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AbbaRue

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HWL Cell
« on: April 17, 2008, 07:39:10 AM »
Hello to all battery researchers:
    A group of people are working on the Crystal Battery based on John Hutchison. 
I didn't want to confuse there thread with my own crystal battery research, because I am using different ingredients.
Instead of using Rochelle Salt, my cell uses monoammonium phosphate (MAP)
Which is a common fertilizer sold as MAP or 11-52-0.
Another name for it is ammonium dihydrogen phosphate (ADP).
I will just refer to it as MAP. That's an easy name to remember, the MAP to endless energy.
It is a piezoelectric crystal material which has some very interesting properties, check out this link:

 http://www.fsu.com/pages/2007/10/19/adp.html

And this stuff is dirt cheap. The local Co-op sells it for about $850 / tonn.
I bought 100 pounds of it for $55. You can make a lot of cells with 100 pounds of crystals.
Or you can make your own by adding Phosphoric Acid to Ammonia until it turns slightly acidic.
It has no known toxic effects, you can almost eat the stuff, but that isn't recommended.
It is also used for powder fire extinguishers, so that tells you how safe it is around heat.
It also has a much higher melting point then Rochell Salt, which may come in handy down the road.
Melts at about twice the boiling point of water.

This stuff looks really promising. I placed the MAP into a coffee filter and tied it off.
I then place the filter full of MAP into a pot of water and warm it up stirring the bundle around.
I then poured the solution onto a Stainless Steel pie plate and dried it quickly so a thin layer of crystal formed in the plate.
When I place a piece of Aluminum foil on top the the crystal deposit I get over 700mV.
I connected a 100k resistor to it and still got over 700mV. out of it.
This looks promising. I hope some others will join me in this new adventure.

By the way "HWL Cell" stands for "Harold Walter Lehmann's Cell" since I started this project.

Till Later Harold.
 

Koen1

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2008, 10:51:13 AM »
Harold/AbbaRue,

although it is great that you've started your own cell line,
why don't you just keep it in the crystal cell thread?
There's quite a few other variations that don't use the
Rochelle salts either, and they're in that thread still...?

Well enough whining, on the subject of your MAP idea:
interesting :D

What is the amperage you get with and without the resistor in place?

And you're still going for the SS->Alumina idea, aren't you? ;)
Well it's worth a try. :)

Keep up the good work. ;D
« Last Edit: April 17, 2008, 12:05:54 PM by Koen1 »

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2008, 11:22:50 AM »
Hello Harold
Very good to reed,that the crystal battery is developed in pultiple ways.
For me as a reader it is now easy to organice between the topics,since there
is a seperated MAP based battery.

helmut

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2008, 04:50:56 PM »


This stuff looks really promising. I placed the MAP into a coffee filter and tied it off.
I then place the filter full of MAP into a pot of water and warm it up stirring the bundle around.
I then poured the solution onto a Stainless Steel pie plate and dried it quickly so a thin layer of crystal formed in the plate.
When I place a piece of Aluminum foil on top the the crystal deposit I get over 700mV.
I connected a 100k resistor to it and still got over 700mV. out of it.
This looks promising. I hope some others will join me in this new adventure.

By the way "HWL Cell" stands for "Harold Walter Lehmann's Cell" since I started this project.

Till Later Harold.
 


Harold

Just to  make sure  I understand  this .

You  desolve  some Map in water ....... then   you say  you dry it rapidly on  stainless steel......  that  could  mean   boiling off the water ...

I  am  guessing that  the  crystal  layer is  just a few  thousands thick.

have  you  tried getting a similar affect by melting it ?
I would  think that  the  aluminum layer  would  have much  better  electrical connection  if it was  put in place  while the Map was still melted.

gary


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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2008, 08:07:43 PM »
I dried it using a convection oven, which is designed to cook food using hot air.
I set the oven at 300 deg. F. and ran it until most of the water was gone.
This formed a thin layer of crystal, then I left it to air dry the rest of the way.
I tried drying it completely but the crystal formed bubbles which I didn't want.
The crystal layer is about 1mm to 2mm thick.

I tried heating the crystals, not a good idea, the whole room smelled of Phosphorus,
and the crystal turned to a gummy mess thats hard to get off.
Heating to the curry temperature should be fine but don't try melting the stuff.

I'm still working on a better way to make cells out of this stuff.
I was thinking of getting some nice white quartz sand and using it for spacers between the plates.
Mix it up together in a little water and placing it between plates, then letting it dry.

