Originally Posted by elmerfud  That's right dufas, my friend did the same with a briggs stratton in the mid 1990's. He used the the bridge rectifier of of 240v mains (dangerous) with two carbon cores from D size batteries as electrodes. He got it working well, but after ten minutes of running he broke the rings as well.
We were going to revisit the idea, but in the light of having toxic sludge left over from the aluminium we have now looked at other ways of splitting hydrogen and storing it at low pressures. The 1100watt genset was sold and we are back to the drawing board. |
We never had much of a problem with 'gunk'. Stainless steel plates were used and distilled water was the H O source. There was some experimentation with hydrogen peroxide that worked well but cost analysis put it around $4.00 a gallon while gasoline only cost $0.18 a gallon at the time.