Woah I've been off this channel for a little while now, and I'm very impressed how fast your channel has grown last I knew, you were celebrating over 10k subs! Congratulations! You deserve it.
Since I got a soldering kit for Christmas, I thought about making a homemade solar array from the solar panels from solar calculators. I'd really like to see you do something of the sort too.
Lots of solar panel calculators have fake solar panels, plus the real ones are very inefficient and low quality. Please instead buy dedicated solar cells.
Solar panels from calculators are made for low light conditions like inside a house. Not for direct sunlight I would recommend buying some 5×5 solar panels online instead.
Will cost a lot and won't be efficient at all, but it's probably a good idea if you want to learn a little about soldiering... Probably will be better to buy a diy kit or to create something easy like a charger with a dc-dc converter Or maybe a micro flashlight with supercapacitors
I'm hoping by the time I have kids, your channel and understanding is what they are learning from. You have great potential, and I love your dedication.
Hey man, thanks for this great clip. My son replicated it to show it to a bunch of classmates in elementary school and they all loved it. So honestly made, among so much wasteful and fraudulent similar content on RUclips
I liked that you showed that light of different wavelengths have different voltage potentials, as opposed to just sitting it in the sunlight as saying "lookie-there"
Huge magnifying glass to heat the top of the solar panel, and water to cool the bottom. With thermal Si and make a low power heat element too, it must be touching the solar panel away from negative. When it is done see if having the heating of the si panel is worth putting on every solar panel, with or without the extra heat element.
I was actually interested in making a hand crank car battery starter with a capacitor bank and a few LEDs to show the capacitors are charged to full and maybe a few resistors to bleed off the extra charge between capacitors. Can you something like this to your fan it would be great. Thanks
I uses electrolysis to do this with a 120v d.c. source and a 12 gage copper wire as the electrodes and was able to use an incandescent warm white light to dimly light two water clear red LEDs using my body capacitance as ground I guess. The ground on the wall socket works the same. I haven't been able to do it with a 6×2 copper plate nor get the sun to light the LEDs with either. Couldn't a series and parallel array get much better results? Or would one giant panel do more work?
Many, many years ago I made a solar cell from a selenium rectifier and aluminum foil. Selenium rectifiers were used in very old vacuum tube televisions.
If you exposed this to sunlight with no connected load and then moved it out of sunlight and connected a load would it power the load briefly? If yes, would increasing the amount of electrolyte increase the stored energy capacity?
How do we know its producing electric energy from the solar energy, and not acting as just a solar-controlled battery? Maybe the chemical reaction between the plates and the electrolyte form a battery that is only active when light hits it, as if its a battery with a photodiode in series.
Can you make a sunlight powered light bulb by concentrating sunlight by a concave mirror then passing this light through optical fibre cable to a glass bulb where if you can somehow scatter that concentrated beam of light . I can send you a diagram of what I mean if you're interested in it . Thank you !
Could you calculate the energy that your solar panel generates (and thus its efficiency) based on the inductance of your meter and the rate at which the current builds up in it? I would attempt to do this using the footage alone, but I don't know the inductance of your meter.
How would the current change if you decrease the distance between plates ? In the lead acid batteries for example, the plates are literally pressed into each other having separator between them, would a porous separator wet with NaOh electrolyte & two plates squeezed on it make a different amount of current? Please make a video on it, with different electrolytes, possibly one with Copper oxide powder added into electrolyte...... please!
I have a question, if you used the solar panel and combined it with an ion thruster, but not using copper. Instead using tungsten, amplified the e- field using parallel capacitors. Get a drone made of carbon fiber, could you theoretically create a self sustaining RC drone that would never need batteries?
What would happen if you used silicon dioxide powder mixed with cupuric oxide powder as a pure panel held together with conductive glue. Use a plastic compartment with a copper floor. Or combine several materials with different absorption spectrums.... Might make a great second project
I would think that using an arduino to control a tracking unit for solar cells is a bit over-engineering. I could do it with a couple of 4093's and a few 2n2222's. I know the arduino is quite a capable unit, but old school chips and transistors do the job very well and are quite easy to use with no programming needed.
