Do neutral plates really produce any gas?

[hhonewbie]

It has been said that a wet or dry cell neutral plates produce gas(hydrogen and or oxygen)? or could this just be the HHO being produced from the anode/cathode circulating around the neutral plates?
If the neutral plates dont produce any hydrogen and or oxygen then should the neutral plate area be excluded thus leaving only the anode/cathode as total area of a cell? If this is the case then previous calculations of total area of cells are incorrect

[Philldpapill]

If each "section" of your cell is isolated, meaning no water acts as a conductor between cells, then the only path for electron flow is through the plate, into the water, back into the next plate, through water, to the next plate, and so on. The key is to keep the water isolated in each cell. In electrical terms, water is a better conductor than a water-conductor junction(where the water meets the metal plate).

When you have isolation, then one side of the neutral plate will produce oxygen, and the other side will produce hydrogen. You can't just apply a voltage between two plates, and through some pieces of metal into the water in between and expect those to bubble up gasses.

[hhonewbie]

If Neutral plates iscolated do produce hydrogen on one side and oxygen on the other at 2H to 1O do each N plate produce the same amount of HHO as the anode/cathode?,
or is HHO consistintly produced across the cell/gen?,
or are they really just to balance out voltage and heat transfer?,
or a balance of all these?

[IM2L844]

Yes, if there was no current leakage and no side reactions between plates, all the plates would produce exactly the same amounts of HHO relative to the amperage passing through them.

Neutral plates are not neutral at all. One side, the side on which the amperage is arriving, is negative and the other, the side on which the amperage is exiting the plate, is positive. The proper name for these plates are bipolar plates.

You'll find much more information from the scientific community if you google "bipolar plates" rather than if you google "neutral plates".