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When life gives you lemons make batteries 😂

What would have been a good and valid further experiment would have been to flush out the batteries and refill them with the original acid, then tested them to see how much of the batteries' original capacity had been lost, and whether or not the batteries would have once again been able to start the car. You never know, those batteries may have been entirely recoverable, or very nearly. Go on guys, I dare you, repeat this experiment and then restore the original chemistry - See what happens next?!

Yeah I'm pretty sure I know why they're not charging. I use to work at a lead acid battery factory. The negative plate loves organics in the lemon liquid but the positive plate absolutely does not like organics in the lemon juice. It's literally killing the positive plate. Just FYI

You need to put some in series and some in parallel to get more volts and more current.

Too much lemon juice and too short charging time... You also need to use lower charging current with a new battery. Old school mechanics use capacitor to help the battery accept charge.

i wonder if you dump them out, rinse them with distilled water, and then refill with battery acid if they will work again? I would give it a shot since you probably got the acid in one of those filler gizmos when you bought the batteries 😉

You guys forgot the sugar.

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When life gives you lemons, don't make car batteries.

It's Russia use potatoes, copper, and magnesium. It will work. Each cell will provide a potential 1.5 volts at 300ma each potato 🥔 😀 100 potatoes approximately 30amps if everything is setup well

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The juice is the problem, because it's juice, made up with water, sugars, fibre from the lemons, and in there is the citric acid which is what makes the batteries "work", boiling the juice down, filtering out the fibre and somehow separating out the sugars would yeild a useful amount of citric acid, which would very likely get the batteries working, of course, it'd be easier just to get a tub of citric acid, make up a saturated solution of it in distilled water and you're off the the lemon races... :P

They can't power a starter/solenoid because they were wired wrong. You need around 11.5v-14v to run those things, but still a good amount of amperage. So maybe try it like this: two sets of batteries - each set has 3 batteries wired in parallel. Now wire the two sets in series, about 15v. That probably would have at least turned the starter that was outside the engine.

Not acid enough. Try 2 in series to double the voltage then wire each pair in parallel for your current.

Maybe concentrating the juice would help

I reckon if you wash out the lemon juice in those batteries and fill with the acid again they will work. I washed a battery out before and it worked like a charm. :) What normally happens in a lead acid battery is the lead sulphate falls to the base of the battery and short circuits it, if that lead precipitate is removed it no longer shorts and the battery has a longer life than one would expect.

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If the batteries are ruined, then you may as well put 2 in series to see if you can bump the voltage up to 12v? With a flat battery in my car, I used 2 flat car batteries in series to get my total voltage to 18v and that cranked my 4.0L straight 6 over many many times? I think it was near 20 cranks before the voltage sagged and it struggled to start? I would also try connect 1 battery to your charger as the charger is distributing the amps over the batteries in parallel, so that will make each battery charge very very slow? Some battery chargers need to see a minimum amount of voltage before the charger will charge at the full amps? Put 1 battery on the charger and then use a fully charged car battery positive to positive (making only 2 batteries in parallel - 1 fully charged the other 1 of your lemon batteries) the fully charged battery should bump the voltage up on the lemon battery and allow the charger to charge at full amps 👍 Very last thing is to try a different battery charger with different modes on it? Select the recondition mode and try changing the battery? I have 2 chargers at home and 1 of them will error out and not charge the battery if it's too flat; the other charger with the various modes on it, will charge the battery that wouldn't charge on the other battery charger? I hope you get to try these tips and one then helps.....I really want to see you start the car with a lemon battery breaking bad style hahaha

should have put two x 2 in parallel then put those 2 set in series you would have had the right amount needed with just four, it's the way you connected them

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Well that was an interesting experiment. May I suggest you empty out the lemon juice and refill with battery acid. Just a thought😀

I would save those batteries, dump the lemon juice out and try it again when concentrated lemon juice. Think about the concentration of sulfuric acid in the battery. If the lemon juice were concentrated to the same acidity, it might work better. Would be cool to see lemon juice or vinegar at a similar or greater concentration. Maybe even 40% might be more ideal. If you can drain those, you might be able to reuse them. Anyway still a cool experiment. Love you guys.👍

Should have put the lemon juice through a coffee filter then into the battery. CHUNKS😂

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I want to see Garage54 reverse the GagFilms “Insane Car Battery Hack” by taking the housing of an OEM car battery and filling it up with AA batteries, wired appropriately. How many times can you start with car with several hundred AA batteries?

