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Old Aug 8, 2010 | 07:07 PM
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Wow, this is an old a$$ thread. lol. The guy who i was talking about in the start of this thread gave up on his hydrogen generator. they got it working, but couldn't generate enough to make any difference in his VW. He never got around to trying it on his PSD since he couldn't even supply enough for his VW TDI. Don't think i would mess around with trying hydrogen on my truck, just not worth the chance of something bad happening.
 
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Old Aug 8, 2010 | 11:24 PM
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I built a couple generators when this was all going on in the IDI thread.

After building a couple, looking at the power draw it takes to run the generator and the amount of gas generated, what I built is on the shelf collecting dust.

The problem is not that it is a bomb as long as you are not storing the gas.
It is not that the gas combines if you mix them.

The problem is, you can't make enough gas for the amount of air flow through a diesel.

Generate say 2 liters per minute.
Take a 7.3 at 3300 RPM = 12,045 liters per minute in displacement alone, never mind the turbo pressure more than doubling that amount.

So 12,045/2= 6022 to 1 for the air to HHO ratio.

The HHO winds up being a trace amount when you look at how much air you are shoving in the engine at high RPM's.

HHO sounds good.
If you could produce enough, it would work.
It is not hard to control.
As long as you consume it as fast as you produce it, the only danger is from the chemicals needed to make it, KOH or NaOH, which are both strong alkali's.

Stainless wire?
What was that for?

Here is a picture of my small generator, a two stage unit.



The big one was twice that size and again a two stage unit.

Those stainless plates are 2" wide, 1/8" thick and 18" long.
 
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