SS plate thickness question

[cyrus]

I have an option to buy pretty thin SS sheets that would save me some money but i need to know if it will somehow heat the water more or limit how much power i can use.

Does it matter how thick the stainless steel plates are?

[vdubdipr]

yeah it matters, just don't go too much in either direction,,, i got .18 gauge in my cell currently and it does pretty good, the surface area/ power equation is allot more important, 2 amps per 2-4" of surface area and only 2 volts per cell... just think about how thinner stuff heats up faster but cools down faster, thicker metal will take more time to heat up and be harder to measure your "optimal" running temp because youll have to wait too long to do so.... just think alot about everything before you spend money, and how each factor will react to another, and you can do that by researching , its painstaking yes but you'll learn allot more and faster by reading other people years of experiments than you will asking one little question at a time .., hope this helps, before i spent any money i read for like 3-4 months on line and there is some really good info and some really bad but the more you read the better you'll be able to differentiate between the two