Originally Posted by
HHOJeeper
My dry cell of plates has 2 holes at opposite corners and I stacked them so they line up perfectly. Are you saying that it would be best if I alternated them? What is the reason for this? I dont understand what you mean by electrolyte shortening.
Electrolyte shorting, also know as voltage leakage, or current leakage.
well if you have, say, 14V at you want to divide into something like 2V with N plates, you still have 14V from the plate with the positive connection to the one with the negative connection. If there is a short path for this 14V to flow it will, at least some of it.
Shorting is also caused just by having any holes is a N plate at all. N plates have a + and a - side. Electricity will flow threw the hole just to go to the same plate.
Your cell would work better if you flipped half of your plates, but I can't say by how much.
If you do flip half of them water will not flow threw the cell as well, so it's a trade off.
Have you fired your cell up yet? If so a MMW number would show how much room for improvement your cell has.
I=V/R so R=V/I and V=I*R
P=V*I
(I=Amps, V=volts, P= power in watts, R=resistance in ohms)