I’m not the first to make a silver cell. But I might be the first do use an old chicken coop as a lab. #chickenlab 🤓

We had some chickens, the last of them recently died and/or moved to a different place. I built the coop with an easily cleanable fiberglass resin panel floor. So I figured… why deal with fumes and kids bumping it near the house, and try using the coop. Hosed it out, bleached it, and it is now where I’m running my first little silver cell.

I made the electrolyte at a final concentration of 120.8 g/L (my target was 120 so I think I did pretty good there). Haven’t balanced a chemistry equation since college so that was neat, trying to guesstimate where I’d land between concentrated nitric and dilute nitric equations for silver nitrate.

So stinkin cool. This will probably never be profitable, but it’s fun! (But I’m open to tips on making it profitable, too!)

Anyway- thanks for checking it out. 54.5 hours running, .400A constant current the whole run. I think it should have around 87g in it. I’m just stoked and wanted to share!

#chickenlab photos