lead for electrodes in cell?

[DrakonSCJ]

not using a battery as a cell

[Etownlax]

Did you try it? if you did.. what happened?

or just didn't have a battery to try it with?

-Randy

[AlaskaStar]

DrakonSCJ:

not using a battery as a cell

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Well that made NO SENSE. not even a complete sentence, a question or anything.

ETownLAX:

I did try it, and the results were posted at the end of page one. it worked. LOADS of hydrogen were coming off. it worked very well. try reading posts. this prevents the repetitive cycle of the same information being posted repeatedly to answer redundant questions.


AlaskaStar

[Etownlax]

I understand AlaskaStar,

I did read your post. What I really wanted to know is if he did it or not. But I thought I was worth adding "what happened." He say's he's not using a battery as a cell. He doesn't say why. That's my way of asking why.

Yours worked because you were charging the battery. Thats what happens when you charge lead-acid batteries. But there are different possibilities as to what could happen. If you did it with a completely full battery then it prolly wouldn't have worked because the batteries charged voltage will finally get up to about 13.6v. A charger I believe would give out a 14.4 voltage. So if/when if got up to that point there is only a .8v difference. So my best guess is that you were doing it with a fairly dead battery or your acid was a very strong solution. Either way that could easilly account for the massive amount of hydrogen.

Please correct me if I am wrong though

-Randy

[AlaskaStar]

It was a 6 VOLT battery that being overcharged with 14.5 VOLTS, and about 350 AMPS. I at that time used the "Jumper Cable" method, and used a Clamp-on type amp meter.

so the hydrogen production was through the roof. try using a 3 volt cell and hitting it with 12 volts. imagine the possibilities.

the 6 volt battery was NEW, and had a full charge. The 12 volt source was a Ford Truck, and was running at 2K RPM's to keep the amperage up. the 6 volt cell produced so much hydrogen that in just a few minutes (less than 5) it was almost completely dry from the boiling action/ electrolysis.

much was learned from that poor old battery.

too bad the place I bought it from went out of business 10 years ago.

AlaskaStar

[Etownlax]

ok. haha.. I totally missed the part that it was a 6v battery. Yea I now see how 14v into 6v battery can do pretty well.

I'm sure that got real hot real fast. I wonder how much of it was just simply steam.

-Randy

[DrakonSCJ]