*If you add a tiny trace of Manganese-Chloride your voltage will jump up to 2.84 Volts (0.72V for Mn plus 0.67V for Cl) This is called an "Over-Voltage-Donor". You should know this by now.*
Thanks. Looks simple and safe to work with . I hope to scale this up for solar storage . I want a simple battery that can be maintained and repaired for many years . This may do the job.
Nice battery build...thanks for sharing. Nice to see your daughter's interest in your batteries because neither of my daughters have shown even the slightest interest in my batteries....my daughters are teenagers and so if it's not tiktok or whatsapp or shopping, they're unlikely to show any interest at all 😆. Keep up the good work.
The power density is related to the amount and concentration of electrolyte. Because When you charge you will form iodine and zinc and when you discharge you will get Zinc iodide. Make more concentrated electrolyte for more energy.
@@cayrex , this is the reason such battery can't be used. When charging it releases Iodine which is a gas less soluble in water. Therefore on discharge only soluble iodine create sal, implies flow of electrons. Anyways nice attempt.
Great video. Not sure why 8g of KI and 14g of ZnSO4. The molecular weight of both is similar, 166 and 161. Molecular weight of ZnI2 is 319. So using 8g of KI will only react with ~3.87g of ZnSO4, rest is waste, but you will make 7.6g of ZnI2 which is a 2 mol solution in 50mls. Question, why so much ZnSO4? Or is it just want to make sure all Iodine is converted? Im going to try to make this, thank you.
Good question,... at begining I was thinking that I will get similar question a bit earlier. The reason that I add more ZnSO4 was that the remaining ZnSO4 act like extra support electrolyte,.... ZnI2 + ZnSO4. Because if I add KI and ZnSO4 1:1 then I get only ZnI2 and K2SO4 and when the battery is charging the electrolyte will lose the most of ionic conductivity. The extra ZnSO4 will help with the better conductivity of the elctrolyte.
@cayrex yes, I get that, as I've just put the battery together, I get iodine at the cathode but zero voltage lol. Just dumped a load of ZnSO4 in and let it rest. May completely restart again. All part of the fun.
@cayrex lol, I was using a metal lid 🤣🤣🤣. I'm an idiot 🤣. Works fine, self discharging fairly quick for me. Will play around with a few other battery types. I want to build a simple battery, rechargeable, and scaleable and can do thousands of cycles, for a home battery bank. That's the plan. Any thoughts welcome.
@@DrBretPalmer Oh, that makes sense, hahaha. Progress is made by small steps. Do you use sand? Because my cell with sand have the 1.2V after 2 month,... but the cell dry out.
Have you tested and recorded the results of different concentrations of zinc and iodine? I'm looking to build a bunch of these, and I want to get them right. Zinc sulfate, zinc chloride, and iodine/potassium iodide are difficult for me to come by, locally. So, I haven't been able to test any of this myself yet. Zinc sulfate used to be sold where I live as moss killer, but now they only sell ferric sulfate. What sort of energy storage does this unit have? I see from the newer video that the self-discharge was quite good, at least for a little while. Any advice you can give would be much appreciated!
Hello! Sorry for late reply. Huh, you have limited choice of materials then!? You will need zinc sulfate or zinc chloride and something that have iodine. The zinc - iodine have around 50 to 70 wh/kg which is better that lead acid, vanadium flow, nickel iron batteries. I will make more videos that can help you to make a cells.
@@cayrex Is it possible that such zinc iodine sand type battery can be used for solar energy storage purposes? Is it possible to cale up such battery configuration for example 1m3 electrolyte/sand volume with multiple carbon rod electrode pair configuration?
@@GintsVideo Yes of course. I mean all batteries or better to say everything is possible to scale up to the desired extent. For more power and capacity you need biger cells and for more voltage you need many cells. And then you put the batteries like lego bricks together.
Great vedio thank you for sharing, there is the idea of making concrete as medium to store energy in buildings do you think it is by using some sort of electrolyte ? ,knowing that there is hollow type of conc. called "no fine conc. "
Can you make a really big battery if your getting 1.45 volts then several with a dc to dc converter should boost to 12volts but need large storage.then use a wire 200ft long up 30 ft in the air well insolated at the supports like rubber or glass with Teflon rapping this should deliver 1,000 volts at low amps try changing it this way runs 24/7/365
I have the zinc on order now and can't wait for it to arrive! Fantastic video, thank you and Mia for sharing!
Thank you. Great idea to have some zinc at home. Good source of zinc is also zinc carbon battery
You also need zinc, Iodine crystals + A little water to make zinc iodine at home.
*If you add a tiny trace of Manganese-Chloride your voltage will jump up to 2.84 Volts (0.72V for Mn plus 0.67V for Cl) This is called an "Over-Voltage-Donor". You should know this by now.*
Thanks. Looks simple and safe to work with . I hope to scale this up for solar storage . I want a simple battery that can be maintained and repaired for many years . This may do the job.
Yes for sure
Nice battery build...thanks for sharing. Nice to see your daughter's interest in your batteries because neither of my daughters have shown even the slightest interest in my batteries....my daughters are teenagers and so if it's not tiktok or whatsapp or shopping, they're unlikely to show any interest at all 😆. Keep up the good work.
