Submerged Cell Project Project Page 12

Here is a pic of the 7 plates sand-blasted and assembled. Each set of plates have two washers separating them, one stainless thin washer and an acetal thin washer. I forgot to take a measurement between the plates so I'll try to remember to do that tomorrow.

I did do a initial test with this setup and was more than pleasently surprised! Yeah, yeah, I just couldn't wait to see some results for all my hard work.

Anyways, I started by just putting the plates in the tank on top of my plexi piece on the bottom and applying power to them. WOW!!! There was way more prodocution than I was expecting from just plain water. I had my digital battery charger hooked up to it so that I could get some sort of idea for that. It showed 2.4 amps on the 2 amp setting.

Then I got greedy and added some NaOH into it. I only added maybe a teaspoon, but still it went crazy for the size of tank I have. I didn't add any more than that, but I did change the setting on the battery charger to see if it was pulling more than what the charger was showing. Now when I looked at the charger now it said 2.8/2.7 on the 2 amp setting. Of course I'm thinkin, "hmmm...why is it pulling more than what it is set on?" So go me, lol, I set it on the 10amp setting and it's pulling 10.8/11amps. I'm still thinking the same thing and up it to the 25 amp setting and it's pulling 25.8 too!

LOL needless to say there were a couple LOUD BOOMS!!! And that was only because I would disconnect the power from the electrodes(which was right above the water-not smart, lol) and the spark from the power being disconnected would ignite the gas right at the top of the tank. I didn't take any pics of the tank boiling away since I saw it producing way more than I expected, so I was concerned about leaving it on too long.

I will try again later with the camera to get still shots and also with the video camera to show how much it is going. This will all be outside of course, instead of in the trailer. I will be trying to get the lid finished up with the power connection pass-throughs in and the pipes welded in for the gas outlet and the water inlet.