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  • Date Created: 2 Apr 2018 7:01 PM Date Created
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It is only general idea to create low power device with salt water cell as power supply. Here is example of salt water cell. It is made from:

- two glass containers,

- two copper electrodes,

- two silver electrodes.

Voltage generates by this two cell is around 1.5 volt. Here is example image:

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I am thinking if it is possible to use this cell as power supply to electronic device like simple egg timer. Please comment below what you think about that.

 

Update:

It looks like that in current form salt water cell is able to generate voltage around 1.7 volt and current around 4-5 uA. As was mentioned in comments most important think is proper material and shape of electrodes. Here is video from quick test:

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  • DAB
    DAB over 7 years ago +4
    Interesting Idea. I was thinking of using salt water waste from a water softener purge to collect the current. If you want to pursue this idea, you need to put your cell under a load and see how much current…
  • genebren
    genebren over 7 years ago +3
    Salt water cells are cool ideas to help spark interest in students. I used to supplement my lesson plans in a technical school setting with little experiments to help get students poor interested in electronics…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 7 years ago +3
    If you mix salt water with fresh water it is possible to extract energy (without consuming metal electrodes) - Google "salination energy" MK
  • clem57
    clem57 over 5 years ago

    I just say an article about IBM usibg salt as a battery. Maybe it is based on this experiment.

    Clem

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    DAB over 7 years ago in reply to kk99

    You have to keep the water moving.

     

    If you just have a pool of water, the electrodes pull all of the charge carriers away from the atoms touching the electrodes so you have to keep bringing new atoms in contact with the electrode surface.

     

     

     

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    kk99 over 7 years ago

    I have changed electrodes to carbon one's.

    But still it is no enough to power supply MCU. Here is example of start atmega328 with 128 kHz clock circuit with simple LED blink program. This salt water cell allow to supply this circuit for the while.

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    riponnipa over 7 years ago

    Dear Friend,

     

    This is great.....

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    kk99 over 7 years ago

    Yes, it looks like that usage of proper material for electrodes and their shape is one of important thing to get good results from this type of salt water cell.

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