Hi, I'm new here and I'm not sure where I should put this. I think this is in the wrong place, so maybe a moderator can move it to the right place.
So i was tinkering around last night with a couple of magnet batteries I slapped together. A magnet battery, as you know, is just a magnet and a metal piece with a wet piece of paper in between.
I'm using neodymium magnets from
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/6YA39, simple notebook paper, bits of punch-press metal pieces, a GTD-200A multimeter, alligator clips from Radio Shack, and water.
(http://nerp.net/~benb/magnet_battery/1a.jpg)
Here I am testing the first magnet battery which reads 0.56 DC volts:
(http://nerp.net/~benb/magnet_battery/2.jpg)
Here I am testing the second magnet battery which reads 0.53 DC volts:
(http://nerp.net/~benb/magnet_battery/3.jpg)
Here I have connected the magnet-side of one battery to the keeper-side of the other with an alligator clip. The combined DC voltage now reads 1.13 DC volts:
(http://nerp.net/~benb/magnet_battery/4.jpg)
The voltage keeps climbing. After about 5 minutes it's up to 1.29 DC volts:
(http://nerp.net/~benb/magnet_battery/6.jpg)
Anyway, I'm gonna go test some other things. Hopefully someone can use this.