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A 200mV Crystal pressure cell charge a capacitor to 1.2 Volts many times. More energy out than in. Meter can't see all of the energy but a capacitor can. Read on to learn more.
I have run into a bit of an odd problem with my crystal cells. I have one pressure cell that was setup a little bit different than the other pressure cells. The other pressure cells would be made and they would read around 1.3 to 1.4 volts. As these cells sat they would go down to around 400mV and then they would climb back up to around 1.1 volts, I called this the maturing stage of the cell. The cell is alive then dies and then comes back to life. But I was considering a cell going down to 400mV as dead and until it goat around 1 volt then I consider it alive but I starting to have second thoughts.
Now the problem I ran into was that I thought a cell that was lower than 400mV was dead but It seems I’m wrong because of one little pressure cell. What made this cell so very different was that it wasn't allowed to mature before I placed it in cooking oil. The reason why I place any cell in cooking oil is to due to keep the galvanic reaction away, water cause things to corrode and oil and water don't mix so thus the metals don't corrode and the cell doesn't get destroyed. This pressure cell was not allow to mature before going into the oil so it did start off life at 1.3 volts but it was placed in the oil right away and it did things that were normal like go down to 400mV. This cell never went back up and instead kept going down to now its about 180mV. I thought the cell has failed and it was time to give up but I thought what the hell, lets have this cell charge a capacitor to see what will happen. I took an empty capacitor and hook it up to the cell and let it charge it. I left it this way overnight and by morning I checked the cell. To my surprise this cell that was only around 200mV has charged this capacitor up to 1.2V. This seems impossible? How can a 200mV source charge a capacitor up to 1.2 volts? I repeated the experiment many more times with different capacitors with different micro-farads and I kept getting the same results. This 200mV source can charge a capacitor to 1.2 volts or about the normal voltage from a matured cell.
This got me thinking. When I measured the voltage of the pressure cell I would always get around 200mV, even right after removing the cell from the capacitor I would always get around 200mV. Then it hit me, maybe my meter can only read 200mV of the energy and the capacitors are able to see the whole 1.2 volts and would charge to that. The capacitors are able to see the energy and collect it but my meter can't see all of it! This is amazing discovery. The energy is there but the capacitors are needed to convert the energy so that the meter can see all of it. Now the new question is.... what is this energy that my meter can't fully see but the capacitors can and why is it showing up in my pressure crystal cell?
A 200mV Crystal pressure cell charge a capacitor to 1.2 Volts many times. More energy out than in. Meter can't see all of the energy but a capacitor can. Read on to learn more.
I have run into a bit of an odd problem with my crystal cells. I have one pressure cell that was setup a little bit different than the other pressure cells. The other pressure cells would be made and they would read around 1.3 to 1.4 volts. As these cells sat they would go down to around 400mV and then they would climb back up to around 1.1 volts, I called this the maturing stage of the cell. The cell is alive then dies and then comes back to life. But I was considering a cell going down to 400mV as dead and until it goat around 1 volt then I consider it alive but I starting to have second thoughts.
Now the problem I ran into was that I thought a cell that was lower than 400mV was dead but It seems I’m wrong because of one little pressure cell. What made this cell so very different was that it wasn't allowed to mature before I placed it in cooking oil. The reason why I place any cell in cooking oil is to due to keep the galvanic reaction away, water cause things to corrode and oil and water don't mix so thus the metals don't corrode and the cell doesn't get destroyed. This pressure cell was not allow to mature before going into the oil so it did start off life at 1.3 volts but it was placed in the oil right away and it did things that were normal like go down to 400mV. This cell never went back up and instead kept going down to now its about 180mV. I thought the cell has failed and it was time to give up but I thought what the hell, lets have this cell charge a capacitor to see what will happen. I took an empty capacitor and hook it up to the cell and let it charge it. I left it this way overnight and by morning I checked the cell. To my surprise this cell that was only around 200mV has charged this capacitor up to 1.2V. This seems impossible? How can a 200mV source charge a capacitor up to 1.2 volts? I repeated the experiment many more times with different capacitors with different micro-farads and I kept getting the same results. This 200mV source can charge a capacitor to 1.2 volts or about the normal voltage from a matured cell.
This got me thinking. When I measured the voltage of the pressure cell I would always get around 200mV, even right after removing the cell from the capacitor I would always get around 200mV. Then it hit me, maybe my meter can only read 200mV of the energy and the capacitors are able to see the whole 1.2 volts and would charge to that. The capacitors are able to see the energy and collect it but my meter can't see all of it! This is amazing discovery. The energy is there but the capacitors are needed to convert the energy so that the meter can see all of it. Now the new question is.... what is this energy that my meter can't fully see but the capacitors can and why is it showing up in my pressure crystal cell?
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