Mileage

I am getting to work less and less on this project. I can say that I am still having rather consistant results. I am sure that with the HHO booster on I get 20% increase in the city and up to 30% on the highway. Two weeks ago, I was loosing water out of the cell. It was due to a bad glue job on the bottom and was leaking right out. By adding water, I lowered my consentration of electrolite down to where it was barely producing gas, so I turned it off. After filling up my car, I drove approximately 150 miles of mixed highway and city. When I checked my mileage I got 25MPG without the booster. This is spot on with my previous mileage tests. Now with the booster fixed, I am getting my 30 MPG city and 40ish highway.
I have experimented a little with another, cheaper design. I can say that it drew alot higher amps then the current booster in the same concentration of electrolite, but I do not know if it had higher output. I will be playing with it as I find time, I will also be looking into ways of keeping the unit from freezing, as we are heading into winter.
Overall good results. Everyone should have one!

Posting for posting sake

I have gotten a little grief for not posting too often. The truth is that I have been very busy with things and have not had too much time to put into managing/refining my hydrogen cell. After building two more cells, i took a vacation and am just getting back to research and design of a semi-hassel-free hydroxy fuel cell. As I mentioned in an earlier post, a friend of mine has given me a PWM to experiment with. This is a very simple circuit, but should do the job in pulsing the juice into the cell. I am trying this to see if I can lower heat and possibly produce more gas. I do believe that I am past the prove it part of experimentation. I have successfully given my car a 20-40% increase in mileage.
I am now in the stage of making the system a hassel free system that will only need looked at every 300-500 miles. A few obsticals in my way include the nagging heat problem on the terminals and keeping the water level of the cell at a constant level automatically. I may have already solved the heat problem with larger wires and it is possible that the PWM will help also. And i am currently working on an auto refiller that will simply work on negative pressure from teh cell cooling down.
Here is the circuit for the PWM
now that i am working on the unit again, I will post as things happen. My latest mileage test was 40+ mpg highway.

Uploaded - Aug 9, 2008

Up until today I really haven't had too much to add to my progress. I took a much needed break from working on the unit. the booster continues to run too hot at the terminals and melts the lid of the booster. I am rebuilding my booster and will be using the old one until I have time to recunstruct the lid for the new unit. The picture is of a pulse width modifier. this device modifies the 12 v current going into the cell.I have also upgraded all my wires in my setup to double 12 guage twisted pairs. this should keep the amp draw down and keep the cell terminals cooler. a freind of mine built it from a schematic he found online. I will post the design when I get it.
I will be testing the pwm in the near future and hopefully have some results to post.

New fixes

I said we needed to work out the melting terminal problem that I mentioned in the previous post. It seems that our one terminal was getting too hot and we can only attribute this to our thin strap system suspending the plates from the lid. We decided to go with double the size and see if that helps. you can't really tell much from the picture buts its wider and twice as thick

This allows for more connection and less resistance on the terminal is should eliminate the problem.

I continue to see improvements in my MPGs. On a mix of 44 highway and 68 city, I achieved , 33mpg, roughly 30% gains in mileage. I will consider this one of my last "official tests" as I am getting tired of keeping track of mileage. I will be installing 2 units on a cummins diesel truck in the next few weeks and will show my progress on here.

Uploaded - Jul 12, 2008

I can now edit my blog from my phone which should make it a bit easier to post. I won't be posting without having anything interesting to say so this is just a test. I am still working out some bugs that we have come across in our design. this picture is one of these bugs.

Continuing results

I continue to see good results. I will be moving to put a cell on a different vehicle in the near future. I did run into a melting malfunction in the Positive terminal of the cell . It basically ruined the lid and I will try to post pictures later. I believe it was because of a bad connection and should not be a reoccurring problem. In the mean time , I will be working to put a few of our units together and possibly sell one to recuperate some of our costs.

Some unofficial results

At this stage of the game, i feel like i have a reliable unit that is really producing enough gas to make a difference in my mileage. I feel like I need to take better steps to improve my refueling procedure to ensure accurate readings. I don't want to mislead anyone in this whole thing. I call this unofficial results because I know that there were many variables that may have lead to me getting this reading. I filled my car up the exact same way as before at the same pump after driving 47 city miles I put 1.4 gallons of gas into my car. This figures down to 33.57 MPG CITY only. This comes after I my destributor cap replacement and running on HHO all week. I have to attribute some of these gains to the distributer, BUT even before the distributor went bad I never got over 26 MPG of highway/City. My city only reading before was 23.5. This is about a 42% increase in city mileage. Yeah i'm a little blown away by that myself.
I will be changing the way I fill up my car now. Full to the brim as far as possible should help and using the same pump when possible. I will also avoid filling up to early. The longer your run, the less a small amount of variable matters. I will be putting some heavy highway miles on this weekend and will post a "Highway only" reading for everyone. Then I will discipline myself to running close to a full tank through to get a mix highway/City reading. Keep in mind that I will not and have not changed my driving habits. These changes should give me more accurate readings. If technologies like this interest you, check this link. It is a collections of radio interviews from James Robey. He interviews many inventers, companies, etc. about their technologies. Including my favorite Bob Krupa and the Firestorm Spark Plug... http://www.blogtalkradio.com/search/water+fuel