Plasma Electrolysis by IronHead

[IronHead]

Hello
This all started in  MagDrive thread. I had know idea how much interest this would cause.
So here is the video that started it all .This plasma reactor is a heater and a heater only.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeTQW2pH2Oc

The first thing you should notice is this is not a white hot arc. I found that that type of arc is much to hot for my use.

Ok now,Just to start everyone out.
The  plasma system.
One 1/8 tungsten welding rod (Green Tip)Pure tungsten.
One 100 micron 316L stainless steel Paint sprayer Graco filter mesh 1"Dia  x 4"long.Make sure the rod is right in the center of the screen tube.Make all connection solid and arc outside the water will go BOOM.
Now on the Tungsten you must cover with Teflon(Good for last hours) or coat in ceramic (Preferred last for months) all of the rod except for about 1/2" at the tip arc end.
120AC rectified  and non smoothed. You get about 118vdc 120hz.Start up is 30 amps  final at high temp is from 1.0 to 0.1amps maintaining a stable arc.
115VAC full wave rectified is fine to work with.

This is a good start.
Now you will not see a reaction in this till you hear it start to vibrate at about 130*F
At 150F to 160F you will get your arc .This can take from 10 min to 1 hour depending on your water. use tap water.


This type of system has run for months ( Rod adjustment weekly at 24 hours a day)before rebuild. Using a radiator to keep temps at bay.150F to 200F  shut it off at 200 you have heat stored.

As a fully finished circulatory system heater  When it gets to 200*F it shuts off.The pump runs and circulates water through a tube in the floor . The pump shuts down when the cell drops to 100*F. This is all controlled by thermostat.




Just Build It
              Ironhead

[hartiberlin]

Is this filter mesh something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140093743494

??

Can you please post pictures of the device, before you operate it under water ?
Many thanks.

P.S: Why not the lightly radioactive Cerium doped red tip tungsten rods ?

[hartiberlin]

Is the stainless steel mesh around the Tungsten rod something like this ??

[hartiberlin]

P.S: Baking soda is not good,
cause it can release CO gas, which is very toxic !
Don?t breath it.
Better go with K2CO3.

The problem I had in my experiments with cold fusion is,
that it always burned up the Tungsten rods.
Maybe the green tip tungsten rods are better than my red tip ones ?

[hartiberlin]

Ironhead you say, when the right temperature is reached and the arc is burning
you still use about 0.1 to 1 Amp and at around 100 Volts this
is still about 10 to 100 Watts of input.

How much heat did you generate ?
You said in the youtube page,

"that the heat coming from the radiator core is
about 5 times greater than a 1000 watt 120vac room heater."

If this is true, that would be at least a factor 10 of more output
than input.
That would be really great if this could be replicated and verified !

Regards, Stefan.