Originally Posted by
BeaverRat
Thankyou very much! So as you could see in the video I have 4 hose barbs on the cell. 2 separate HHO Gas outlets that have their own holes in the reservoir and then 2 inlets which share a common output hole from the reservoir. I assume it is OK to just have one outlet from the reservoir and then T it off to the two sides of the cell. BTW everything is 1/4 hose barbs. I have a ton of extra shower pan liner gaskets, so I am going to double those up per gap to achieve a gap of .080 (1/12.5) inches. Is that a big enough gap? If not I will order 1/8th inch Nitrile rubber and try that out (What durometer should I order, 60?)
Again, thankyou HHOPWR, you have helped me tremedously to actually understand a bit about these drycells!
Showerpan liner is PVC. PVC especially thin stuff like shower pan liner softens very much even with just a little heat. Folks here have tried it over and over because it is inexpensive and readily available. It also seals very well. I hate to see you spend more money but shower pan liner will eventually soften and fail. Your cell will short out and leak. Then you will have a mucky mess. It will seem to work well for a while then leave you scratching your head and frustrated.
If it were me I would order 1/8th inch Nitrile and start over. 60 duro will work and is readily available. If available I would order something a little stiffer than 60 but it is not critical. Stiffer stuff will still seal but will help to maintain your gap. Maintaining your gap will give you a much higher ratio of water to gas in your cell. Most folks underestimate the importance of keeping good ion flow in the cell. Another advantage of wider gaps is that little imperfections in plate spacing will not cause such a huge imbalanced production problem. With very narrow gaps anything like even tightening one bolt more than another will cause plates to be closer on one corner than another. That causes that spot to draw an imbalanced amount of current. It lowers cell effeciency greatly.
There can be HUGE differences between identical cells in effeciency just due to little things that careful assembly can cure. Think about it. 1/2 an MMW is a 10% loss or gain in effeciency. In the real world 10% is HUGE.
Larry
Larry
2008 Nissan Frontier 4X4 Nismo. 12 MPG baseline with my normal commute and heavy stop and go daily driving. Generator installed and working on 3/29/2009
Up to 14.5 MPG with no enhancers. Still testing the effects of lots of HHO and no electronic enhancers.