Ho Ho Hellow!
I have a test system together and bubbling to clean it out. It's made in the smack's style with 8 SS light switch plates (on sale for $0.89 each). I (ahem) used glued on cork gasket material to set the spacing at 1/8th inch and zip ties to hold it together. Then used SS bolts on the outside plates to wrap a wire on for power. The middle plates are all isolated and checked with an ohm meter as isolated. Sort of an experiment coupled with impatience. A cap full of drain cleaner powder mixed in 1/2 gal of water in an old juice jug. Power from a battery charger 2/10/50 buffered with a old trolling motor battery that won't hold charge.
(Note: don't use epoxy! The drain cleaner seems to dissolve it pretty fast and if floats to the top. Not pretty. So, I will order up some nylon rod fairly quick)
Ok, so I can put the plates into the juice jug and turn on the power. No bubbles at 2, 10 or 50 amp settings. Add the drain cleaner that is listed as NaOH and KOH and it starts to bubble.
Here's my questions.
Only the outside plates seem to have any bubbles. Also the inside plates are not turning color where the outside plates are turning dark. I thought that all the plates would bubble fairly equally. Am I wrong on that or did I make a goof up in the construction?
The liquid foams up pretty bad. Looks like a big mug of beer with a TV head of foam. Nice --> if it's a beer! Not so much for hho production. Any foam solutions or is that a result of the chemical used (draino)?
I set the battery charger at 2 amps and it bubbles pretty good (no measure of volume). BUT - It get's hot. I have a harbor freight 7 dollar IR temp sensor and that shows it at 179F. Actually, I have 2 of them and they are both within a couple tenths of a degree. I thought that it would not be so hot at lower amps. Oh, my fluke blew the internal fuse so I don't have a way to measure current until I get a new one.
Which side does the hydrogen come from, the + or the -? I was thinking to change the design to have 2x the surface area for the hydrogen side as it is producing 2x the gas. Dumb idea or should I be looking for the nobel prize for science in the mail?
Over night at 2 amps the liquid will drop about 2-3". That's not a ton of liquid, probably 12 oz. Is that normal?
I have room to mount a 6" PVC tube. Whats the best way to connect everything up electrically. It's probably obvious to most, but ...best to check!
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