Precious tritium is the fuel that makes this project glow. There's only 25 pounds of it on the whole planet. I would like to thank Harry Osborn and Oscorp Industries for providing it.
if you wrap the package in aluminium foil, before sealing it with the tape, you could reflect the tiny amount of light shining through the gap between the solar cells. It probably wouldn't improve it very much, but since these tritium vials are very dim and the power output of the battery is never going to be very high, even the smallest amount of increase in efficency could be beneficial.
@@danielescobar7618 if only there would be a foil or tape made from nonconductive transparent material, something like saran wrap or clear packing tape. Or you could also just seal the contacts with some glue. Yes I really thought this out.
"Being an unstable isotope with a half-life of 12.32 years, tritium loses half its brightness in that period. The more tritium that is initially placed in the tube, the brighter it is to begin with, and the longer its useful life"
Yeah. Im considering getting some tritium vials and doing like a cube with them and making a solar panel box with mirror polished corner pieces to hold em all in place. kinda hope to get 5 volts total.. maybe get a series of cubes together if I have to.
george aura it's actually not just a little glow stick. It's a radioactive gas called tritium trapped inside a phosphorus lined piece of glass. The radioactive decay of the tritium atoms throws out electrons hitting the phosphorus creating light :)
they are actually just glow sticks. I once had some that look exactly like those. You can see that there are little bubbles in them at 2:10 whereas a tritium tube is made from clear glass with an even coating of a white phosphorous material on the inside :-)
You could also make a digital clock run for 10 years with a couple of 50-cent coin cell batteries, as opposed to $30 worth of tritium. Neat concept though, you earned a like from me
Nurdrage's response to me when I pointed this video out to him: "Wasn't even a ripoff, that's just a blatant fake. The radioactive vials he's showing are actually glow sticks. Real vials appear greenish white in light. Not the deep green like that video."
Not necessarily. I mean I did it before both of them but this idea has been around for awhile. For example it's not like everyone who uses a capacitor has to credit the inventor of the capacitor.
tritium is radioactive but safe to handle as long as it is contained within its vials. Work carefully to avoid breaking the vials. if they do break, leave the area and ventilate it for a few hours to disperse the gas. i suggest to work with not too much light, so you can see the light from the vials ;)
electronics wait so say i spilled some on accident, would that room become unusable? how does tritium affect the body? why is it used in sights for guns?
urjnlegend the air would become radioactive, and not-so-good. tritium affects human body like any other radioactivity source. i don't know why is used in sights
If the vial breaks, immediately open all windows. Ventilate the room thoroughly for at least 2 days, use a fan to help air circulation if there is no wind. The air in the room will not become radiactive, it's just the tritium gas that is weakly radioactive. This should remove all or most of the radioactive gas. The room would not become contaminated like Chernobyl, don't worry. Since it's a gas, it's also easy to remove, you just need to ventilate.
No then the pinouts would short. Unless he put 2 tapes on only the pins and kept the rest with foil. Even then the power generated by the reflecting light could melt the solar panel and the foil.
That would waste way too much usable energy. 0.3-0.7V drop in a 12V system might not be a big deal but at 1.5V it would be too wasteful. Also the diodes on the negative side are completely unnecessary
exit signs (some) also contain tritium for emergency lighting in power failures. I have done the same thing to solar lanterns to make underwater solar cells (protected by conducting plastic it was a solar hydrogen test)
Tritium is very expensive (a aluminum alloy tritium vial sold at banggood.com 54$) and to my knowledge needs to be recharged with sunlight but will output light for decades, unlike bioluminescent lights.
Nah, it doesn't need to be recharged from an external source. The entire point of the H3 is to emit beta radiation that excites the phosphor that coats the interior of the borosilicate vial. You can bury it for a decade or two and come back to a vial that still gives off a glow.
+PunakiviAddikti, you can't "recharge" a tritium light, and certainly not with sunlight. What happens in there is radioactive decay. Reversing that takes a fusion reactor.
Eric and punak you guy are talking like according to my calculations if you guys wanna talk all genius just get each others numbers so you can reach an agreement Jesus Christ
Me looking at the thumbnail: (Scene from kung fu panda plays in my head) Tai lung: You're bluffing, You're bluffing! Shifu would never teach you that! Po: You're right!..... I figured it out.
This definitely works.. just hard to say if it's better to do it this way or simply grab a $5 lithium cell that will last 10 years or so discharging a few microamps.
