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Potato into Electricity

Experimenting how to produce electricity from a potato

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

🥔 INTO ⚡️

MY FIRST EXPERIMENT ON ELECTRICITY
Photo by Trey Ratcliff

MATERIALS

  • Potatoes
  • Copper nails
  • Galvanized nails
  • Cables
  • Multimeter
Photo by Brandi Redd

PROCESS STEPS

  • Get one potato
  • Insert a copper nail into it
  • Insert a galvanized nail at 2cm apart from the copper nail
  • Measure the voltage across the nails using a multimeter
  • Record the voltage
Photo by Jukan Tateisi

UPGRADE TO MULTI CELLS

  • Use 4 potatoes
  • Connect them in series
  • Resulting in a higher voltage result

4 potato cells in series