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  • Precisely!

    [QUOTE=Allcanadian;85234]@rosco1

    So nobody aided you but you have admitted to "studying" the firestorm concept and "researching" plasma?

    **FireStorm is completely and utterly different to what we did, it bears no similarity whatsoever, so how can that be related to what we wound up eventually doing? I think you're quite off your head. You're sort of implying that just because I've used regular spark plugs in my engine over the course of time, that I must have "learned" something from this mere point.

    My FireStorm plugs were custom made to my very own specifications, so how did I copy someone else idea. My electrodes were completely different from the ones others were attempting to use, so again, I went an altogether route from the norm.

    Spark is to plasma as apples are to oranges. They are nothing alike, so anything learned of one, bears no relationship to what you find with the other. Plain fact!

    Do some hands on research for yourself to determine this. I'll caution this advice though, when you step over into plasma, you MUST set aside everything you thought you knew and start with a fresh palate, or else you'll not get far, as again, these are 2 completely different animals, and where you "think" you know what's going to happen, quite often you'll be disappointed when an altogether different result transpires.

    My plasma reasearch was all done inhouse, there was nothing really learned by browsing online, again, I urge you to point out where this material can be found online and please post the links here, for I'd sure like to see them.

    For the record, I've been running plasma every day for more than 1 year, probably closer to 2 years, with a variety of different ignitions as triggers, as well as different types of innovative spark plugs, some custom made and some off the shelf, even with the "Nascent Plug", so I think this qualifies me to make statements on plasma as I've simply been dealing with it on an every day basis, successfully, for a lot longer than most other people.

    Hey, I get people forwarded onto me by others, to sort out their plasma woes, and I always try to help out where I can, if I can.

    I never actually had access to the internet when the "Nascent Plug" manifested, it happens that when I was tasked with finding a suitable plasma plug solution, we were in the middle of shifting house, and I was offline for about 7 weeks when this design was devised.

    I can add that Moose53 was instrumental in bringing this design to life though, as his advanced machining skills were paramount in getting the design off the drawing board and into reality, thus, that is why we refer to our result as a collective success, we each had a part in it's making, so we can each take the credit for it. This is why you see I write the word "we" whenever I write about this stuff. We are a team, and we don't do anything without the express consent of the other members. Strange but true.


    Does all this studying and research of others work not constitute aid or does all the literature you have studied and researched to get to this point count for nothing?

    **Again, what "others" work, what "literature"? I went further with FireStorm than practically anyone else at the time, and my FireStorm plugs outlive even those of the actual inventor, at least that's what I've heard, so again, how can what I've learned from others be interpreted as being advantageous when my own efforts eclipsed the efforts of those others?

    Plasma is an altogether different animal, and again, try to do a little research for yourself on the subject, but don't be surprised when you learn that there's nothing much out there to study. You just have to do it for yourself sometimes, you can't just hope to flick open a web page and have all the answers jump out at you. Scoot into the local library and see if they have any books of worth, then let me know.

    You must first buy or build a suitable pressure chamber, to mimic the conditions found inside an actual combustion chamber, then you must test to see what happens when you make certain modifications to a plug, and fire it in the same conditions as we know to be apparent inside a working engine. You tell me how many people here are doing this.

    Open air firings are completely useless, and no data from these are valid, the tests must be conducted in actual real life conditions, under pressure. These facts escape most people and you'll note that most people here fire their plugs in open air, then later on, when they screw the plug into an engine and it fails, they don't have the slightest clue as to why. Testing, testing, testing, under real life conditions is the only way to learn.


    The problem is you think I am accusing you of copying or stealing something when I am not, this is called paranoia and relates to the fear I refered to in my last post.

    **Alas, re-read your 1st post, you have accused us of taking advantage of material that we did not discover and using it for ourselves, and you again seem to make the same claims again in this post, that's not paranoia, it's simply being able to read plain english.

    It does not gall me that you think nobody aided you in your discovery in any way, in fact just the opposite, I would call it sorrow that you believe this.