@@kovu21gaming68 Yea but the return on the investment is low. It's just cool. There may be certain niche applications it would shine but you would need a large amount of tritium to get more than minuscule power conversion. Lasersaber on youtube has done demonstrations powering small magnet motors using little stacks of tritium tubes and solar cells.
it looked so much better in the titel picture, i thought you would show how to build a tritiumph something Nuclear battery like in the titel picture😢😢😢 but its still a awsome project👍
I want to build one now, but i will use more vials and flexible solar cells to capture every photon for power generation. That is if i can buy some, I'm tired of my TI- 84 calculator batteries dying when i need it most.
i would also really appreciate it if you labeled the materials... you can edit in text, why not label what you're working with? it just leads to confusion
I have a question? 1.Where can we buy tritium? 2.If it expensive can we get it from any thing wecan get easily? 3.How can we increase the volt of battery (My grammar may not be very good anyway great video!)
Brandon Scully, you know most batteries come in bulk right? So If I get a pack of let's say 25 for about $3 it last 2.5x as long for ~26x less money wise, sure you have to change them, but it's worth it for the low cost and bulk sizes.
everyone plz stop being rude! do u think he would buy all that stuff for a fake video?! he worked so hard on this video so people can learn and enjoy things! these types of comments make people feel bad! sometime even blow of their self esteem! and also make them feel like junk and this sometimes lead to suicidal deathes! everyone knows that, also knows that it's true!
ReisenFruit in the first place, this battery only offers you 1.5 volts, a phone needs at least 4 to 5 volts to be charged which means you'll need at least three batteries to properly charge your phone. Secondly, the batteries produce a very very low current or amperage which means that even though it has got sufficient voltage, it doesn't contain sufficient amounts of energy to charge your phone at a reasonable speed. Do not try to connect your cube to it due to the fact that charging cubes run on 120 volts AC and with the battery, you'd be getting 1.5 volts DC. So your best bet would be to rip your charging cable apart and connect the red and black cables directly to the battery and if your phone starts charging at all, the speed at which it will charge will be so slow that even though it seems it is charging, your phone will only be slowly discharging. Hope it helped :)
It won't charge. At all. This setup can barely output half a microwatt, at best. A single breath will charge the battery up an order of magnitude more.
I wonder if it'll work with rechargeable glow sticks. Because I'd like to make a rechargeable battery Basically you put it out in the sun and the battery charges and generates electricity And the phosphorus stores the energy which generates electricity from solar panels.
Just so you know, that tape will block some of the light. I suggest finding a way to secure them in place with less obstruction. To prove my point, glass windows block a LOT of light, if they didn't, buildings wouldn't have windows. While the tape is thin and clear, the tritium is nowhere near as bright as the sun, so every photon filtered, makes a big difference. The best way would be securing it at the ends, maybe with a tiny bit of super glue or hot glue (if you can keep it off the solar cells and not enlarge the size with big globs of hot glue, which aren't great as an adhesive in small amounts).
You can power a digital clock for 10 years no problem. Only costs you $30 in tritium keyrings, a couple of solar cells and some other materials. For that price you can probably power a digital clock 30 years with aa batteries ;)
The funniest part was that he bought those batteries and the solar light but inside the solar light is a freaking battery that would have worked so much better😂
He should have left a gap the size of one of the "glow sticks". He could have used used a section of glass tubing. He also could have super glued them into a + and used 4 more solar cells to make a cube. I wonder if batteries or capacitors would help. If so he could have used the green batteries he took out.
this is kind of funny because you took something that uses energy from the sun, gave it a much weaker source of power, and then sealed all other light off from it, then removed the rechargable battery that went to a light... if you just plugged a clock into the rechargable battery that came with the lamp, you could have one that will last as many years as the photocell lasts. but still neat trick
I call SHENANIGANS! NurdRage got 1.9VDC out of 14 of those tritium vials with the best case scenario amorphous crystalline solar cells that are designed for low-light applications, at 1.23 MICRO amps. You're gonna set here and tell me you're getting 7.52VDC out of TWO tritium vials and cells that aren't designed for the low level light given off by tritium vials? Shenanigans, sir. Shenanigans.
The following instructions were unclear so here's what I got for the information: but tritium, eat tritium, shit out tritium, die; and now here we are.
So how this works is that tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen and its decaying slowly partially releasing energy. It glows in its gaseous form, when the solar cell is added the glow will power it.