My test cell is the SS plate with a 6cm x 4cm piece of Aluminum foil laying across the crystals.
I weighed the foil down with pennies, a simple test cell until I make some better cells.
Measurements:
Open circuit 800mV keeps creeping up had it up over 900mV.
    100k resistor 720mV.
      10k resistor 400mV kept steady over night
        1k resistor  75mV
       100 ohm resistor 32mV pressing on the pennies got it up to 40mV
After removing the 100 ohm resistor the cell jumped up to over 500mV.
And then continued climbing until it reached 800mV after about 5 minutes.

The main problem is the aluminum foil isn't keeping a good connection.
Some kind of conductive powder would be much better.

I'm still thinking up a better solution to this.
I'm considering coins covered with crystal stacked on each other to increase the voltage.

One point I want to make is I haven't applied any voltage to the cell to polarize it.
Doing so could get much better results, I just got the MAP a few days ago and am still learning about it.




resonanceman

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2008, 10:43:46 PM »
I dried it using a convection oven, which is designed to cook food using hot air.
I set the oven at 300 deg. F. and ran it until most of the water was gone.
This formed a thin layer of crystal, then I left it to air dry the rest of the way.
I tried drying it completely but the crystal formed bubbles which I didn't want.
The crystal layer is about 1mm to 2mm thick.

I tried heating the crystals, not a good idea, the whole room smelled of Phosphorus,
and the crystal turned to a gummy mess thats hard to get off.
Heating to the curry temperature should be fine but don't try melting the stuff.

I'm still working on a better way to make cells out of this stuff.
I was thinking of getting some nice white quartz sand and using it for spacers between the plates.
Mix it up together in a little water and placing it between plates, then letting it dry.

My test cell is the SS plate with a 6cm x 4cm piece of Aluminum foil laying across the crystals.
I weighed the foil down with pennies, a simple test cell until I make some better cells.
Measurements:
Open circuit 800mV keeps creeping up had it up over 900mV.
    100k resistor 720mV.
      10k resistor 400mV kept steady over night
        1k resistor  75mV
       100 ohm resistor 32mV pressing on the pennies got it up to 40mV
After removing the 100 ohm resistor the cell jumped up to over 500mV.
And then continued climbing until it reached 800mV after about 5 minutes.

The main problem is the aluminum foil isn't keeping a good connection.
Some kind of conductive powder would be much better.

I'm still thinking up a better solution to this.
I'm considering coins covered with crystal stacked on each other to increase the voltage.

One point I want to make is I haven't applied any voltage to the cell to polarize it.
Doing so could get much better results, I just got the MAP a few days ago and am still learning about it.





Thanks for  explaining  a little more Harold

It  sounds interesting .......and    simple enough  for a non  chemist  to do .


Unfortunantly   I am between  jobs right now and I have about  100  things I want to try  for  every  dollar  I have available to try  them . 

Personaly  I think I would go for the  sticky mess    :)
batterys  are supposed to be messy arn't they?

A sticky mess between   2 dissimilar  metals ......apply  a voltage and let it cool  down  .......

It  almost has to work .       :)



gary   

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2008, 11:01:12 PM »
If  the  sticky  cell worked ........  assuming  that   it gets liquid  enough ......what  about  potting  a  Stubblfield  earth battery in it ?

It  might be like a battery  within a battery


gary

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2008, 03:13:20 PM »
for a spacer possibly you could use a piece of paper towel, TP, blotter paper, something porous.  use  a paper punch (or your 45 cal dirty harry) and perforate it, lay it on the foil.  then just pour the solution on it.  just a thought - Duane

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2008, 04:52:05 PM »
for a spacer possibly you could use a piece of paper towel, TP, blotter paper, something porous.  use  a paper punch (or your 45 cal dirty harry) and perforate it, lay it on the foil.  then just pour the solution on it.  just a thought - Duane


Duane

I am assuming you are talking about  potting the  earth battery in Map

I was   thinking more on the lines of  taking a finiched  earth battery  and  finding a  container that it fits into nicely

Then  desolving some  Map in  water .........putting the whole thing in the oven ........and keeping the coil covered with  Map   until  enough water desolves so that the whole thing  starts to get solid .