    **To be frank, I think you're dilusional, but that's beside the point. It obviously does gall you to think people can have fresh and innovative new ideas, so for that I can't apologise, for that's just the way it is.

    In any case what I think has no bearing on you or what you may have discovered and I wish you the best of luck.

    **Exactly, your opinion doesn't matter to us, but thank you for the encouragement anyway, if that's what you're really trying to impart.

    Look on this post as the last I'll make to you, accept it as a win for you if you like, you're the winner ok!

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    • Enough

      Rosco1,
      For the sake of everyone, and your valuable time. I beleive you if you say so. Besides, I think that your aproach has solved one key issue which is the erosion of the spark plug. No one else has posted anything about controlling the plume. Everyone is talking about copying "Firestorms". And, as far as I can tell your aproach ignites the fuel with more efficiency. Is that right?

      I guess you could say that we are asking "for free". But, I don't think of it that way. I think that everyone here can agree that a few members have made significant progress but may be headed in the wrong direction. Through sharing we all enjoy the insight to the posibilities. I think that the "Water Spark Plug" has some more to go before it's a viable arangement for the user. We all hope that a superior aproach can be attained.

      If you have made progress in preventing the wear of the plug. I am interested to at least understand the theory. If you have something that is patentable. By all means please submit a patent. At least publish something to help us who are interested in the solution. If you have "the" solution, we'd like to see it. If it can be made available I would consider buying something which I can use.

      I think I speak for many here. We do not want to see this go the way other "break throughs" which have gone, by the wayside. Either they were all hype, or some Government or Corporate entity squashed it. This is the thing that happend to GEET, Myer, and a host of others. We'd like to see something work.

      Thanks,
      Xack

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      • Xack.

        [QUOTE=Xack;85338]Rosco1,
        For the sake of everyone, and your valuable time. I beleive you if you say so. Besides, I think that your aproach has solved one key issue which is the erosion of the spark plug.


        **Correct, the Nascent Plug would likely provide indefinite service life if used with the most heavy duty of spark ignition systems, and while that may be the case, this plug was never designed to run with spark, hence there are far better spark plug designs around which will exploit spark in a much more practical way.

        As FireStorm is currently unavailable, I would advise anyone chasing a great spark plug to look no further than the Brisk Premium LGS plug.

        These are currently the best plugs available off the shelf. These work great with standard HEI ignition systems, right through to serious heavy duty CDI ignition systems. That's as far as they'll go though, for they cannot handle plasma at all. Expect a similar economy increase to FireStorm, roughly about 25%.


        No one else has posted anything about controlling the plume.

        **Controlling the plume is the only way to protect the plug itself from erosion/vaporization, for the design "projects" the plasma away from the firing points, in turn saving them from rapid damage.

        Everyone is talking about copying "Firestorms". And, as far as I can tell your aproach ignites the fuel with more efficiency. Is that right?

        **It's a horses for courses thing.

        We never designed our plug to operate with gasoline, it was purposely designed to operate in a hydrogen environment, so answering your question is difficult. Not sure how I'll go, but I'll give it a try.

        FireStorm is quite ok with gasoline using standard HEI, through to heavy duty CDI spark applications, and the electrodes we used have even proven themselves capable with low energy plasma(4.7uF), yet the earth/ground cages are not suited to plasma at all, and do erode at a faster rate with plasma than when you apply a heavy duty spark. Expect a safe 25% economy increase with these.

        Also, this design gives a greater tuning window, meaning that timing settings can be altered far more than is possible with any other plug we've ever tested.
        I'm a little pressed for time right now, so I can't really go right into it, but I have posted details of this previously throughout this thread, so maybe you can do a quick review to get more detailed information.

        An interesting point with the FireStrorm electrode, when made to our specifications, this has proven resilient to 4.7uF plasma, yet the similar material used in the Brisk Premium LGS plug erodes far more rapidly with 4.7uF. I believe this is solely related to a poorer quality(purity) issue within the electrode materials manufacturing process on that plug, thus I'm still awaiting more detailed information on this from Brisk R&D.

