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Hi.
I am afraid I have bad news.
I finished the cell, here is what it looked like:
I used distilled water and put as much salt in it as it could take until no more salt was dissolving in it. Then I poured that saltwater into the cell. Some hydrogen bubbles started to form even if the electrodes were not connected together. I connected the cells in series. First cell gave about 1V, each next cell gave about 20% more in the overall voltage, that is probably because of the common electrolyte. I could get about 2A of current in short circuit, then I though that if each new cell gives only slight increment of voltage, this must mean there is some current leaking inbetween cells, so I connected the electrodes of each cell together so that each cell works separately. This gave a bit better results in gydrogen production, but the production was still too small. It was so small that it even could not sustain a very small torch flame. I guess that if I put all that energy the pump used into a standard hho cell, I would have more hydrogen than the magnesium was producing. I let the cell work about 2h, but nothing changed, still small hydrogen production. If I pushed the lid of the cell down a bit, I could squeeze more hydrogen out for a small time and burn it in the torch, but this way I could sustain the flame only for few seconds. I think it is all because of the electrode surface area, I mean one magnesium rod has a surface area of about 160cm2 so the combined magnesium surface area is about 950cm2. To compare, one of my hho cell plates has a surface area of 300cm2, this means that overall magnesium surface area was about the same as three plates of my standard hho cell which are 15cmx20cm each. I think that I could sustain a small flame on the torch if the surface area was at least 3x bigger. So that's about that. Another thing is that in these 2 hours while the cell was running, a considerable amount of sediment was formed. I mean if that much sediment was formed creating so little h2, I can't imagine what size filter would you need for a cell that can run your car
See for yourself:
Thanks,
Jetijs
I am afraid I have bad news.
I finished the cell, here is what it looked like:
I used distilled water and put as much salt in it as it could take until no more salt was dissolving in it. Then I poured that saltwater into the cell. Some hydrogen bubbles started to form even if the electrodes were not connected together. I connected the cells in series. First cell gave about 1V, each next cell gave about 20% more in the overall voltage, that is probably because of the common electrolyte. I could get about 2A of current in short circuit, then I though that if each new cell gives only slight increment of voltage, this must mean there is some current leaking inbetween cells, so I connected the electrodes of each cell together so that each cell works separately. This gave a bit better results in gydrogen production, but the production was still too small. It was so small that it even could not sustain a very small torch flame. I guess that if I put all that energy the pump used into a standard hho cell, I would have more hydrogen than the magnesium was producing. I let the cell work about 2h, but nothing changed, still small hydrogen production. If I pushed the lid of the cell down a bit, I could squeeze more hydrogen out for a small time and burn it in the torch, but this way I could sustain the flame only for few seconds. I think it is all because of the electrode surface area, I mean one magnesium rod has a surface area of about 160cm2 so the combined magnesium surface area is about 950cm2. To compare, one of my hho cell plates has a surface area of 300cm2, this means that overall magnesium surface area was about the same as three plates of my standard hho cell which are 15cmx20cm each. I think that I could sustain a small flame on the torch if the surface area was at least 3x bigger. So that's about that. Another thing is that in these 2 hours while the cell was running, a considerable amount of sediment was formed. I mean if that much sediment was formed creating so little h2, I can't imagine what size filter would you need for a cell that can run your car
See for yourself:Thanks,
Jetijs
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