Electrolysis Project Page 50

Man look at those guys churn out the gas!

Here's a shot from the side. This was by far the most effecient gas production that I got to date. I was utilizing only 12v at 15a (180w) and I was getting nearly the same gas production as I was getting at 600w with my old cell that had 80 plates in series running off of 120v. I could get even more efficient production if I was to add another cell or two, but it would drop the amperage so much that I'd need several of these systems in parallel to produce a lot of gas. The ultimate design is going to probably be a series/parallel design of sorts. You want your voltage per cell to be as low as possible. That's where your efficiency comes into play. Your production rate is then increased by placing whatver system you have in parallel with other identical series systems.

Tonight I wanted to try some high voltage electrolysis experiments. I have to admit that I was pretty scared to try this stuff, but it was something I was always wanting to test. I have a bottle with 2 needles coming in through the sides here. Sorry for the blurred picture. The 2 needles have aligator clips on them.

Here's the entire setup. I have a small 12v winshield washer pump in line with a lightbulb to reduce the rate of the little motor. The electrolyte is flowin from the large 2 liter bottle down through the pump and into a hypodermic needle. That needle is shooting a tiny stream of electrolyte down through the smaller bottle, past the 2 needles. The stream of water is NOT touching the needles.

My theory is that this may flash boil the water at the point where the arcs touch the stream. I know that the plasma arcs are extreemly high in temperature so I want to force the arcs to travel through the water, but I want the arcs to transition from air to water and back to air. I think if it were to just go directly from the needles to the water, it would merely see the water as a conductive path. So to get the high temperature arcs, I force it to travel through the air for a bit. We'll see if my theory is correct or not.

The back end of this setup is from the inner workings of a 100,000v taser. That is my $12.00 solution to high voltage. :)