        Note, my FireStorms have done about 20,000klm under adverse testing conditions, with 4.7uF plasma, and they're still going today, in fact I still use these plugs in my daily driver, and have done so for well over 1 year now.
        The Brisk Premium LGS plugs only lasted about 1200klm @4.7uF, before they perished.

        I can't really comment further on precisely what else the Nascent Plug and our ignition system does, other than to say it's a critical part of the overall system.


        I guess you could say that we are asking "for free". But, I don't think of it that way. I think that everyone here can agree that a few members have made significant progress but may be headed in the wrong direction. Through sharing we all enjoy the insight to the posibilities. I think that the "Water Spark Plug" has some more to go before it's a viable arangement for the user. We all hope that a superior aproach can be attained.

        If you have made progress in preventing the wear of the plug. I am interested to at least understand the theory.

        **Normal spark plugs are only designed to run with spark, hence the materials selected for their manufacture, thus the wear rates are directly attributed to the materials they're made from. Providing you keep within the ranges of what these materials are able to cope with, you'll be fine.

        Plasma is an altogether different situation, for a high energy plasma (at the levels we're employing), will instantly vaporize diamond, melt tungsten, and destroy anything currently known to mankind. Thus, we designed the Nascent Plug to specifically operate in such a way as to "model" the plasma into a useable form.

        If you look back at the image I posted earlier in this thread, you can see that the "modelled" plasma plume is "ejecting" away from the firing points in a controlled "plasma jet plume". We needed to get the plasma to do this in order to keep it from rapidly vaporizing the plug base, roof of combustion chamber, and potentially the edges of the intake and exhaust valves.

        A common "golf ball" shaped plasma will cause some or even all of the abovementioned damage potentials, and the lifespan of a plug doing that will be greatly limited.


        If you have something that is patentable. By all means please submit a patent.

        **We are currently working on this.

        At least publish something to help us who are interested in the solution. If you have "the" solution, we'd like to see it. If it can be made available I would consider buying something which I can use.

        I think I speak for many here. We do not want to see this go the way other "break throughs" which have gone, by the wayside. Either they were all hype, or some Government or Corporate entity squashed it. This is the thing that happend to GEET, Myer, and a host of others. We'd like to see something work.

        **Careful thought needs to be given to all the points you mention, as well as several others you haven't noted.

        We are currently looking at the best practical solution for getting this stuff out there to whoever wishes to use it, however, we do have to give the most careful of considerations as to just how we go about it, for we didn't come this far, only to fumble the ball just before we cross the try line(Rugby term).

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        • If you've modeled the plasma plume to be ejected away from the plug to save the plug from damage, what is that directed plume doing to the materials in your combustion chamber(s) over time? Are users going to experience engine wear issues on a more frequent basis?

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          • Your Plasma Plume and tuneable plugs.

            Rosco:

            I've been watching this forum for some time now and I've been very impressed with the research I've seen from Rosco1 and his group.

            Thinking just a wee bit out of the box, my take on his research is:
            If one were to take a standard non resistor plug and and pull the electrode back into the tube, will it send a plume out the end when using a 4700 plasma unit. It seems that this idea might be tuneable depending upon how much the electrode is adjusted in the tube.

            Keeping it simple and hoping/assuming this is possible, will this plasma plume be enough to ignite water mist in an ICE?

            I suggest that Rosco's group keep up the good work, as it is very much appreciated by a lot of us.

            Peace to all,
            Jim

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            • Altered states...

              Originally posted by jimaerso View Post
              Rosco:

              I've been watching this forum for some time now and I've been very impressed with the research I've seen from Rosco1 and his group.

              Thinking just a wee bit out of the box, my take on his research is:
              If one were to take a standard non resistor plug and and pull the electrode back into the tube, will it send a plume out the end when using a 4700 plasma unit. It seems that this idea might be tuneable depending upon how much the electrode is adjusted in the tube.

              Keeping it simple and hoping/assuming this is possible, will this plasma plume be enough to ignite water mist in an ICE?

              I suggest that Rosco's group keep up the good work, as it is very much appreciated by a lot of us.

