Plasma Electrolysis by IronHead

[Robb077]

Hkyle:
I really like the series of two plasmas running two radiators....maybe 30K btu which can warm most houses in the winter.  The problems of drawing too much power at start up is just using a variac until the water is warmed up.....maybe switching one on at a time....and if you pulse and reverse polarity on the power, maybe you can get down to 1 amp each, like Ironhead., which is very efficient for the amount of heat available. Keep trying

[Robb077]

Ironhead:
Beginning on the build.  Grainger has the good ceramic tips...Cummings has some, but not high grade.
I was thinking about your wire feed idea for the tungsten.  What if you had a ceramic plug coming up from the bottom to the 1/2 way point on the graco screen. The tungsten rod rested on this coming down from the top. Now if you put a weight on the tungsten rod that ensured when it burned away, it would move down to meet the ceramic plug, it might be self-feeding. Using 1/4 inch a week, the rod may last the entire season, with pulsing and reversing current. What is your idea on this?

[IronHead]

Sounds good   try it out.





Just Build it
IronHead

[keithturtle]

I'm in the middle of a new build, taking advantage of the glazed and fired green rod.

Mebbe I'm jes hung up on htat vid with the 120' partial perf field.

I fabricated a 360' field outa 304 perf plate, ~20ga and brazed it to 304 1/4 allthread.  The tungsten is centered in the cylinder, held in place by rubber washers crammed into a brass fitting set in a UHMW lid.

Concentricity set by torque on threaded rod.  Will fire it in a narrow vessel to see if I'm close.

If it works I'll post pics.

If it don't I'll post 'em anyway so y'all won't waste yer time, like me...

<twisted grin>

Turtle

[keithturtle]

WOO HOO!  The rascal works!

Pics and details later.

Turtle