The kid didn't use a diode, he used a resistor. He also forgot to ground it. However he was using a crystal earphone, so maybe that'll replace the diode.
Alright. Skip the spud, use a piece of plastic from a bakery container, add foil to both sides, connect a Germanium diode, and a wire for each lead of a mono 1/4 guitar plug, and add the antenna to the side of diode as shown, and slowly turn the volume up, then the channel gain. It may hear tons of stuff at once. Any strong signal can blast in at any time, so NO HEADPHONES.
Even without the potato, it will work if the diode is connected to a wire antenna outside, the other side of diode connected to ground( short metal rod driven to ground)magnetic headphones or an old telephone handset connected across the diode, am broadcast stations will be heard depending if your location has nearby am stations though everything will be heard simultaneously because you don’t have a tuning capacitor and coil in the circuit( tank circuit) for proper tuning😄 It’s a basic crystal radio set.
Carrego meu celular em 15 minutos com batatas. Ligo para um food da vida e peço uma porção. Em quanto isso, coloco o carregador na tomada. Se o motoboy for meio lerdão, o celular estará carregado até mesmo sem batatas. Caso contrário, vou comendo elas com calma, tiro uma soneca e quando acordo... Há: 100 % carregado !!! É infalível !!! (Desde que não interrompam o fornecimento de energia).
Nah, that potato becomes a capacitor. grounding the other half to a waterpipe will help this pick up any very strong local am signal, broadcast, cb radio, aircraft...all at once, like a fishbowl scanner, no selectivity, just anything in 10 miles, once you add a Germanium diode. I am not building this, but not regretting watching it. I hope they make a followup vid with better results, and plug it into a guitar amp.
I don't need to be Brains from Thunderbirds to know this is a hoax. He should have eaten it and put on his real radio while eating. Er will this work with a cucumber?'. What's a diode?.
@@ballygeale1 True, but that’s what they were referring to by “diode”. I do think this video should give more detail, the instructions are really vague.
You turn it on by planting the potato. LOL, this video is just a joke. You can make very weak battery using a potato (or lemon) but you need a pieces of copper and zinc to use as electrodes. The video is BS.
