Well, I’ll let you guys decide, but tonight I did a few extra things.  One thing I did was I hooked up the battery charger to see what effect it would have on the tests.  The battery is pretty full on its own, but as mentioned earlier the charger itself introduces some AC type current into the cell and I wanted to see if it effected anything, since all my earlier tests with the plates were done with the charger running.  Tomorrow I plan to actually hook it to my truck to see what effect the alternator has on the system, as I suspect its going to be a little more notable.

Tonight the main object of the test was to see how the cell performed when positioned as I designed it, and positioned upside down where the plexy plate is at the bottom of the cell instead of the top.  I’ve video taped everything and actually have a short clip of side by side comparisons between the two tests.  I honestly think the cell performs a good bit better with the plexy at the bottom of the tank, and may start performing all my tests with it in this position.  But I’ll wait to hear from some of you and your opinions.

Another thing I did in the first video clip is I filmed the cell running from the bottom.  This new cell container I built is proving to be very valuable, allowing me to film at angles not available before.  The main goal was set in motion when I noticed that another experimenter (Ron) had put plugs in his center anodes.  When asked why, he supplied me pictures of the before and after, and its actually quite impressive.  He told me that the thing that made him do this to begin with, was he saw the bubbles flowing down inside the tube.  As you’ll see from this clip, there is no flow inside my center anode tubes, but as soon as I figure out a clean way to plug my cell I’m going to test that as well.

Test-027: This test shows the cell upright and upside down as well as shots from the bottom of the cell looking up through it as it runs.

Test-028: This is a side by side comparison between right side up and upside down to help see the difference.

One note that I’m still trying to figure out from Ron, is that I think he’s running his tests with tap water which has a lot of extra chemicals in it and would increase his current flow compared to my well water.  As soon as I hear back on that I’ll let everyone know, but it would be like me adding a little KOH to my cell which would increase flow, but also temperature and everything that goes with it.  It would at least explain why his smaller cell is out performing my larger one which in concept should not be possible if we were both doing the same things.  And there has to be something turning his water so nasty so quickly.

See the forum under Finished Projects for updated pictures of Ron’s tests.