The specific gravity of lemon juice is lower than battery acid.

Should have run pairs in series and each of the pairs in parallel. They could have easily gotten to over 12V with good current.

I think you should have left them on charge much longer to give them a chance to get fully charged. 6 batteries even with acid would take a long time to charge with that small charger.

Try to evaporate water to make it more potent so you will have more energy to store

Citric acid wiill dissolve thelead anode and lead dioxide cathode while sulfuric acid will not attack the cathode. So my guess is, that the citric acid dissolves the cathode and that lowers the voltage.

These dudes got more time in their hands than they know what to do with

The last dry motorcycle battery I bought, it was already pre-charged, before I added the electrolyte, as it said on the packaging.

Should be able to wire 3 sets of batteries in series to get 14v and wire the 3 sets of batteries together in parallel to get more power

When cells overflow there is electrolytic coupling between them and that can ruin the voltage/amperage

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I’m surprised you didn’t hook them up in series to boost the voltage

More batteries and a few in a row! I want to see them starting a motor!😆

Wire them in series, or 2 parallel banks in series?

I like how they try even if it doesn't work, хороший характер 😊

When heating lemon juice (citric acid) it breaks down so the acid boiling is a bad thing if you want it to charge it you must do it slower and with temperature monitoring

Citric acid can be used instead of cyanide as an electroplating flash agent my guess is your dissolving the lead into lead citrate more expensive batteries contain calcium metal and silver which also make citrates

Should have tried Gatorade. I've heard that stuff's full of electrolytes. I'm sure it would work great.

Should have wired them in a combination of series and parallel to make the output 14v. I think you might have had a chance that way.

Charging lemonade love it 🤣

Hello. i watch from Canada! I Love your channel, keep the episodes coming, maybe yuo can do something like and Lada 4X4 Remote Control crawler

I believe from memory "aka I can’t be bothered googling it" the chemical reaction that takes place in a lead acid accumulator as it was known is very specific with the chemical reaction involving particular compounds the reaction I believe is from lead and lead oxide then the acid actually binds with the plates on discharge to be come lead sulphate and the charge cycle reverses the process drives the lead out of the plates to restore the original state hence this reaction doesn’t work in the absence of sulphuric acid this being a key part of the reaction and isn’t necessarily replaceable with a different acid especially one so different as to if a different acid works it’s remotely possible I suppose but I doubt it.

Can you try citric acid in concentrated form? Or Saltwater? Any reply appreciated cheers from Australia 👍

Did you try concentrating it by condensing it to strengthen the acid? (Evaporate the water out)

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Even if you filter the lemon juice, pure lemon juice is a much weaker acid than 35% concentration sulphuric acid. Real battery electrolyte consists of 35% sulphuric acid & 65% distilled water. But then I guess everyone knows that. If i had to try lemon juice, I'd filter it a few times to get it as clear as possible. Then concentrate it till you get the correct specific gravity (1260 gravity measured with hydrometer) It may still not work but we'd like to see the results. Very entertaining channel though and great voiceover.

You should try to use a solution of lemon salt instead - You can mix the right amount whatever acid concentration you need. Can we replace a lead-acid battery with a Lithium-Ion battery instead?

Yes you can have voltage. But also amperage is important.

You Could try taking half of these and hooking them into series. 7+7=14V but at half the amps

Will this rejuice the voltage?

Make an electric Lada using car batteries and starter motors

Great experiment. Remove the citrus , rinse the battery plates and refill with H2SO4 and see if the batteries still work.

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Lead Citrate is soluble in water. It will destroy the plate.

You might need a ton more batteries in parallel to get the cranking amps for the starter motor.

