Originally posted by ibpointless2
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First, thanks ibpointless for the response
good to know that i am at least looking in the right direction.
I am wondering if the small amount of iron in the cell mix isn't what's lowering the internal resistance.
I took a time lapse video of my cell shorted out on both meters for the past 8 hours. it starts at about 4mV and 1mA, rises to a little bit over 10mV @ 2.5mA, then steadily drops back down to 5mV @ 1.5mA where one of my meters battery died (too funny, right?
, my cell outlasted the meters 9V battery) I am quite sure it would have kept dropping, as it seems to settle in at around 2.4mV and I haven't seen it drop lower than that at any time.It definately seems like this is using up the water, in my tests last night, if I added water, the voltage and amps would very briefly spike up, then very quickly drop back down. once it looked as if it was settling, it would very slowly start to climb back up, peak at 10mV then slowly drop back down again. I have repeated this cycle twice now, and had the same results both times.
This sucker wont run an oscillator, at least none of them I have built yet, so nothing good to report there, but at least i am getting the same results with this thing over and over.
Next step is to make one without the iron in it, and see if that doesn't help the voltage output. My first goal is just to make one that will run an oscillator, after that, we will see where this goes

If I find anything else that might be useful, I will be sure to share
thanks
N8
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