to more than you can truly understand. May I also suggest, adding some salt water to your soil, or trying it on a salt water river system banks.
It may be that the challenge is to use only dirt and metal. but what about adding acid and a bit of water to the dirt.. understadibly it will up the voltage but what about the amps
A tip from a curious Brazilian:
Try to use salt just below each earth cell, it will probably help when they are refilled with water.
Can this be put into a inverter and a toster or tv for camping
What are the bolts made of? iron or zink?
thanks
Is there a way to take this dirt power and use it to charge car batteries or laptop batteries?
What if you use an acid like lime juice or vinaigrette in place of the water? I think the Baghdad battery used liquid with high acid content.
Cool!
instructions unclear i ended up making an arc reactor...from plastic bags.
woah...
I accidentally made a black hole, how to stop it please help
@@Andrew-ci1dg Glad you were able to figure it out man... You deserve a Nobel for all the accomplishments!....
@@Andrew-ci1dg get a divorce
😂😂😂😂
do i need to isolate the dirt from each bolt?
Would using vinegar instead of water with the dirt increase the effectiveness of this at all?
If I understand, the dirt is neutral. Isn't the reaction between the copper and the nail?
good eye.
+Andrew_Owens I tried similar esperiment at home and everytime i failed. I used a common 1,2 v 0,22A light bulb. I have to get some leds... Then i'll try again. Soil is neutral? should y use some acid?? :)
***** then the acid becomes the electrolyte, just like your car battery. if this produced a charge it would be because the dirt is wet. the capacitance of dirt is weak, and in this demonstration would only be a matrix to Hold an electrolyte not yet added. this is basically an unfinished battery.
@@sajkdnsaklfhnj what if you use dirt with an acidic ph level?
we're the bolts connected to each other under the dirt?
isn't there a way to increase the volts by adding more? like combining 3 for example >.>
Is it the amount of dirt, the type of bolt as a rod ?
works with tap water as a medium too, same results
How do you connect it to a thing like a calculator or in my case a string of LED lights… like fairy lights…
Thank You for the video and information. Could you take 20 of those and make 110 volts? Also what kind of amps would these produce? Again Thank You.
hi. i'm not sure the limits of these but theoretically you could make a pretty powerful setup if you used enough trays
How much current did you get out of this?
I just made this using zinc plated iron bolts and got 6.8 volts out of it.
Can you kindly tell me what current range you are able to pull? Thank you
@Budget Boost DIY could you explain that, please?
Boooohoooo mines bigger than yours 🤣
My question is how long can it light a light bulb
for a few hours at max. But you can always use a Joule-thief circuit to get out the best of it. Although we are talking about leds, not bulbs..
No está mal, 20 cubiteras de estas son cerca de 100 voltios!!
Hello. First of all, thank you for the nice video. I have two questions.
1.) Which soil is best for this, what kind of "saturation" should i look for?
2.) How much Watt hours can i expect? Im talking about how long will things run with this until the soil is "emptied" of electrons ?
what did you use the battery that was put directly into the earth? Have you ever used these batteries for gardening purposes? My hypothesis is that this is one of the missing elements for use in the gardening situation. I might give it a try this season. but I would like some input from someone that's made one already....
How long does it work for?
How can I up the voltage and current?