Heartwarming Tips About How To Build A Potato Battery

The first step is to cut our potato in half and then lay the potato cut side down onto a flat surface.

How to build a potato battery. When building a potato battery, you can start by gathering your supplies. Like a lemon, a potato can produce electricity. Touch the red and black test leads to the galvanized wire and the copper penny in the potato.

Just like any great experiment. The process of building the potato battery is relatively simple but will involve some investigation and testing. You can use several potatoes to power a small light bulb.

This science experiment was prepared by ebtisam al anzoor and demonstrated by mustafa daif. A popular electricity experiment illuminates a small light bulb using only a potato, galvanized nails, pennies, and insulated copper wire. To prepare everything you'll want to wrap the red (or black, it doesn't matter, but because i know the penny will end up as our +lead we'll use red).

How to build a potato battery. Take note of the reading. Look carefully at the sides of the potatoes.

To view the next video in this series click: Each potato in the battery should have one zinc side (screw) and one copper side (penny) with wires attached. Preparing your potato an penny.

Strip one end of a copper wire. The steps to making a potato battery. You will need 1.5v to light up the led light.