Hey greetings from france, when i was 16 i have had the same pen than u many souvenirs with it ^^ love your videos keep going dude : la science dépasse les frontières
Why not make a bunch of smaller versions of this and wire them up together and see how much power you could get out of it. Also would the efficiency increase or decrease with the smaller builds?
The change when light was taken away as too fast, also, the difference from being inside ( where it is warm ) and outside ( where it is winter ) had an effect of producing more outside due to the light, so although it is possible that there may be a slight boost from the pelitare ( sorry I know I spelled that wrong :P ) effect, it is minuscule when compared to what visible light was producing.
hey i have one question my zvs driver is not working too well i have hv ( around 25kv at 9volts and 7amps) but i dont have plasma like you had and it heats up very fast and if i go over 9 v it stops working and it heats up a lot do you konw what it could be or anybody else
I don't know if it is possible (that's why i'm asking) but could you try to measure the maximum voltage and/or ampere when used as an diode(if possible)
Many high school students may have split the water molecule by applying 12 VDC to two separate metalic plates imerssed in a glass with water. If we apply resonance to this setup by adding a pulsating solid state circuit with Voltage and frequency control (0-50 VDC, 0-100MHz), we should be able to optimize the efficiency of the process to a point where the input energy is lower than the output. This is not theory, it has already been done and patented: ruclips.net/video/1db-UqlBa8M/видео.html&t=1h26m8s
my favorite part is when you prove the concept by blocking the sunlight. pure science, no bull. good stuff.
That was great, I love that he showed it actually working
Man you've matured a lot since I started watching. Sponsorships and everything, that's awesome dude, I am so glad you're being recognized!
Thank you for making these videos, still one of a few channels that put real science in. Keep up the good work!
James Thompson true man
Woah I've been off this channel for a little while now, and I'm very impressed how fast your channel has grown last I knew, you were celebrating over 10k subs! Congratulations! You deserve it.
Hey I like that green Einstein in the background, it's pretty.
Since I got a soldering kit for Christmas, I thought about making a homemade solar array from the solar panels from solar calculators. I'd really like to see you do something of the sort too.
Truly Infamous thats a great idea hope he does
Lots of solar panel calculators have fake solar panels, plus the real ones are very inefficient and low quality. Please instead buy dedicated solar cells.
Solar panels from calculators are made for low light conditions like inside a house.
Not for direct sunlight I would recommend buying some 5×5 solar panels online instead.
Will cost a lot and won't be efficient at all, but it's probably a good idea if you want to learn a little about soldiering...
Probably will be better to buy a diy kit or to create something easy like a charger with a dc-dc converter
Or maybe a micro flashlight with supercapacitors
If that doesnt work, try udeing standard leds. They have the same effect, and are actually not so bad
I like the idea of the arduino solar tracker. Maybe you could make a renewable energy series.
Oliver Marvin have your post get a 100 likes!
Great video Nate! I've always wondered how panels work
Thanks! :)
and as great as our tech is we only get 20% of the energy
Are you gonna post? Please don’t quit RUclips, you are like the best RUclipsr ever!!!
I like how this man never tells you to not do any of his experiments at home
I'm hoping by the time I have kids, your channel and understanding is what they are learning from. You have great potential, and I love your dedication.
Thanks :) Just brought back my memories, when I was in class 7th I did this during the holidays 😅
I get so happy when a new video is out!
Hey man, thanks for this great clip. My son replicated it to show it to a bunch of classmates in elementary school and they all loved it. So honestly made, among so much wasteful and fraudulent similar content on RUclips
now you can possibly make a homemade transistors now
Great stuff! Something I've not seen before. Really enjoying your content these days.
I liked that you showed that light of different wavelengths have different voltage potentials, as opposed to just sitting it in the sunlight as saying "lookie-there"
Thank u for making these videos our school textbooks are useless and these r just perfect
Best channel I've found on RUclips you've taught me a lot
Very informational, well done!
I love your channel and your videos. I see you gaining very many subscribers in the future
Huge magnifying glass to heat the top of the solar panel, and water to cool the bottom. With thermal Si and make a low power heat element too, it must be touching the solar panel away from negative. When it is done see if having the heating of the si panel is worth putting on every solar panel, with or without the extra heat element.
build buy and master solar electric panels get less and less effective as they get hot.