              Peace to all,
              Jim
              Hi Jim,

              Unfortunately it's nowhere near as simple as that, though we also wish it were, for it would have saved us a lot of hassle!

              We already knew we'd have issues with the materials used to make a standard plug, thus we were left with no option other than to design and engineer a completely new plug, from scratch.

              I'll try to briefly explain why a shortened electrode is futile.

              Under compression, spark/plasma delivered through a shortened electrode will more often than not completely ignore the "path of least resistance" rule.

              What happens is, the spark/plasma will often "invert" and hug the center electrode ceramic, finding ground deep within the plug shell/base. This phenomena is interesting as it's not often you get to see a spark/plasma ignoring a nice close proximity ground, and opting to take a longer route.

              Besides that, 4.7uF isn't enough energy, thus once you start applying the higher energy levels required, you only exacerbate the erosion/vaporisation issues. Think of damage to the plug base, roof of combustion chamber etc....

              Aslo if you shorten the electrode and then apply higher plasma energy levels, you'll only vaporise the center electrode ceramic too.

              There are simply no other plugs on the market, designed to do what's required, and this is why we developed the Nascent Plug.

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              • Ideas on getting it out.

                Rosco1,
                Can you offer a confidentiality release which a user can sign in order to agree that they will not disclose or use named information in a way outside of prescribed agreement?

                The device is hidden inside your cumbustion chambers. So it's easy to keep secret. The only visible items would be the plasma generator device(s).

                I would be happy to abide by such conditions in order to try this technology on my Ford 460 which gets horrible gas mileage. It's carburated so there is no fuel control to over compensate for lower emissions. Also, I was wondering if you could put water in your gas tank and run it just like gasoline with possible exception of timing adjustments. Perhaps water and alcohol mix...?

                Thanks,
                Xack

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                • Originally posted by rosco1 View Post
                  Correct, you will only get a "golf ball" shaped plasma by doing it that way.

                  By simply removing the earth strap, the spark/plasma will then do its work from the side area of the electrode, not the top, so you are rewarded with a radial firing potential, meaning the spark/plasma can now use a far greater electrode area, that being the entire circumference of the electrode(360 degree).

                  This is beneficial when the ionisation effect is considered, as it gives more free electrode area to work with, resulting in less missfires perhaps.

                  The real problem with taking this approach is still in the physical limitations of the materials used to construct the common spark plug. These materials are not designed to cope with the plasma energies you will be applying, so you must accept that rapid plug consumption will be a fact of life if you go about it that way.
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                  adding 2 magnets like this experiment ?

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                  • Plasma Plume and tuneable plugs.

                    Rosco1:

                    1st of all, thank you. I really appraciate your consise reply.

                    I'm hopful we don't have very long to wait to purchase or be able to copy your newly designed spark plugs and plasma spark generator.

                    Please keep us informed about our possible future in driving our cars fueled with water.

                    Sincerely sending peace to all,

                    Jim

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                    • Waste Spark "Elimination"

                      Originally posted by TRON View Post
                      When you have a 4 stroke engine and a sensor on the crankshaft telling the computer when to fire AND most modern engines share an ignition coil...so a spark is sent on every crank revolution while cylinder #1 is on fire stroke , Cyl #2 is on exhause. Since the coil shares two wires( the coil sits right above the spark plugs, for an 8 cyl engine there could be 4 coils firing) one signal is used for power stroke and the other Spark is wasted... but on the next 360 degree rotation the two spark plugs will fire on the single coil except this time the other spark is wasted... does that help... this is just a function of economical design....but presents a REAL DANGER when theres hydrogen gas lying around in a SHARED manifold... usually these kinds of shared spark/coil arrangements are used with injectors of atomized gasoline so there is no danger of igniting a mixture in a shared manifold (because the cyl. with the waste spark usually has its intake opening while its exhaust is just closing...the vaccuumm stroke)

                      This is also how many 4 stroke single cylinder lawnmower engines are designed...there are 4 strokes, one plug and instead of a spark for every 2 revolutions (like a car with a distributor) theres a hall effect sensor that fires the magneto/coil on every revolution... thus the term "waste Spark"

                      Finding a lawnmower engine that is 4 stroke and has a geared distributor or some electronics that bypass every other crank rotation is near impossible... they dont exist at home depot!

