We are getting close to doing capture tests on the new cell.  Below you’ll see a couple pictures of the cell and where we are at.  Today I am doing conditioning runs on the cell with a 5-10% Mixture of Distilled water and KOH.  When plugging the battery in the cells only pulled about .11A but after only 5 minutes they’d gotten up to 1.53A.  So far it looks like it works a lot like a capacitor in the sense that if I unplug the juice it continues to operate as if it still has power.  Other cells just stopped immediately when you unplug them.

The activity we’re seeing is not anything to write home about, however, my solution of KOH is very weak compared to what we are looking for.  We have around 1.9V per cell running off my 12V battery and charger.  At this point I’m not running off the truck as I don’t really care about anything staying consistent.  I’ve been told that the cells need to get conditioned so we’re going to go through that process first.  glenn_aircooled on the forum has built cells like this and according to his measurements he’s reported, the cell does get more productive the more he runs it.  As a result we’re going to do what he’s doing and hopefully see the same results.

I’ve never mixed KOH anywhere close to 5%, so the fact that we have huge 8″x8″ plates and are only seeing 1.56A is impressive, although the output is very weak at present.  I’m a little concerned that things are going to heat up quickly when i start to approach the 27% mixture that I’m headed for.  But we’ll see what happens.

Here are a few video clips you might find interesting.

Test-046 This video clip shows how I capture my gas volume for those interesting in trying to be consistent with our comparisons. 

Test-047 This clip shows the 4 cell unit setup and describes some of the tests and things captured.

Test-048 This video clip shows what happens when you add KOH to the solution with the 3 plate cell.

Test-049 This video shows the initial construction peices of the Series Capacitor Cell.

Test-050 Here is the new Series Capacitor Cell being conditioned with 5% KOH solution.

Test-051 Here is the new Series Capacitor Cell being conditioned with 10% KOH solution.

Test-052 Some final thoughts and a few extra tests that I thought were interesting on the Series Capacitor Cell.

Here is a picture of the cell inside the container I built.  The top is not sealed here but just sitting on the top to show what it will look like.

 

Here is a picture of the cell at work showing the bubbles on top with 5% solution.

Here is a picture of the cell at work showing the bubbles on top with 10% solution.

–glenn hancock