OK so after talking to ChatGPT it seems that "During discharge (when current is drawn), sulfuric acid dissociates into ions, facilitating the flow of electrons and generating electrical energy." and that lemon juice, while acidic, is not reactive enough to provide enough ions. This implies it would cause a bottleneck for the electrons, which makes sense since you are seeing voltage and SOME current flow, but not as much as you would get from the more reactive sulfuric acid for the same volume of liquid. SOLUTION: A lot more batteries. You can also do a "bank" of a few batteries in series to increase the voltage, and then combine the banks in parallel to divide the current draw between them

The acid is not strong enough. IT may be residual sulfate when lead acid batteries are precharged in the store. You may be better off using aluminum and magnesium sulfate mixed in distilled water in the lead acid battery. You may have to clean out the used batteries of lemon juice and flush with distilled water. And trickle charge them after filling with the aluminum and magnesium sulfates, if not 50% aluminum sulfate and 25% potassium and magnesium sulfate for alum battery. It may take time for them to form. Expect about 8 volts per battery or so. Aluminum sulfate should do okay by itself.

Connecting the batteries in parallel increases capacity, connecting them in series increases voltage.

5:29 it's the water transforming into oxygen and hydrogen (electrolysis)

What if you have flat battery situation and you use that battery to get a spark when car is given push-start. I kind of expected them to even try this.

I have heard that stuff that make pickle juice have great results

should be charged much longer to work properly and activate

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how about if you put together 3+3 batteries in series? at least you would get higher voltage, maybe the starter motor would react?

Wouldnt the liquid jumping over to the other cell be causing a short?. Be why your getting spuracted voltage drops. The expanshion of liquids means theres less space in the meaning there is to much acid.

Come to the US and our battery charger are the size of a welder, go to Russia and they figured out how to make a book sized battery charger.

Make 20 sets of these connect in series/ parallel and see if it will start a car

You should have boiled the juice down to make more concentrated

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Don't even compare a bulb to a starter motor. You need roughly 100x more power for it ;) Now why it doesn't work well: the orange juice contains some citric acid that theoretically should do the job, but also water and other chemicals. It may be too weak (acid concentration too low), then - the other, not very conductive or reactive impurities might cover the electrodes and introduce resistance. The resistance is the worst thing because it means a huge loss of power when a heavy load (as a starter motor) is connected. Well, the lemon juice works as "battery acid", but pretty poorly.

Great idea to charge a phone in a survival situation.

Hi Use it in series to get higher voltage

With pure lemon juice the acid level was too high. It may have worked if the PH level was correct before filling the batteries. Battery health or ability to function is directly correlated to the PH of the electrolyte.

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you should try boiling them with a welder to bring them back to life

Can you send link to that charger

Interesting experiment

Too many contaminants in the orange juice. Looking up the battery model, these are indeed supposed to produce 12V, where one cell should output 2.2V

the batteries still work

You only need that the spark plugs are working, You would try pushing the car to start the motor.

The lemon juice will cause internal shorts in the battery. IF you had filled it with water, you'd have a better chance of making a battery out of it after charging.

You maybe able to wash out the batteries with distilled water and then fill them with sulfuric acid 🤔🤔that would be cool to see do you think you could make another video of that to see what happens?

Sorry, but this was completely stupid. When the voltage is going down during charging, it is a good sign - it means that internal resistance is dropping. I would use lower current (so it is not boiling so much) and let it charge at least 24 hours.

Bro split that battery bank into 2 series and 2 parallel and retest the starter motor. That’ll give you like 12amps when it’s under load and that might turn it over.

Try, distilled water and ebsom salt, in dry batteries.

try to put parallels of 2 in series, it will give about 18v

Thank you BMI russian .. nice voice over

When will people understand that you actually need a lot of Amps to even turn the starter motor, on 12V system you need roughtly 170A just to get 2KW of cranking power. STARTING A CAR CAN TAKE UP TO 400A WITHOUT A SWEAT💀

Run it in two series groups of parallel batteries to get it to 14v. That will get the voltage high enough. But with the voltage drop you're getting from the light, you're going to need a lot more batteries to get the current up enough to start an engine.

Paralel and series! 7+7,7+7,7+7x2!

I thought you were going to try this on a car battery and test drive it.

Try flushing the lemon juice out and use the battery acid to see if they will recover

Lemon juice is slightly acidic the results weren't surprising