                      But the beauty of stans taper resonant plug/injector is that the electronic delivery valve controls the amount of fuel and the timing of the pulse so, it could work with one of these laenmowers or an electric generator for free electricity... just set up a garden hose with a toilet tank float as a water reserviour and run the stan meyer system on a 4 stroke 20 HP engine turning a generator to power your home for REAL CHEAP... tell the power company to %&$ OFF !

                      Originally posted by nvisser
                      Hi There
                      I build and tried Les Banki`s waste spark elimination and spark retarding circuit
                      from the waterfuelforall forum.
                      I found that it works if you can get the generator to start. The problem as I see it is that at very low revolutions while you start it, the spark does not appear at the correct time and it is very difficult to start. You also get a lot a backfiring while you adjust the timing ,while you try to start it which can be fatal when using hydrogen.
                      I thought about this a lot and decided that we need a reference pulse from the magneto so the spark can be adjusted to appear at the correct time even when starting.
                      The idea is to use Les`s idea of a magnet and a hall switch and put the magnet on the inlet rocker and let the magnet trigger the hall switch at the end of the intake stroke when the rocker is in the top position again. That pulse is fed into a monostable 555 timer circuit who’s output goes high till it gets reset again.
                      The second reference pulse comes from the normal magneto which normally happens about 10 deg. BTDC on the compression and exhaust strokes.
                      These 2 pulses than goes into a and gate which output will only go high when both inputs are high. That means it will only go high on the correct ign. Pulse. During the waste pulse the second input will be low.
                      When the and gate o/p goes high it resets the first 555 output to a low. It also triggers a second monostable 555 which o/p time can be adjusted to the desired retarding of the pulse for H2 ignition.
                      The last 555 is also a monostable which gives the short pulse to trigger the CDI circuit and coil.
                      Les Banki`s cdi circuit will work brilliant there.
                      I would like it if some of you electronic guys can look at this idea and let me know what they think.
                      http://www.energeticforum.com/attach...r-retarder.jpg


                      Interesting solution to starting small “waste spark” engines during experimentation.
                      Al

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                      • Exploding battery

                        Hi all. Yesterday i was testing my nexus plasma arc. The circuit making good plasma arc. Im using 300watt 12v to 240v inverter. A bridge rectifier diode, and 22uF 450v capacitor in series. The hot wire connected to a isolation transformer, thats my old 12v to 240v transformer and connected only at the 12v side. The spark was good and loud. I disconnected the transformer and changed it to an inductor. A 33T conductor with a magnet bar as core. The spark become louder and bigger. But after 3 minutes the battery exploded infront of my face. Just before the explosion, my volt meter shows that the battery was charged with high voltage. Almost 199 volt. I was surprised and tried to disconnected the input but i getting an hard electric shock twice and its to late. Explosion accurs few second after i disconnected the 12v battery. I escaped with no injuries. Very very lucky. The explosion damaged the battery open up the battery lid. Is that critical to connected the hot wire to the engine ground? I think i done it wrong because i not connected the hot wire to the engine but only to the spark plug and the spark plug not connected to the car accept the no 4 spark plug wire from the distributor. How to check that the inverter was fully isolated. I still wanted to make this circuit fully running in my car.

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                        • Hi topangler81.
                          I am glad you did not get hurt, Can you draw a schematic on how you had everything connected just before the explosion?
                          It's better to wear off by working than to rust by doing nothing.

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                          • be safe

                            Glad you didn't get hurt.

                            I hope everyone uses safety glasses and other precautions!
                            Sincerely,
                            Aaron Murakami

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                            • Originally posted by Jetijs View Post
                              Hi topangler81.
                              I am glad you did not get hurt, Can you draw a schematic on how you had everything connected just before the explosion?
                              here is my schematic.

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                              • don't see anything
                                It's better to wear off by working than to rust by doing nothing.

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