You need two different kinds of metal. Of the kinds that are easy to get and not too toxic, zink and copper work the best. It's not the potato that generates the electricity, it's the small amount of acid in there. A citrus fruit works better and a lemon the best. You just stick the metal pieces into the potato, or lemon, and connect wires to them. I think a lemon will give you about a volt. I don't know how much you can get from a potato.
Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert J. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 5:10 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] avoiding electrical shock About potatos. I have always heard about taking out broken light bulbs with potatos and I have even done it my self and it works great. Now I have a question about potatos in particular. I have heard that you can power a very small light or some thing by hooking it up some how to a potato. I don't know if you hook one lead to the potato and one to a glass of water or one to the potato and the other to a metal ground or how that works. Can any one address this little bit of trivia? Second if a potato has some type of charge how does that fit into the equation when handling the potential of a live circuit? -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:24 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] avoiding electrical shock A potato will probably comply with instructions more readily that is true! Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net> Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rj" < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:rjf1%40velocity.net> > To: < blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] avoiding electrical shock > Isn't it a lot simpler to just use a potato? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dale Leavens > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:45 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] avoiding electrical shock > > > Clifford, > > An addendum to #8: > > Regardless of complaints of sensations, instruct spouse or significant > other > to remove residual bulb detritus by rotating it counter clockwise. IF she > is > experiencing difficulties in comprehension try the instruction "Lefty > Loosy". > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net> > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "clifford" < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:clifford%40tds.net> > > To: < blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:23 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] avoiding electrical shock > > > Dear David: > > One fairly safe way to check for the presence of electrical voltage, > > before working on your lights would be the following: > > 1. dig a whole in the lawn just outside your garage, about eight feet > > deep; > > 2. Fill the whole with a mixture of soil and ground charcoal; > > 3. Wet the whole with several gallons of water which is introduced at a > > slow rate; > > 4. Drive a standard copper-coated eight foot ground rod down in to the > > whole tamping the loose mixture around the ground rod: > > 5. attach a heavy copper wire to the ground rod and using insolated > > gloves, use the other end of the copper wire to probe the entire area > > inside and on the edge of the light socket and broken bulb, taking care > > not to cut yourself on any glass that may remain; > > 6. Once the probing is done, attach one lead of a volt meter to the > > copper wire, and using the other probe from the volt meter, check to > > ascertain if there is any voltage measured from all points available to > > you and the wire > > 7. 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