Here is what you need to do to turn the potato into a battery and get it to work the clock:
- If there is a battery already in the clock, remove it.
- Insert a galvanized nail into each potato.
- Insert a short piece of copper wire into each potato. Put the wire as far as possible from the nail.
- Use an alligator clip to connect the copper wire of one potato to the positive (+) terminal of the clock's battery compartment.
- Use another alligator clip to connect the nail in the other potato to the negative (-) terminal in the clock's battery compartment.
- Use the third alligator clip to connect the nail in potato one to the copper wire in potato two.
- Set your clock.