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Sicode
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 Posted - May 18 2011 : 08:26:18 AM
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Introduction
This is a simple boiler you can use in winter. You do not need to buy any part at all. It is made up of mainly five components: two metallic containers of different sizes, short sticks, your connecting wires and a plug. Just follow the diagram and do the simple, strange and funny construction.
This is open to criticism – it is just what I did when I was only ten years of age.
CONSTRUCTION
This is the first electrical work I ever did (in my childhood) that shot out stars of joy from my eyes. This construction will cost you nothing at all. You only need to have a knowledge of the kitchen to get started. So be very close to your mum or grandma this period. You would notice that most of the containers used in the kitchen are from tinned materials. Your tinned tomato comes in a similar container and as well as the milk container you take that comes in a metallic container. So if you are friendly with your grandma or the chef inform her to pack all the containers for you. Do not venture into emptying out an unused container and provoking grandma – we know how they behave.
Once you have two containers, then start of immediately. One container is big and the other small such that the small container can fit into the big one. First of all, make holes at the top of the containers, the size that can pass a 2.5mm PVC wire. You a small nail. Carefully open the tops of both containers. You can use your sandpaper to scrape away the rings on the container. A file is better. At the end you will have containers with hollows at both ends.
Once this is done, and the top and bottom of the containers removed, you are almost done. Go to your farm and pick some sticks(A). You can order African chewing-stick or if you remember the sticks you were once flogged with – just go get it from your father’s cupboard. Your choice of stick is necessary.
Put the small container inside the big one and separate them with an insulator(B). Insert the sticks evenly in the space between the containers, as seen in the diagram below(C). The sticks should take the length of the longer container so that the smaller one would be in the middle of the big one. Once this is done, connect your pvc 2.5mm wires(D). The red wire must be connected to the small container and the black to the big container at the small holes made at the top(E). See note below. Once this is done, then connect the wires to your plug. The red wire must go to the live terminal and the black to the neutral. A 13A plug must be used. Screw back your plug into position. You are done. Just get a plastic bucket(F). Please use a 13A plug(G). Fill it with water. Start the journey.
PRINCIPLE
The boiler work on partial short-circuit. Since the two containers used are not in any physical contact the partial short-circuit is brought about by the stick used. And naturally a wet stick is a poor conductor. Your water itself is a poor conductor. (This is based on the nature of the water used. If you remember your chemistry you will agree with me that dissolved substances in water can help water conduct well – this functioning as an electrolyte – kind of. If however, your water is completely pure and no impurity found, then you have something that would not conduct reasonably). The water used also behaves like an ordinary resistor. The closer the two containers are to each other, and separated by the stick, as tiny as you can have the sticks, the better the performance of the boiler – and of course the higher the wattage rating. So the thinner the space covered by the water (in-between containers) the higher the performance. This is at the regions around the sticks. The bigger the sticks the poorer the conduction of the water.
Identical container will give better performance (the same material).
PROBLEMS
The containers corrode very easily. You can go for pure material that don’t easily corrode.
NOTE
(A) The nature of sticks used is very critical. Find sticks that will not give off coloration.
(B) The sticks function as an insulator. However sticks when wet can conduct electricity. This is the only way the boiler can work. See PRINCIPLE above. Alternatively, you can use a weak conductor with conductivity close to that of a wet stick.
(C) Use up to seven long sticks to prevent shorting the metallic containers.
(D) This boiler consumes a lot of power like other electric boilers. Use a 2.5mm PVC wire.
(E) You must have to make connections as in the diagram. The red wire is the live wire and must be connected to the life terminal of the plug and the other end to the inner container. The black wire is the neutral that must be connected to the neutral terminal of the plug and the other end connected to the big metallic container. If you don’t follow it exactly this way you will live the entire water and could get a shock when you touch the water. Even with a wrong connection the boiler will still work. Use the right connection, and provided your wiring system follows the standard, you will not have the surface of the water indicating live with a tester. DESPITE YOUR RIGHT CONNECTION DO NOT TOUCH THE WATER ANYHOW – YOUR HOUSE WIRING COULD BE FAULTY – AND REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENS ONCE THERE IS AN UNBALANCED LOAD.
