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[TR Custom Parts]

Getting ready to disconnect my house from the meter. This new battery my son came up with for his science project will make the electric companies useless.

This lemon battery or as he calls it "The Lattery" has been powering a digital clock for 3 days now. Figure if we get a delivery of about 35 million lemons we will be able to power the house and have plenty of lemonade too.

 

[87grandnat]

Pretty smart kid! when I was his age I didnt even know what a lemon was, let alone how to make it power a clock!

You must be proud!
Joshua

 

[GNVYUS 1]

Alright, move over E85, L85 is the future.

 

[turbo buicks]

Pretty smart kid! when I was his age I didnt even know what a lemon was, let alone how to make it power a clock!

You must be proud!
Joshua

that kid looks to be around 8 - 10 years old. u mean to tell me at this age you didnt know what a lemon was?

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Actually he is 11. Looks young for his age just like his Dad. Found the experiment on PBS kids website and took it from there. Have to admit I did the soldering on the wires to get the connections to be reliable. He "we" better get an A on this project.:smile: Damn thing is still going this morning. Going to see how long it is going to work.:smile: Will have to move it outside though as I think the fruit flies are ready to move in as the lemons are looking pretty bad.

 

[SGRIM]

Cool deal!

 

[fitz3820]

Hey Mark,

As a backup, he can use Coke too. Cheap at under $1 for 2 liters:smile:

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I wonder what coke with lemon would do...

 

[ijames]

The lemon juice and/or coke is the electrolyte and has a very small effect on the output voltage. Pretty much any solution that will conduct electricity will work as a demonstration (but you will get small differences and obviously some will last longer than others), such as battery acid, fruit such as watermelon, lemon, apple, salt water, etc. The main thing is the dissimilar metals that the electrodes are made of, copper and iron in this case. Should get about .9 volts per cell. Assuming you are using new pennies it would be interesting to sand off the thin copper layer on each face to expose the zinc and see what that does to the voltage (and then explain it, for extra credit on the science project ).