My s1r9a9m9 replication!

[Super God]

I was looking over the circuit today and I was contemplating replacing the ignition side of the circuit (the side with the coil) with a high frequency current generator and the transformer with an air core transformer, much like in the original design.  That design seemed to work much better to the author of it, and he never mentioned misfires.  Maybe an opto-isolator for interface to the distributor coil.  The ignition coil would not be needed, the distributor could act like a rotary switch, triggering an transistor to turn on the hf current.  Just an idea.  The air core transformer could step up the volts to whatever value we desire.

[whizwheel]

Hi Folks,

I have been reading this thread as fast as I can for several days to try to catch up.  I don't like to jump in before I know what is going on in a thread.  I am on page 19 now and have also read the last two pages.

When you put water in the carb, it will plug some very fine holes inside it.  I have spent most of my life working on ice's.  When we suspected water in a carb, we would rev up the engine and hold the choke shut, if it was not efi, and keep the engine running so the vacuum from the engine would hopefully suck out the water or trash.

The best way I have found to get water from a fuel system is to add isopropyl alcohol.  The brand I liked best for water dispersant is "ISOHEET".  It is similar to "HEET" except it smells like rubbing alcohol.  If I remember right "HEET" is methanol, whereas "ISOHEET" is isopropyl alcohol.  That is the reason iso smells like rubbing alcohol.  The main difference between ISOHEET and rubbing alcohol is that rubbing alcohol has been watered down a lot already.

I watched a demonstration where they put about a teaspoon of water and gasoline in a bottle and put methanol in it and shook it and it didn't mix all that well.  Then they took another bottle the same amount of water with gasoline and put isoheet in it and shook it and the water completely blended with the gasoline.

I said all of that to say this, when you put water in the carb and then can't get the engine to run on gasoline again, try mixing isoheet with the water and gasoline mixture and see if that will clear the water out.

I also want to say my hat is off to all of you for the work you are doing and also for how you are all cooperating with each other on this project.  I have been following capacitor70 since I saw his first video.  And the rest of you all have good ideas and are good at carrying them all out.  I could mention each of you, but I have already took up too much space.

I am crippled and can't do much work, but when I get caught up with the reading, I may can come up with an idea or two that may help.

Thanks for all that you are doing, and someday, I will be able to say, "I knew these guys before they were famous for inventing the Plasma Fuel system."

whizwheel

[dhouse]

Hello everyone,
It's been a long while since I posted.  We got extremely busy with and now we have been able to get back at it.  We did build a 600v plasma system and was able to get it working on a gas lawnmower at idle using just gasoline, but the voltage was too high for our switch and we lost spark at the switch.  We are going to get a higher voltage switch and try it again and then see if we can increase the idle.

[rfsimoes]

Hi all

@provelless
I guess you are right about what you said but this is 1980 briggs & stratton. Excess fuel can go down a tube to the crank oil. I've seen that happen before...
This carb choke is a metal piece that goes in and out the carb and has direct contact with the fuel and some excess fuel comes out of the choke too.
I don't know what valve got stuck but my guess is that it was the intake. But it came loose with some heavy "bangs" on the engine.

Today I'm disappointed again.
That 50/50 mixture I so happily told you about was not that great of an acheavment.
I found out that with that even mixture, my engine can run on regular spark, without plasma...

With 40% alcohol 60% wather I could also run with regular spark. At idle only and opening and closing the choke.
Fuel was coming out the exaust because it was flooded.

Then I tried another 20cc of water making 33,33333333% of alcohol and 66,6666666% of water and with plasma I could not start that engine.

So for me, the conclusion is that this plasma cannot do nothing that a regular spark cant.
Well maybe a litle of cold start easiness but nothing furder...

I'm tired of this. No one was able to replicate capacitor70 results, not even himself has far has I know...
I guess I will stick here and watch you guys and see if I missed something here.
It was so simple. A bunch of diodes, a big capacitor and a 4 stroke engine. I have all of those and even added an adjustable spark timing.

@whizwheel
Your input was very important and valuable to me and I think to allot of us. For that, thank you

@Super God
Go for it...

Best of luck to you guys
I'll be here...
rfsimoes

[Super God]

There is some key aspect we are missing in order to implement this system properly.  There is more to it than just piggybacking 110 over high voltage it seems.  Could it be polarity?  The diode system works but the coil system seems to fail.  Why?  One user I recall gettin 4k rpm spikes from the coil system, maybe the tuning is the key.