Electrolysis Project Page 13

The voltage 120 x .847 amps = almost exactly 100 watts of power. Not too shabby for my first time firing this baby up. I will break out the oscilloscope in a day or so and go to work with frequencies. I will of course, need to dump the rectified current into a big capacitor first and then use a power transistor to amplify the waves from the frequency generator that I have. But that is another day :) For now I am extremely happy with the results of this evening.

My cell does not appear to be leaking at all so that makes me very happy. I have put it on the floor for tonight just in case it leaks overnight. I am not sure what the sodium hydroxide (Red Devil Lye) will do to the plexi-glass over time, but I will undoubtedly find out soon enough :)

I am very pleased with this evening and look forward to the next step. By the way ...I did this in the basement, but never allowed the gas production to go on for more than 60 - 120 seconds at a time. I didn't want to build up a lot of gas in my enclosed basement, as I am sure you can appreciate. Next time I may try 4 or even 5 teaspoons of lye in the mixture, I seemed to be a bit under-powered, but not much. I could be very wrong, but I imagine this cell will draw well over 10 amps at 120 volts when it is near its maximum. I don't really want to get over 2 amps but we'll just have to see where things go from here. I'm in new teritory so anything can happen.

I need to come up with a good bubbler and make another torch or something so that I can burn the gas as I am producing it; that way I do not have to worry about explosions. I think I have a very good idea for a bubbler, I will see if it works as I plan. Pictures will all be posted as I do the stuff so stay tuned!

You are looking at my new bubbler. This is going to keep me from blowing up my electrolyzer. If the flame were to reach the box, there would be a relatively large amount of hydrogen in there and it would be very bad. Plus I would have to build a whole new box :( The bubbler places water between the working end of the hydrogen application and the generator itself. I am dubbing this little bubbler the "Ghetto Bubbler" since it is nothing more than a water bottle :) Very cheap but very effective!