amperage or voltage? plate gap vs resisitive distance?

[ydeardorff]

As I have gotten past my research stage, and on to building a working dry cell, I now of course am looking to refine the design, and go bigger to use 12vdc instead of 6vdc. Since 12 volt batteries are more common than 6.

If a voltage divider is built with a parallel set of resistors spread between a positive and a negative, we could say the electrolyte + gap distance is this same thing in fact, yes? (at least electrically)

Now so I may understand the electronics behind this better:

If I rig up a cell that has 4 positive plates directly connected to the positive, and 3 that are directly connected to the negative, wouldn't that be 2 vdc? Or would it be 12vdc per plate gap. Then this would be an amperage splitter rather than a voltage splitter, yes? Since as I understand it, its not the volts, but its the amps (or electrical pressure) that is driving this cell. For instance if I had 10,000 volts, but only .005 mA, then my cell would do nothing. But if I had the reverse, I would boil the electrolyte, and possible melt the thing down.

I was told by a company a couple of years ago, that 8vdc is what they use, anything higher resulted in loss of quality production of hydrogen gas. So if I was to run 8VDC into this cell in this configuration, but only keep the amps under control it wouldn't heat up, and I would get very good quality performance from the cell, yes? So if I applied 15 amps to the cell totally it would be 2.5 amps but 12 volts per cell gap yes?
Someone a long time ago referred to water flow being like that of voltage, and the pressure its under being that of amperage. So If I were to take a 6 inch pipe (voltage source) and make a manifold of 6 nozzles that were 1 inch wide (plate gaps) I would have the same amount of flow, with the pressure divided at each nozzle by 6. cumulatively they make up the parent pressure, but the same flow.

How does one control just the amps? A PWM?

I have been told that getting rid of the neutral plates reduces heat significantly. So I would like to try this. Its only time, and sacrificing more cutting boards for my project, Goodwill is full of them. LOL

Any help here?

I am using dissimilar metals and materials, in a internally manifolded dry cell. I use the internal manifolding system I developed to remove voltage leaks, and to allow the ability to separate the two gases via a permeable membrane.

My tests thus far have been using 3VDC per plate gap on a two gap cell. I experienced overheating after two hours, and even after the electrolyte cooled, and was dilluted by 75% my electrolyte was 100 ohms more conductive than the starting batch.