How to Make a Lemon Drum Kit: 5 Steps

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How to Make a Lemon Drum Kit: 5 Steps
How to Make a Lemon Drum Kit: 5 Steps
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How to make a galvanic cell battery using a lemon.

Steps

Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 1
Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 1

Step 1. Polish a small strip of zinc and a copper coin with a little fine sandpaper

Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 2
Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 2

Step 2. Without breaking the peel, squeeze the lemon a little

Squeezing releases the juices inside the lemon.

Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 3
Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 3

Step 3. Score the lemon with two cuts of about one or two centimeters

Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 4
Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 4

Step 4. Insert the copper dime in one cut and the zinc strip in the other

Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 5
Create a Battery from a Lemon Step 5

Step 5. Check for voltage using the leads from a voltmeter on the copper coin and zinc

Advice

  • You can replace the zinc coin with a galvanized steel nail.
  • If you can use a copper strip instead of the coin, the battery will work even better. You can push the strip even deeper into the cell. The cents and pennies minted after 1982 have only a very thin layer of surface copper, while the rest of the coin is zinc. So cents and pennies that date from before 1982 and some from 1982 have a higher concentration of copper. You can feel the difference by dropping the pennies on a hard surface. If you can use a copper strip you will get better results.
  • You can replace the voltmeter with the speaker of an old transistor radio.
  • Many other types of substitutions are possible - experiment.
  • This type of battery is called wet cell; normal batteries, on the other hand, are dry.

Warnings

  • When working with electricity, always be careful.
  • The electrical energy in a single cell is not particularly strong. To turn on a light bulb you will need several cells connected together (two or more cells form a battery).

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