Linnard?s hydrogen on demand system without electricity !

[ResinRat2]

Hi Everyone:

Airgen website (http://www.airgencorp.com/management_bios.html) is gone.

So is Airgen now history?

Keep an eye out for Linnard's name in the news.

Update: I have finished assembling the new reactor setup and am about to start leak testing. Once I have the unit up and running I will be posting pics.

Thanks for your interest.

[NssB]

Update: I have finished assembling the new reactor setup and am about to start leak testing. Once I have the unit up and running I will be posting pics.

Good news. Looking forward to the update as ever.


I was looking at how you could setup a timer based switching circuit cheaply and effectively using as little power as possible. The very common 555 timer (mosfet) uses tiny amounts of current to operate compared to a standard transistor. I don't have any direct experience of using/designing such circuits. However, I will attempt to design one and post up the plans. I guess from there, anyone else with electronic experience can modify/improve the design.

Again, the idea is to do it very cheaply and utilising as little of the generated power as possible. (no external input)


NssB


EDIT: I have found the following timer only requiring 0.9Vcc. (supply) - Also only has a 74 micro-amp dissipation when idle. If I can find a suitable relay, then setting up a small circuit on a breadboard should be very doable. I'll keep you posted.  (http://www.zetex.com/3.0/3-3-2b.asp?rid=112)

[enki09]

kinda sounds like a battery to me....lol

[NssB]

kinda sounds like a battery to me....lol

Well, not quite. Nothing is being stored. Some of the power coming from the cell will power a timer circuit. The whole circuit will act as a switch to enable the switching of the Zinc regeneration at preset intervals. With the Zetex IC in my last post, the supply voltage (i.e the power required from the Fuel Cell), should only need to be 0.9V to drive the circuit.


NssB

[enki09]

There are many configurations which are grouped under the term battery. Not all are "storage batteries" like the ones we are most familiar with. Not all are rechargeable either. If you define the production of energy through the effect of a chemical reaction as being a battery then you pretty much cover all types.

For example, if you take a strip of aluminum and a strip of stainless and suspend them both in a solution of water and sodium hydroxide and then connect the two with a wire you will notice something interesting. The aluminum will dissolve as it is attacked by the solution. As it dissolves hydrogen gas will bubble to the surface. At the same time you can measure a voltage and current between the aluminum and stainless electrodes. So you have to account for both the electrical energy produced by this battery as well as the potential energy represented by the hydrogen gas.

A battery that produces energy through chemical reaction is a primary cell and a battery that stores electricity through chemical action is a secondary cell. What you are talking about seems to be a variation on a primary cell.