It started well, but this homemade capacitor only worked once, then failed.
By Julian
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
Good morning all…
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
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Why don't more gels list their voltage ratting? Or its permittivity?
A lot diode will fix it but cost will fail
0.5 volt with a lot diode and step up
Hi Julian… an electrolyte implies a battery.. A capacitor needs an dielectric… something that separates the plates…. Very thin plastic, or anything which can increase the capacitance, which, diminishes with distance, 1/d^2. Good luck
Julian, you cheap substitutes for KY Jelly at your own risk.
I swear I don't mind watching ads to support people, but damn you YouTube I'm not watching one per fucking video. Done watching this on mobile.
I am shocked by your choice of electrolyte, why sunscreen and soap? Just for the viscosity of it? Interesting experiment nonetheless. Could that first capacitor still have been working but just quite leaky? The dmm would refuse to put any significant voltage on a leaky capacitor because the current is limited (I think, got no experience with those ryobis in particular).
the over-unity / free energy crowd will be flocking down to greggs to get flans now.
have you tried using Motor oil instead of cosmetic creams
….. Hey Jude, Don't make it bad, Take a sad capacitor, and make it better, Remember, to let the dielectric into your heart, then you can start, to make it better.
First time it probably worked until the cloth was soaked all the way through.
Hey are you sure the electrolyte is completely insolative? If it is conducting electricity, then you'd get to a specific ESR and then it would stop charging. Initially the electrolyte might not have been soaked through the cloth, as it soaked, it created an electrical connection.
The current is probably being dissipated as resistive heat in the electrolyte.
Came to me as I was watching this, that the magnets are too strong and causing a short between the plates, as the pull the two tins together. Try hooking the probes under the plastic clamps and I bet it is back to life once again!
too much electrolyte, so its become a resistor i think, very early capacitors had no electrolite, sometimes just airpace.
Julian haven't you made a crude battery?
That was the best "Good afternoon all" yet, I think 😀
While it'll be as far removed from electronics as you could hope to get, I'd love to see you bake something with those tart tins 😀 Jut for something completely different!
Unless you only have those two :O
make a capacitor from 2 2 pence pieces. just air gap it, use a contraption like a g clamp (plastic body) to vary the capacitance 🙂