electrolysys with horizontal plates

[Walter Hofmann]

Walter!

Lets all hope that when you get to 4000 LPH. enough to run that 3hp engine past idle that you never have another explosion.

Hi joule,
i dont know about the 4000 LPH because there are to many different numbers out there what is needed for a IC engine the most data are comming from calculation based on pure pressurized hydrogen with a specific mixture on oxygen, here we are dealing with something different. I will find out how much it realy takes.
In regards to the explosion it did give quite something but in comparisson if you are familiar with oxy azethylen welding there are sometimes flashbacks too and i have seen bigger ones.
greetings
walt

[Walter Hofmann]

Walt
I used the ignition coil in the video to ignite the gas as it was created. The coil was driven by a resonant circuit tapped with a npn transistor to give a steady and rapid firing.   The hose coming out of the bubbler was ?? with 2 pecies of 3/8? tube inside that held the little ball as a check valve. I decided after that to build a stack, like you see in the oil patch, it was a small brass tube, 6? long, crimped on the top end to a pin hole, like a torch end, to test burning the gas. The thing I found most interesting was that even though the end was like a torch and I had a check valve at the bottom, the flash backs still happened and it was like the gas had the ability to run back on itself, what I mean is, it seem to create a vacuum when it ignited and would not push the check valve closed by back pressure but suck it open. If you watch the video frame by frame you can see when it backfires how the flame actually starts at the bottom of the tube.

Camster

Hi camster,
I mean that everyone experiementing with this has seen the explosion. A check valve does not prevent a flashback from going all the way, because like you say the gass runs back because it is not actually not a explosion it is like a implosion what means it sucks inside befor the flame expands. But with a bubbler this is the actually stop for anythings happening.
What kind of power you are using and what are the voltage and current? I also could not see what kind and how many plates you are using.
I got a big workshop 1400 sq feet and 16 feet high where I do my experiements with a concrete floor and steel walls.
greetings
walt

[c0mster]

@Walter
I used a 12volt 14 Amp Hour motorcycle battery that pulled about 5 amps through the cell. You can see a picture of the ? od 316SS cell here http://cmnet.ca/projects/split.html and some other experiments I tried.

Camster

[hartiberlin]

Here are now 3 videos from Walter.

This is the first one, showing him trying to run the output of the 2 electrolizers and
bubbler to his lawnmoyer motor.
But the gas production is still too low.

[hartiberlin]

Here is the next video showing his 2 Electrolyzers in series and the bubbler
and the amount of gas he is producing at 12 Volts and 30 amps DC.

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