(F) You need a plastic bucket or container to avoid shock – in case your connection is wrong or your house-wiring. But I assure you, once you have the right connection, and your house-wiring is in order, and your socket/extension wire follows the right connection, and the power supply to your home is balanced, you will never get a shock when you touch the water. However, safety measures have no equal.
(G) You need a 13A plug such that you do not have to begin tracing the pin of your plug which should go to the live of your socket if you have used a two-pin plug. A 13A plug only has one way to connect to your socket provided it has the Earth pin.
PART LIST
1. Seven 7cm long sticks.
2. Metallic container 6.2cm long, 6.3cm diameter (or any arrangement you want).
3. Metallic container 3.8cm long, 5.3cm diameter (or any arrangement you want).
4. 1.5m long, 2.5mm PVC wire.
5. 13A plug
Coming soon: a radio jam. I did this at nine, from a walkman, and was able to stop my father’s radio and as well as those of my neighbours about 300m away.
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pebe
Nobel Prize Winner
United Kingdom
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Posted - May 18 2011 : 10:48:20 AM
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| I hope no-one attempts to make this dangerous contraption. It could prove LETHAL! |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - May 19 2011 : 8:41:49 PM
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That is honestly terrifying! Sure, it may work. But how many people will it kill?
Things may be different in Nigeria, but in North American and Europe, where we have actual circuit protection devices and an electrical company that cares, no sane person would connect a device like this to the grid. Not only because it is insanely dangerous, nor because if someone was injured they would be inclined to sue, but mainly because we all have a device called a "kettle" which will boil water safely on command. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - May 19 2011 : 11:00:09 PM
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I'm surprised no one posted this before me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bU-I2ZiML0 |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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audioguru
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 08:02:25 AM
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| Although my electricity is fairly inexpensive and very reliable, my water heater (and furnace) burn natural gas that is cheaper because it simply comes out of the ground somewhere. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - May 20 2011 : 11:04:29 AM
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| Yep. According to my dad, it's cheaper for us to boil water over a gas stove than it is to boil water in a microwave oven. However, the heating efficiency is better with the microwave oven (Less wasted energy). |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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pebe
Nobel Prize Winner
United Kingdom
1078 Posts |
Posted - May 20 2011 : 12:17:21 PM
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| A microwave oven is very wasteful of electricity compared to a kettle with an immersion heater that is just about 100% efficient. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - May 20 2011 : 11:34:36 PM
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| That's what I think too. I haven't tested it for myself but that's probably right. Maybe I should propose getting a kettle - if it's cheaper than using gas to warm water. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
Edited by - wasssup1990 on May 20 2011 11:43:43 PM |
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Sicode
Apprentice
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Posted - May 21 2011 : 09:50:34 AM
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Loooooooooooooooooooool. funny.
funny replies from the house. i love this site. just get ready to laugh.
anyway, i did this when i was quite young. save for my work on cassettes, it was the first electrical risk i ever took. i did it with a lot of courage. the end result suffered a hell of applause from friends. it worked very well that i jettisoned the use of our natural boiler. although i quareled with my parents over it (they destroyed it a million times and i reconstructed it a million thanks). think what happens to a child when out of his curiousity he discovers something that works in real life. that day i was completley mad. i probably forgot to eat and sleep in the night, and must have had a million dream about the stuff the next time i managed to sleep . all of my friends shared it together. we went on constructing, but never without millions of lashes from our parent on our back.
ALTHOUG it is crazy to build, i could come to reralize certain facts from this mad construction today. cheer up!!! i love you all
(my second circuit at childhood was a radio jam. it was mysterious how it worked - even when i was a kid. i was able to stop my father and my neighbours from using thier radios - when i wanted to selfishly tune to a music station. maybe by the time i give the circuit on how i mysteriously did it i would be proclaimed a bad kid. i am a bit worried, however, for people could abuse it and at the end land themselves into prisons. there are yet several crazy circuits i did at childhood, and even the explosion that swept me and my neighbour into the street for safety. i think i was a good kid, anyway. |
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Sicode
Apprentice
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Posted - May 21 2011 : 10:23:38 AM
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| Hey dudes, I want more of your replies. This work is solely for practice. You guys respond like Madrid fans. I am Barca, the winning team. so lash my childhood work like real madrid fans |
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