I’m starting to find that I’m going to have to possibly retract a few of my earlier statements concerning the water and the conditioning of the plates.  Without changing anything except for putting tap water instead of well water and cleaning out my test cell so that I could video tape a clearer image, it appears the cell is starting to perform better and better.

Here is a short video of clear tap water. 12.6V battery with no charging system hooked up and no timing circuit.  A little over 4A of juice and what does it remind you of?  In fact, I’m starting to now question the actual output of Myer’s and Dave Lawton’s cells.  I have not started capping and measuring mine yet but dang if the video doesn’t look pretty close to what they showed.

Test 030: Video of new cell G02 in fresh tap water hooked to straight DC without Pulsing circuit.

And of course we have to finish off this post with a few less impressive posts.  Again, you will see a big difference from the above posted video and these which were run hours earlier.  The cell seems to be getting more productive as time goes on.  I did however notice a problem.  The longer the cell operates the hotter it gets.  Nothing too bad, but it does get warmer.  And the warmer it gets the more conductive the water and the more Amps run through it.  And as this goes on you end up with a runaway current. Something I’ve seen many times with KOH but it appears its going to be an issue here as well.

Test 029: This video shows the nasty foam on top of the water. 

I did notice after cleaning my cell up that the stainless wire I’m using to connect my cell electrically are rusting a little bit.  So I’m going to have to replace them and I’m not sure if its actually the reason for all the foam or not.  Not thinking so but we’ll have to wait and see.

Test 029.5: This video shows what things look like after the cell has stopped running.  The foam goes away on its own and the water is an orange color.  Entire cell coated with a slimmy substance.

After letting the cell run for another hour in the tap water, I video taped what the top of the water looks like again.  You’ll notice that the water is clearer than before and we only have slight foam formations in the very corners of the cell.  Also notice that the bubble formations on top of the water are more better and much larger than anything we’ve seen before so it does appear the cell is improving with time.

Test 031: Cell G2 after running for 1 hour in clean tap water.  Would you drink it?

Test 032: Cell G2 after running for 2 hours in tap water.  Cleaning out after this test and starting over again to see if we get less foam on 3rd 2 hour run.

–glenn hancock