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I've been struggling for the past day to install TALYS (talys.eu) (http://www.talys.eu/fileadmin/talys/user/docs/talys1.8.pdf), a nuclear reaction simulator. Despite attempting their instructions over a dozen times now (both through their setup script and the manual option), each time on a...

This would definitely be more efficient but Tritium is gaseous so I wouldn't be able to put it onto a semiconductor without good equipment, and solid beta emitters are really hard to find in large enough quantities.

After making the original post I was able to get a much higher quality multimeter and test the device. I measured just about 50-60 nanoamps of current. What was interesting was that the original multimeter measured 0.46V, while the new one measures 0.51V, which seems to back up what you...

The light source is very very dim - I'm using a tritium phosphor vial as the source with a tube of reflective foil around it to redirect some of light back into the cell. This is also why I have to use the capacitor, because without storing the energy over time and releasing it in a burst the...

I know that the capacitor reading is relatively correct because it is able to power the joule thief LED circuit that only runs from approximately 0.8V and higher. Would a different multimeter perhaps provide more accurate measurements of the cell or should I just use capacitor readings as the...

Connecting the cell to the multimeter with no other load gives 0.46V (I rounded up in the post).

This has been confusing me a lot lately. I built a type of battery derived from a solar cell that outputs a constant voltage of 0.5 Volts. My original plan was to work out a method to boost this voltage to around 1V to power a joule thief and light an LED using a capacitor charged by the cell...