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

Back on track

Just to let everyone know, i have be feverishly working on building a new cell. With the help of a few others, was able to pull together all the parts needed to do just that. I have some pictures and videos just in case you don't believe me. All the parts were finally compiled on saturday where I spent at least 8 hours building a new cell and modifying my old unit. The new unit is a dual 8-cell in one bath design.(16 plates total) I will not take credit for the design as the plans came off the internet, but it is a fairly simple but very effective design. The plate arrangement is two series of cells like this...
arranged beside each other. Here is the finished cell beside my old cell...
The new cell also incorporates a bubbler (tube on the side with water in it) that keeps the gas from back firing into the engine. You can see the finished cell with bubbler here..

This unit achieves great production. I must say that the electrolyte (NaOH) makes all the difference in the world. When running just under 30 Amps, this unit produces very close to a liter per minute. I could have put a little more electrolyte to inch up production, but I would rather have it running reliably than pushing the limits on my fuse and relay. I decided to put my old cell into a new container (because of my crappy lid) and see how it compared in production with the new one. With the same PVC container I achieved exactly the same results as the new cell. I can only attribute this to the faulty lid on my old unit. It was leaking so much that it could not make enough pressure to bubble under water. This bubbler would not even have worked on my old design. Being air tight is very important to get the gas where it is supposed to go into the intake. So, Although my old unit is potentially working alot better in a new case, I will be running the new Cell in my car for the week to see if I can get better results.


Here you can see the bubbler churning away.

Here it is installed in the car.



Unfortunately this means we will have to wait and see if all the hard work will actually pay off in the end. I just replaced my distributor cap which can effect my mileage readings. I will have to drive a few days without the cell on to re-establish a base mpg average and then run with the new cell to confirm any gains. The production is now there, but is the result.

No Progress

For those of you anticipating some news of success or any news at all. I really have none. I am continuing to run on what little gas I am creating and hoping to get small gains here and there. I managed to blow out another 30 amp fuse when attempting to read my amp draw with a now apparent defective multimeter. It gave me zero reading and ruined my fuse. I put a 20 AMP fuse in and it was running no problem. SO this means that my unit is not actually running to its full capacity or it would be blowing that 20 AMP fuse no problem. I am waiting on a new amp meter so i can add electrolite to my water until I am close to the rated 30 AMP draw I am supposed to get. This should greatly increase my production. It helps to have the right equipment if you plan on doing this.
In other news, I will be attempting to build my own unit(S) in the coming weeks. I feel like I have seen enough of them and know enough about the process to try and construct my own that will put out better results.(over 1 li/min)

Frustration

I noticed my car was running quite erratically (almost stalling every time I stopped) so I went to check the cell last night and to show my neighbor. What do you know the middle node is unscrewed again. After removing the unit and reattaching it I hit the switch and .... Nothing. The 30AMP fuse is blown going directly to the cell. 

I don't really know if it happened because of the negative coming disconnected or my electrolite is too strong or what. I will have to get more fuses tonight. I already need to replace a bunch of them that I toasted trying to find out the short problem before. SO this unit that I thought looked very solid and well built is turning out to be a bit more maintenance than it should be. All results to this point are pretty much shot. I will attribute the very low idle of my engine to the EFIE. At least I think its working. Making the engine think it is running rich will lean it out even more and make the idle low. If any mileage gains exist, you could attribute them to that. Can you say NO POWER. 

I think the unit in the trunk would be a good idea.

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