It's Alive! Amoeba cell!

[Riddler250]

If you cut voltage with resistors you are wasting energy.

You may just as well dump gas onto the highway.

A better way to achieve 2 Vdc is to use an ac inverter and a step down transformer followed by a bridge rectifier to produce any low voltage dc.

The nice thing about doing it this way is that you can control the Amps with a light dimmer.

BoyntonStu

either way you will have wasted heat. the inverter will have less waste heat, and would be more efficient. If you cut it down in the electrolyte bath you can use the heat to stimulate the water molecules into moving more, possibly making the cell more efficient?

[Riddler250]

To raise MMW you need ~2.33 V per cell.

14/x = 2.33 ; x = 6

You need 7 plates for 6 cells.

Fewer plates will lower MMW at 14 Volts.

BoyntonStu

is the 2.33v per cell related to the size of the plates in the cell, or do you think that 2.33v is optimum for plates larger than those used in the amoeba cell?
Thank you,
David