The water hunt
So another Dutch friend of mine came over to England, and last Saturday and we decided to head out to "Swallow Springs" which is a natural spring near Marlborough.
So I'm going to cut a long story short... 150 mile round trip, lovely scenery.... dryed up completely....
At this point my dad had already cleaned out the cell ready for our eagerly anticipated spring water, so with nothing better to do, we decided to chuck in some shop bought highland spring, wow, talk about a different reaction... I mean, it didnt give us what we wanted, but crickey you can tell the difference when charging between rain and bottled water.
Now, my sister has her water provided to her from a deep well, so we decided to collect some of this this week. Brough it back down from Berks, poured it into the cell and watched... flicked on the switch... 6 amps! Holy shit.. what? Turned the cell off... "bugger" i thought, "the water must be contaminated"... So I dug out a couple of coffee filters to at least try and clean any general contaminates in it... poured it back in the cell and "6 amps"... bollocks ...bollocks ...bollocks!
Then of course I thought that its probably quite alakli and something in there is acting as an electrolyte, so I did a PH test and it came out dead on 7! Now, to get this type of water that has such high conductivity and such neutral PH is VERY hard to come by... I was chuffed!
I pulled out all the cabling, rigged up the 2 old battery chargers in series, and tried again... 670ma's! yes! I can charge my cell without fear for my life!
I think I came a little bit too hung up on amperage, I posted on our Joe Cell yahoo group and Bernie (joe cell experimentor in Aus) confirmed that I should just leave it as is, or in fact revert to 1 charger, as he put it (para-phrasing) "Think of the charging process as a certain amount of amp's per hour, if you have low amperage, just charge longer, just dont let it get hot!"...
....oops, our previous set up used to scorch the bloody, oh well, back to square one i guess. So we have the cell a very rough clean, dropped in some of my sister juice (man, that sounds SO wrong) and we had instant pulsation, the water in the anode was bobbing up and down like nobodies business!... it settled down after about 30 seconds, but I was obviously happy.
So today I've rushed out to buy some citric acid to partly passify the cells, I may even try soaking in coca-cola as phosphric acid is supposed to do the trick, and then in the next few days ill re-assemble the cell and start again with this good water.
By the way, sorry for lack of pictures, what we've done so far has been very poorly documented, hence this blog!
So I'm going to cut a long story short... 150 mile round trip, lovely scenery.... dryed up completely....
At this point my dad had already cleaned out the cell ready for our eagerly anticipated spring water, so with nothing better to do, we decided to chuck in some shop bought highland spring, wow, talk about a different reaction... I mean, it didnt give us what we wanted, but crickey you can tell the difference when charging between rain and bottled water.
Now, my sister has her water provided to her from a deep well, so we decided to collect some of this this week. Brough it back down from Berks, poured it into the cell and watched... flicked on the switch... 6 amps! Holy shit.. what? Turned the cell off... "bugger" i thought, "the water must be contaminated"... So I dug out a couple of coffee filters to at least try and clean any general contaminates in it... poured it back in the cell and "6 amps"... bollocks ...bollocks ...bollocks!
Then of course I thought that its probably quite alakli and something in there is acting as an electrolyte, so I did a PH test and it came out dead on 7! Now, to get this type of water that has such high conductivity and such neutral PH is VERY hard to come by... I was chuffed!
I pulled out all the cabling, rigged up the 2 old battery chargers in series, and tried again... 670ma's! yes! I can charge my cell without fear for my life!
I think I came a little bit too hung up on amperage, I posted on our Joe Cell yahoo group and Bernie (joe cell experimentor in Aus) confirmed that I should just leave it as is, or in fact revert to 1 charger, as he put it (para-phrasing) "Think of the charging process as a certain amount of amp's per hour, if you have low amperage, just charge longer, just dont let it get hot!"...
....oops, our previous set up used to scorch the bloody, oh well, back to square one i guess. So we have the cell a very rough clean, dropped in some of my sister juice (man, that sounds SO wrong) and we had instant pulsation, the water in the anode was bobbing up and down like nobodies business!... it settled down after about 30 seconds, but I was obviously happy.
So today I've rushed out to buy some citric acid to partly passify the cells, I may even try soaking in coca-cola as phosphric acid is supposed to do the trick, and then in the next few days ill re-assemble the cell and start again with this good water.
By the way, sorry for lack of pictures, what we've done so far has been very poorly documented, hence this blog!
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