Hahaha yea, for now have the interest. But lets see when she get older 😅. Hoping that she will like the electrochemistry and youtube in the future 🤔😆
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Its interesting you can use compounds to make the zinc iodine battery . I assume it is less power dense than just iodine and zinc ?
The power density is related to the amount and concentration of electrolyte. Because When you charge you will form iodine and zinc and when you discharge you will get Zinc iodide. Make more concentrated electrolyte for more energy.
@@cayrex , this is the reason such battery can't be used. When charging it releases Iodine which is a gas less soluble in water. Therefore on discharge only soluble iodine create sal, implies flow of electrons.
Anyways nice attempt.
@@apyogapaartiban looks to be working to me.
@@apyogapaartibaniodine is a solid or gas. Solid at room temperature that can sublimate. Keep pressure and it will stay solid
Great video.
Not sure why 8g of KI and 14g of ZnSO4. The molecular weight of both is similar, 166 and 161. Molecular weight of ZnI2 is 319. So using 8g of KI will only react with ~3.87g of ZnSO4, rest is waste, but you will make 7.6g of ZnI2 which is a 2 mol solution in 50mls. Question, why so much ZnSO4? Or is it just want to make sure all Iodine is converted?
Im going to try to make this, thank you.
Good question,... at begining I was thinking that I will get similar question a bit earlier. The reason that I add more ZnSO4 was that the remaining ZnSO4 act like extra support electrolyte,.... ZnI2 + ZnSO4. Because if I add KI and ZnSO4 1:1 then I get only ZnI2 and K2SO4 and when the battery is charging the electrolyte will lose the most of ionic conductivity. The extra ZnSO4 will help with the better conductivity of the elctrolyte.
@cayrex yes, I get that, as I've just put the battery together, I get iodine at the cathode but zero voltage lol. Just dumped a load of ZnSO4 in and let it rest.
May completely restart again. All part of the fun.
@@DrBretPalmer hehehe yes right. But interesting that you get 0 volts
@cayrex lol, I was using a metal lid 🤣🤣🤣. I'm an idiot 🤣.
Works fine, self discharging fairly quick for me. Will play around with a few other battery types. I want to build a simple battery, rechargeable, and scaleable and can do thousands of cycles, for a home battery bank. That's the plan. Any thoughts welcome.
@@DrBretPalmer Oh, that makes sense, hahaha. Progress is made by small steps. Do you use sand? Because my cell with sand have the 1.2V after 2 month,... but the cell dry out.
Thanks Cayrex. Great idea. :)
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Have you tested and recorded the results of different concentrations of zinc and iodine? I'm looking to build a bunch of these, and I want to get them right. Zinc sulfate, zinc chloride, and iodine/potassium iodide are difficult for me to come by, locally. So, I haven't been able to test any of this myself yet. Zinc sulfate used to be sold where I live as moss killer, but now they only sell ferric sulfate.
What sort of energy storage does this unit have? I see from the newer video that the self-discharge was quite good, at least for a little while. Any advice you can give would be much appreciated!
Hello! Sorry for late reply. Huh, you have limited choice of materials then!? You will need zinc sulfate or zinc chloride and something that have iodine. The zinc - iodine have around 50 to 70 wh/kg which is better that lead acid, vanadium flow, nickel iron batteries. I will make more videos that can help you to make a cells.
This is a great video, thank you so much for this. I learned so much from this.
Thank you
Hello. Thank you for your video. How many life cycles you expected for such zink iodine battery?
1000 cycles for sure. With my better cell I get to 3000 cycles
@@cayrex Is it possible that such zinc iodine sand type battery can be used for solar energy storage purposes? Is it possible to cale up such battery configuration for example 1m3 electrolyte/sand volume with multiple carbon rod electrode pair configuration?
@@GintsVideo Yes of course. I mean all batteries or better to say everything is possible to scale up to the desired extent. For more power and capacity you need biger cells and for more voltage you need many cells. And then you put the batteries like lego bricks together.
@@cayrex Thank you for your reply. What ph is for the ZnI electrolyte?
@@GintsVideo 5
Great vedio thank you for sharing, there is the idea of making concrete as medium to store energy in buildings do you think it is by using some sort of electrolyte ? ,knowing that there is hollow type of conc. called "no fine conc. "
Ah, you mean the concreate battery? They use KOH and something in the concreate electrolyte/separator.
@@cayrex thank you for the tip
Can you make a really big battery if your getting 1.45 volts then several with a dc to dc converter should boost to 12volts but need large storage.then use a wire 200ft long up 30 ft in the air well insolated at the supports like rubber or glass with Teflon rapping this should deliver 1,000 volts at low amps try changing it this way runs 24/7/365
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Thank you. All the best also to you
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I don't understand his accented English.
Really? Sorry to hear this. RUclips have some automatic subtitles which can help you. On top right corrner you have a CC icon.
@@cayrex still… it is somewhat unclear whether you use Zink Sulphate or Zink Sulphide or Zink Sulfite ?
@@SolarReannex The most common electrolyte for rechatgeable zinc based batteries ZnSO4