If  it doesn't  work ..........THEN ........it is time to get  dirty harry


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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2008, 05:27:38 PM »
for a spacer possibly you could use a piece of paper towel, TP, blotter paper, something porous.  use  a paper punch (or your 45 cal dirty harry) and perforate it, lay it on the foil.  then just pour the solution on it.  just a thought - Duane


Duane

I am assuming you are talking about  potting the  earth battery in Map

I was   thinking more on the lines of  taking a finiched  earth battery  and  finding a  container that it fits into nicely

Then  desolving some  Map in  water .........putting the whole thing in the oven ........and keeping the coil covered with  Map   until  enough water desolves so that the whole thing  starts to get solid .


If  it doesn't  work ..........THEN ........it is time to get  dirty harry


gary

I was referring to Harold's problem with maintaining foil spacing.  A piece of organic like absorbant paper would provide accurate spacing.  The earth battery is interesting.  That makes me think of the tesla bifilial.  Since MAP seems to have such a high dielectric, I'm curious what would happen if it was compounded like plates in a car battery.  For example, the layers would be (in cross section for assembly) as follows:

================      MAP saturated TP or whatever
=============O      foil with a copper electrode attached along the edge
=============        MAP saturated TP or whatever
=============         foil

The foil pieces might be say 2-3" wide and 12" long or longer, same with the MAP saturated spacer.  The MAP saturated spacer might want to be a little wider/longer to prevent any accidental foil shorts.  The foil with the electrode might be a little longer to start the wrap on the electode.

Roll it up in a spiral like a jelly roll, be sure the foil and attached electrode didn't touch the other foil.  Heat/dry to crystalize.  Measure the potential from the electrode to the outer foil.  Is there any accumulation of potential??  This might be a test relevant to other piezo materials.  - Duane



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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2008, 05:34:23 PM »
one PS:, instead of the oven, try puting the wet crystal honey material in the refrigerator to initially form the crystals.  then into a just-warm oven to finish the dry.  At least with RS, the sooper-cooled honey crystalized quickly in the fridge when exposed to a magnetic field.

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2008, 08:17:24 PM »
Thanks for the ideas mdmiller
I will try the refrigerator.
Interesting, I was going to suggest the earth battery people try some map. around there earth batteries.
I've been planing to try some earth batteries as well this summer.

So far I'm getting the highest voltages from the thinest layers.
Maybe this is a key for these cells, using large area thin layers.
Could have something to do with frequency, I understand the thiner a crystal is
the higher the frequency it oscillates at, so very thin layers may even pick up high frequency radio waves.
Coating something like sand with a thin layer may get interesting effects.

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2008, 08:41:59 PM »
Thanks for the ideas mdmiller
I will try the refrigerator.
Interesting, I was going to suggest the earth battery people try some map. around there earth batteries.
I've been planing to try some earth batteries as well this summer.

So far I'm getting the highest voltages from the thinest layers.
Maybe this is a key for these cells, using large area thin layers.
Could have something to do with frequency, I understand the thiner a crystal is
the higher the frequency it oscillates at, so very thin layers may even pick up high frequency radio waves.
Coating something like sand with a thin layer may get interesting effects.


Harold

It is interesting that  you are getting higher  voltages  from   thinner layers.

If  you are right  and it  has something to do with  frequency ......then  the   voltage   is  probably not  galvanomic

My  focus with the  earth  batterys   is mostly on their non galvanomic output

In my opinion  if it is a galvanomic prosess  it is  just a battery ,,,,,even if  it lasts many  years .
If  it  is non galvanomic ........then it is  true  overunity ......and  may last a very long time .


gary

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2008, 05:37:26 AM »
I have been looking for a table of curie temperatures for the various piezoelectric materials,
but have not been able to locate one. I need to know what it is for MAP.
I found melting the stuff causes it to break down releasing phosphorus into the air.
It melts at about 200 deg C, so it should be safe to heat to it's curie temp.

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Re: HWL Cell
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2008, 08:33:44 AM »
I have been looking for a table of curie temperatures for the various piezoelectric materials,
but have not been able to locate one. I need to know what it is for MAP.
I found melting the stuff causes it to break down releasing phosphorus into the air.
It melts at about 200 deg C, so it should be safe to heat to it's curie temp.

AbbaRue

Have  you  tried  drying  it with out heat ?

I   read  on one site that   Map is one of the easiest  and  safest things   you  can  grow crystals  with .




Is Map  something that is   just not sold in  small quantities ?   

I have  found   places that  sell it by the pallet ........but  nothing  small


gary