How many times has the lack of fire or lack of teeth killed you or someone you love in the wild?
Do you dream of successfully following in Captain Sir John Franklin’s footsteps?
Then let science be your sextant: learn how to make a battery and avoid scurvy with nothing more than a lemon, copper clips, zinc nails, wire, and steel wool! Watch the video below to find out how.
Electricity is generated through oxidation-reduction, a chemical reaction that occurs when the zinc dissolves into the acid; the lemon itself doesn’t generate electricity, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have your own lemon party!
Com: Daniel davis : Since it's one cell (lemon), he's actually shorting the terminals.
All of the copper count as ONE terminal, and all of the zinc count as one terminal.
You could get more amperage by wiring all of the sides together, but to get voltage, you have to isolate one pair of electrodes from all of the others.
He's doing something else behind the scenes, like a hidden commercial battery. His multi-electrode battery design is bunk.
If what I'm saying sounds stupid, then test it for yourself. You want 2-3 volts for an LED, and 1-20 miliamps depending on the LED.
Or, if you have a digital multimeter, it will show the voltage.
