HairBear wrote:
Use mirror finish stainless steel plates just like an electrolysis cell. Make sure you have the plates just far enough to stop arcing. A little buzzing is normal operation.
There is problem with that implementation. I tried that implementation before I use uninsulated over insulated wire.
1. Air do not have constant insulation property. Smoky / dirty air have different insulation property from clean air. Moving air have different insulation property from static air.
When I use air gap. I have to change potentiometer value because the air condition change or the battery voltage reduce. When the room is filled with cigarrete smokes I set the output high, when the smoke clear out the electrode spark so I have to adjust the potentiometer (or is it the opposite?, sorry, I already forgot). When the battery depleted, I have to adjust potentiometer again. A tiring job.
With insulation method I don't have to change potentiometer. I change potentiometer to change the amount of corona vs battery life.
I don't think you can use air gap method on a car without some sophisticated / complicated system. In a car, changing rpm would produce different air flow, it may be possible that an air gap that produce corona at high rpm will spark at low rpm that disable the corona. Or good corona at low rpm but nothing at high rpm because air impedance become too high. The air condition change too, humidity, air vapour, dirt varies a lot from places to places.
I think using air gap is impractical for car implementation.
2. Active surface is small. It is very hard to create more than one corona point with air gap. When you use many corona point it is very hard to set all to produce the same amount of corona. It is harder than very hard to make all flat / cylinder area surface to produce corona. It will be likely that you will end up one edge creating spark and terminate all corona. I think the precision need to be very very high adn the surface have to be very even without any sharp edge.
With insulation method, the electrode produce corona on a much larger area easily.
HairBear wrote:
The real trick is to make the gases positively charged by taking electrons away from the atoms. Whenever the mass of a combustible gas atom is decreased, thermal energy is increased during combustion. Thank you for your test data!
This corona method is different from high voltage without current resonant method. Corona require high voltage and some current. The amount of converted atoms is in proportion with the amount of corona.
While resonant method do not need current because it work in resonant frequency of atoms. The amount of converted atoms is in proportion with the accuracy of device frequency to resonant frequency.
However, I got the feeling that replicator end up consume more current using resonant method because it is harder to get resonant on varying environment. I never read power consumption anywhere but from the design posted with many component, it should be high.
I use around 12 watt at most for my corona method when I test it on my car, should be lower if properly tuned. Car should have no problem powering just this level of power. Should be interesting to compare this with hydroxy booster.