Electrolysis Project Page 23

I apologize for the very long delay in getting new information onto my site. The Holidays have finally come to an end now, and work seems to be settling back into a routine. I think it's a good time to get back to the important things in life --Over Unity Research! :)

I actually took this and the next picture before Christmas with the intent of deleting them. I was trying to show a simple setup that allows for a mini-lightning show. It is a $12.00 High Voltage generator from AllElectronics.com ...The thing is absolutely perfect for small amounts of HV low amperage. It puts out 7Kv at microamps so it is safe to touch even for small children.

By separating 2 metal plates with an insulator, you can adjust the gap to be just enough to get the mini-lightning show to start jumping all over the plates. My idea would be to try something like this under water! -Trouble is... I am scared to death to try killing myself in this manner. I have read far too many things about discharging high voltage under water. Things like blowing one's hands, arms or head off, come to mind directly. Blindness (from super-sonic flying water particles) is only one of the minor things to beware of!

Needless to say, I am not quite ready for that leap ...not yet at least. I do NOT recommend anyone try this at home, but if you were crazy enough to already try it, perhaps you could tell me what happened? :) -The idea of trying high voltage at the proper frequency to produce Over Unity Electrolysis is something I plan on pursuing, when I have more knowledge and confidence with the subject.

By putting the plates just a tiny bit too far apart, you can induce the sparks to jump continually between a path of least resistance. The screw driver near the plates provides the path for the sparks. What if that was an eye-dropper with 1 drop of water hanging on the end? hmmmm --Where are those safety glasses?

I was trying tonight to just dust off the old cobwebs. Hell, I was half scared to fire up the electrolyzer since it had been over 1 month since I ran any current through the thing :) I was worried about all sorts of things from leaks, to cracks or weakened glue joints.

Everything worked perfectly as you can see. I got up to about 6psi again, but until I go out to the garage to try some normal air pressure tests, I'm not sure I want to go any higher. Not in the basement at least. My plan is to go out to the garage and hook my air compressor up to the unit. It will slowly add pressure to the unit and if I get it up to 20psi without a problem, I will accept 10psi as my upper operation limit for Electrolysis.

I plan on setting a mini pressure sensor in line with the box to turn on below 8psi and turn off above 10psi. That way I hope to maintain a fairly stable pressure.

I was trying to get a nice picture here of the whole setup. Back right we see the electrolyzer box happily churning away. It was running on about 300 watts of power. In the middle we see the great protector ...or "Ghetto Bubbler" as I have lovingly dubbed it! In the foreground, we see my torch with the electronic ignition aparatus still attached.

I have since gone to a slightly larger bore needle. It works well and I get a flame more than double what it was with the smaller needle tip.

As you can see the flame is quite impressive now, compared to before. The orange tips were probably about 22 gauge and these purple tips are perhaps 21 or 20 gauge. I tried melting some steel with this flame, just to see if the performance improved with the larger flame... I nearly shat myself! It melted so quickly that a big blob fell off and splattered on the ground. It was a shame that I didn't have that on film but I was the only one in the basement and my wife would have probably freaked out if she saw me do that. The molten blob fell very close to my feet, and I was in socks and sandles! Plus it could have fallen on the gas tube and BOOM! Molten metal would have been instantly flung into the air! -Yes I did have my safety glasses on but it taught me a very valuable lesson.

Always have the video camera rolling when Chris is doing something stupid! --No seriously one should always have the flame directed outward and have a small bowl with sand under the flame to catch any falling stuff like molten metal! By the way when the blob hit the ground, it splattered into about 10 little exploding blobs, kind of like a firework blowing up. It was quite cool despite the terrible danger it posed, doing something so carelessly like that.