Make your own energy, Grow your own food – plus science and tech stuff
This is a public record of my personal battery tests. I welcome your input and ideas. So far, I am having some luck with reviving batteries by surging and freezing.
Updated Jul-13-2010
Continue reading ‘Revive Our Rechargeable Batteries – Surge, Freeze, and Exercise’ »
Updated Jul-19-2010
How to change the batteries on Spykee, the robot.
Spykee came back to life when attached to a 12V portable battery.
Continue reading ‘Repairing and Replacing Batteries on a Spykee Robot’ »
This little girl says the funniest things.
From the summer of 2008 when I started to get serious about solar panels.
The original video shows a group of experimenters from Canada that are making Hydrogen in the form of HHO using electrolysis. Something goes terribly wrong.
Continue reading ‘Bubble Thing – HHO Fuel Cell Explosion Remix’ »
This post documents the steps to mount a 120W solar panel to a pole.
Why would you want to know your latitude? If you have solar panels, you can use your latitude to know how much to tilt your solar panel to absorb the most direct sunlight.
Lock up your solar panels to prevent theft
Made a quick rocket stove with bricks. Put a Peltier cooler on the back and got a fire going. Measured the current, volts, and watts produced from a single Peltier cooler. A cooling fan and aluminum heatsink with a 12V portable battery helped.
Peltier Cooler (also called TEC or Thermo Electric Cooler) - resting against a hot brick
Video of experiment…
A 12V battery is getting low and needs some wind to charge up. The wind turbine outside faithfully stands watch high above the ground, waiting for a chance to spin in the wind.
