some thoughts ........please feel free to shoot me down as all us hho guys are told it cant be done ..and we are stupid .. especially the new guys
as example my thoughts
1/ we deal with gravity .. ok whats that mean, bubbles escaping like electricity go the route of least resistance ,,,, meaning if you have a 8x8 plate = area length x with x 2 = 128 area plate ...the bubbles have to travel from the bottom 7.9 inches or so from the bottom to get free of obstructions like other bubbles in there way ... now consider a plate on the horizontal 2 x32 x2 =128 the bubbles have to travel less ...than 2 inches or so to clear obstruction ..
we getting it yet ?
Ok so now we go on to plate spacing the closer you can get your plates the better the production ,= problem of re supply of electrolyte to plate area ..if you can not re supply you are dealing with a dry plate ,, we still thinking here
I looked at the picks posted of blackened areas on dry cells and people were saying its current loss hell its a dry area with all the bubbles trying to escape the plate in that area is dry ....we still thinking ?
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ok to re supply a 32 inch long plate in a dry cell is a big undertaking and easier to do with 8x8....... hope we still thinking here
that is why my thinking is wet cells are better for liquid resupply of electrolyte ok now we are going to get into current loss ...phewy were hho its brute force ...... ... now we have been playing with pwm,s to help but hell its not the way to go but better than nothing
My first test was with a inverter and i posted picks after 30 second intervals of a wet cell in
"plain" tap water in a bucket as its cold up here and i have no garage to work from so other than blowing my house up it was a short test as it scared the **** out of me .....at the amount of production ...from what i had been reading about ,, now look at these picks
http://www.hhoforums.com/showthread.php?t=2415
this is plain tap water and my plates are 3,625 x 8 and spacing is ,040 ok if you have been around this ..is this what ? fantastic yes it is , lol good thing we do a lot of diff things in hho ...
now my point after all this gibber is wet cells is the way to go and dc to dc inverters are mother fkrs for production and guys do not lock yourself up not yet .. we moving forward ...