Thanks bro because of your levitation video I won my college circuit designing completion.you having a awesome collection of projects.
Please never stop making videos.
Do you think you could do an in depth instruction video on how to make a nixie watch?
I was actually interested in making a hand crank car battery starter with a capacitor bank and a few LEDs to show the capacitors are charged to full and maybe a few resistors to bleed off the extra charge between capacitors. Can you something like this to your fan it would be great. Thanks
very brilliant i love this channel, it brings out and does real science
Thank you very much for all your interesting videos.
I uses electrolysis to do this with a 120v d.c. source and a 12 gage copper wire as the electrodes and was able to use an incandescent warm white light to dimly light two water clear red LEDs using my body capacitance as ground I guess. The ground on the wall socket works the same. I haven't been able to do it with a 6×2 copper plate nor get the sun to light the LEDs with either. Couldn't a series and parallel array get much better results? Or would one giant panel do more work?
Why do you need an electrolyte? What’s inside conventional solar cells? I doubt that there’s a liquid in it
So using this method and one square meter you could use it as a uv exposure sensor?
Dude all your videos are awesome thank you!
You are gifted in explaining)
Keystone Science thanks for your awesome video
Many, many years ago I made a solar cell from a selenium rectifier and aluminum foil. Selenium rectifiers were used in very old vacuum tube televisions.
You totally already have science teacher writing hahaha
I happen to have noticed the tesla coil in the corner. Is there any chance of you converting it to a audio modulated tesla coil in the future?
Hey, Cody!Where should I go to learn more about how electronics and schematics work?
So if u have used the correct semi conductor that your solar panel would have been alot better?
If you exposed this to sunlight with no connected load and then moved it out of sunlight and connected a load would it power the load briefly?
If yes, would increasing the amount of electrolyte increase the stored energy capacity?
Ooo can you make a battery out of random things found around (like in the trash). Kind of like a apocolypes style battery? That would be awesome
what happens when sand is tased or electrocuted or mixed with lightning and can u make retro reflection panels for stealth
Amazing! :)
I love your videos. Thank you, and keep it up.
This was one your better videos in my opinion.
Super! Thank you very much!
Now lets see some alphavoltaic and betavoltaic cells.
Mr. Chang YES!
How do we know its producing electric energy from the solar energy, and not acting as just a solar-controlled battery? Maybe the chemical reaction between the plates and the electrolyte form a battery that is only active when light hits it, as if its a battery with a photodiode in series.
Can you make a sunlight powered light bulb by concentrating sunlight by a concave mirror then passing this light through optical fibre cable to a glass bulb where if you can somehow scatter that concentrated beam of light . I can send you a diagram of what I mean if you're interested in it . Thank you !
Could you calculate the energy that your solar panel generates (and thus its efficiency) based on the inductance of your meter and the rate at which the current builds up in it?
I would attempt to do this using the footage alone, but I don't know the inductance of your meter.
How would the current change if you decrease the distance between plates ? In the lead acid batteries for example, the plates are literally pressed into each other having separator between them, would a porous separator wet with NaOh electrolyte & two plates squeezed on it make a different amount of current? Please make a video on it, with different electrolytes, possibly one with Copper oxide powder added into electrolyte...... please!
While making a ZVS driver is it safe to use IRFZ44N instead of IRFP260N?
Would it be possible to achieve an even distribution of cuprous oxide using ferric chloride?
7:42 why did you add nm (nanometers) to the 254*10ˆ-9 ? wouldn't it just be m (meters) then?
Haha yeah :P
That's how to calculate it in meters yes
Can you do a video explaining logic gates and how to build a computer?
could you test how long the panel lasts ie its degradation after many hours in sunlight
I have a question, if you used the solar panel and combined it with an ion thruster, but not using copper. Instead using tungsten, amplified the e- field using parallel capacitors. Get a drone made of carbon fiber, could you theoretically create a self sustaining RC drone that would never need batteries?
Wow that copper plate looks amazing once it's off the burner.
