Through friends that are following along with what I’m doing, I received a link to http://www.waterpoweredcar.com/, which contained quite a few interesting articles.  Despite the fact that the person who wrote most of them seems a little eccentric with some of his comments, he is the only person that has mentioned a small fact that I’ve found necessary for any experiment of this type.  This is the use of HKO or some other electrolyte in the process.  I have found in my experiments so far, that it at least seems unreasonable to expect to get too much Hydrogen out of water alone without adding something to it.  The electricity just doesn’t flow.

 

So, I am borrowing from his design and attempting to build what he describes to see what we end up with.  His design is actually quite interesting and takes care of something I’ve been considering myself, but haven’t done it due to what I thought would be extreme amperage requirements.  However, since he says it works I’m going to give it a shot. 

You can review his site for more info and I’ll be putting up videos soon.  I finished the assembly of the plates (which are stainless light switch covers purchased from Home Depot) and 1/4? Threaded Rod last night.  The design calls for the plates to be attached to two Rods where one Rod is our Cathode and the other our Anode.  The plates are situated so that every other plate touches only one or the other rod so that they are arranged in a -+-+-+- arrangement.  I’ll explain it further in the videos that I’ll probably begin later tonight or tomorrow. 

The reason I’ve put this type of test off for so long is that the closer I put two electrodes in this solution, the more electricity flow we end up with and the hotter the water becomes.  I’m expecting this solution to almost boil the water but maybe not.  I’m building a little larger container than he called for which means we’ll also have more water. 

Another statement that he made which I’ve already figured out here is that a 3% solution of HKO (Potassium Hydroxide) is the best mixture.  He did mention something else that I didn’t know however, and that is that once the HKO is added to the container, there is no further need to add any more because it does not evaporate or break down with the hydrogen.  According to him it stays in the vessel and remixes with fresh water that is added. 

Here is a link to the basic design idea.  He also calls for a blow port that basically brings air in from the exhaust manifold but I’m going to put that off until after I see what the original tests show. http://waterpoweredcar.com/images/hydrobooster.pdf
Stay tuned for test setup and final testing videos to be uploaded soon.