An LED will only take about 20 ma, so if you hook it up between the
battery posts without a current limiter, it will blow out. Doing this won't
tell anything about the CS either.
Try putting the LED in series with the output. It will be dim at first
and grow brighter as the water becomes more conductive. Again, if you
short out the electrodes, the LED will burn unless there is some sort of
current limitation like a resistor or grain of wheat bulb also in
series. Somewhere between 1.5k ohms and 2 K ohms should do it.
Ken
At 09:33 PM 8/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
Thank You Dave, Bob and Ken,
Your clear instructions helped me greatly, and both generators are up and
running! My family seems to be hit with a mid summer flu type thing,
probably the heavy rains alternating with hot and humid weather that we have
happening in NY, and we've been using alot of the CS lately.
One other question, if I may, I had a couple bulbs (LED I think), one I had
attached to the generator I made, I took it off today because it didn't
light up real bright as I was making the CS (had to have the lights off and
it was barely visible), but when I made a circuit using the generator and
clipping the negative wire of the bulb to the positive alligator clip and
vice versa for the positive wire, it lit up. I guess it is one that is made
for a circuit?? The second one lit up regardless of whether I hooked either
wire up to the positive or negative node of a battery, (I even tried it with
the three 9v and it worked) so I thought it would work with the generator,
but when I soldered it, it was a dead connection, and then failed to work
after I took it off so I must have blown the bulb somehow (it was one that
my automechanic neighbor gave to me that he took off some gadget or car and
both wires were red). I like the idea of a bulb to help me know if the
battery needs replacing, but neither kind seemed to work. Any suggestions
for future projects? The Radio shack I go to doesn't seem to carry the
right bulb that is given in Bob Beck's instructions for building a
generator.
Again, thank you and many blessings to you!
Beth
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