What would happen if you used silicon dioxide powder mixed with cupuric oxide powder as a pure panel held together with conductive glue. Use a plastic compartment with a copper floor.
Or combine several materials with different absorption spectrums....
Might make a great second project
If you listen to the Soviet amateur physics textbook. There it was recommended to oxidize the copper plate in the oven
Can you use gamma rays to make solar panels work and wouldn't that make more electrical voltage or current.
I would think that using an arduino to control a tracking unit for solar cells is a bit over-engineering. I could do it with a couple of 4093's and a few 2n2222's. I know the arduino is quite a capable unit, but old school chips and transistors do the job very well and are quite easy to use with no programming needed.
That was - especially nice!
Great video as ever. How about using an amplifier circuit to use your home-made solar panel to make a light activated device?
Hey greetings from france, when i was 16 i have had the same pen than u many souvenirs with it ^^ love your videos keep going dude : la science dépasse les frontières
Nice video! What about building a small solar power kit that could power charging a cell phone?
Really nice! :)
I have forever wanted to know how to make one of these special solar panels
What voltage did it produce?
Armchair Pilot maybe enough for a lightbulb?
Armchair Pilot those efficient neon ones
Why not make a bunch of smaller versions of this and wire them up together and see how much power you could get out of it. Also would the efficiency increase or decrease with the smaller builds?
How do you now its not the temp difference of the plates that generate the current?
The change when light was taken away as too fast, also, the difference from being inside ( where it is warm ) and outside ( where it is winter ) had an effect of producing more outside due to the light, so although it is possible that there may be a slight boost from the pelitare ( sorry I know I spelled that wrong :P ) effect, it is minuscule when compared to what visible light was producing.
Oh, man. That's wicked.
What about using microbs to emulate energy. Look at UBC Canada and solor inovation .
wouldn't a toaster oven set up like a DIY reflow oven give you a more consistant result for producing cuprous oxide?
You should make a solar panel using black piping and water, then use the water to run into a heat sink and use peltier tiles to create the electricity
Uhh a Parker vector. I do appreciate a man with style 👍
hey i have one question my zvs driver is not working too well i have hv ( around 25kv at 9volts and 7amps) but i dont have plasma like you had and it heats up very fast and if i go over 9 v it stops working and it heats up a lot do you konw what it could be or anybody else
I don't know if it is possible (that's why i'm asking) but could you try to measure the maximum voltage and/or ampere when used as an diode(if possible)
That is Bequerel first found photovoltaic effect.
You should do a video on logic circuit projects.
he’s all grown up now but sounds the same it’s awesome
Where did you learn all of this stuff? I’d love to learn too! And on a scale of 1 to 10, how hard would you say it is?
I've wanted to know how to make one for a while 😀
Will it radiate uv when u power it ?
Have you ever made a device scanner bro?
You should do an episode on railguns I am trying to build one and would love to learn more
Have you ever considered making a wind turbine? That would be pretty nifty to see.
You should make a charge controller or a voltage regulator for that flexible solar panel.
Can u make a homemade led?
Yeah, that'd be cool.
Can you do a video on making a high voltage boost converter? That would be cool
Many high school students may have split the water molecule by applying 12 VDC
to two separate metalic plates imerssed in a glass with water. If we apply resonance
to this setup by adding a pulsating solid state circuit with Voltage and frequency
control (0-50 VDC, 0-100MHz), we should be able to optimize the efficiency of the process
to a point where the input energy is lower than the output. This is not theory, it has
already been done and patented:
ruclips.net/video/1db-UqlBa8M/видео.html&t=1h26m8s
electrolysis might work for a better clean result than heating it.Try making it into individual units
How about Ulta Violet panels???
Archiving this video for the apocalypse. Thanks!
yo dude where have u been? haven't seen a vid of yours in a long time
Foot candles..? I'm a fan but I'm also a fan of SI Units.
Are you actually making a Fusion Reactor with Cody??
yep :)
Cool. Where did u go bro? We need your knowledge 😢❤
But can I put it on my drive way and use the energy to melt the snow?
7:43 it's 258×10^-9 m (not nm)
Otherwise brillant ideas thank's !