General FAQ type discussion...
Whomever is a mod, how about someone throw up a set of standard questions that should be answered when posting about their setup. For example...
1) Type of cell (wet or dry)
2) Volts you're throwing at it.
3) Number of plates (with the appropriate -NNN+ type of nomenclature) or tubes or what ever you're using with a valid description of some sort. Please don't just tell us you used two tubes... how long, OD and ID of each tube, what material, and so forth.
4) Plate effective area for dry cells or just plate area for wet or some dimensions...
5) Electrolyte being used and some way of specifying the solution mix (ie - 1 table spoon per gallon of distilled water or some such...)
6) Amps being consumed
7) Gas being produced with some description of how you're determining flow.
8) Plate Spacing and how you're accomplishing it... nylon washers, zip ties with the heads cut off, or what not.
9) What kind of power supply? (battery charger, alternator, squirrels running on a treadmill)
Basically any information someone else would need to duplicate your results... yeah, I'm an engineer type.Because if you or someone else can't reproduce your results then it's pretty much worthless.
Pictures and YouTube videos are great as long as they are still there. I'm finding lots of dead links!
As a noob here digging for nuggets of wisdom it's very difficult to discern what's what...
A few definitions I've had to search for... (and please correct me if I'm wrong!)
MMW = Milliliters per Minuit per Watt
LPM = Liters Per Min
Wet Cell = A unit where the electrode assembly is simply lowered into a container of electrolyte solution.
Dry Cell = A unit where the electrode assembly plates have the sides sealed so the electrical current is forced to go through the plates (there is no path for the current to go around neutral plates as if the unit was sitting in a open bath of electrolyte and water)
Not trying to be difficult, but just trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.
Thanks,
Chad
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