I’ve been talking to a few of you about this plate conditioning and I’ve come to the conclusion that it just doesn’t make sense.  The white residue on the plates that a few people talk about just has not formed on my plates despite all my efforts.  I’ve even let the device cook for over 8 hours using the DC timing circuit, again with no results. 

 Then after talking it through we got to thinking that it really doesn’t make sense.  The idea is that the bubbles cause the device to not produce as much hydrogen due to less surface area on the plates in direct contact with the water.  At first thought this would seem a likely scenario, but with later observations it just doesn’t seem to hold up.  All of my tests to date have flowed directly between the amount of amperage introduced into the water and the amount of hydrogen you get out. 

Using this observation one would have to conclude that less amperage = less hydrogen and that if it was observed that after a period of 5, 10, 100 minutes, the amperages started to decrease due to some unknown reason, and that it was observed on the plates small water bubbles then ok.  We could continue down the road to make the statment that we need to determine a way to get rid of the bubbles.  Or even that “hey, I noticed that with the white stuff on the plates, I get more amps and therefore more hydrogen.

However, I have never seen this happen.  Instead as the test goes on I get more and more current flow.  I’ve never seen the current go down or get less.  Therefore I have to reason that the current is still flowing, with or without the bubbles.  And also, despite the fact that there are bubbles on the plates, I’ve never seen the plates totally covered with them and they seem to pop on and off the plates.  Some sit for some time, some come and go.

I’m going to need to experiment a bit more on this fact as I may be wrong, but so far I have not observed anything to lead me to think these bubbles are hurting me and therefore it should not be necessary to condition the plates before operating the device.  This is a clever way to tell me my plates aren’t working like yours because I don’t have the white stuff but so far its just not chewing right.

I’ll keep experimenting and see if I can make sense of it or if I can disprove the theory…