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yikes · 09-30-2007, 01:24 AM

Just a little update. My car started "bucking" on the way home the other day. I was delighted. That means that I am now making enough H to cause me to go to the next step. yea.. The H is burning so fast at the spark that it is trying to stop the piston. My options are to reset ignition timing to 20 degrees AFTER TDC (which I cannot do as I am not producing enough H to run the car on) or simply reduce the concentration of NaOH in the water, which will lower the amps and will make less H and the problem will be gone. I am now at 6 lpm. So I will go back to 4 lpm. Until I get my next unit built. 80 plates.
I also need to hook a volt meter to the oxygen sensor while I drive to start collecting data so that I can hook a circuit like an effie to alter the signal.
I hope I am learning a lot from these tests.

09-30-2007, 01:24 AM	#28 (permalink)
yikes Cage Fighter Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Gnaw Bone, Indiana Posts: 230 Thanks: 2 Thanked 11 Times in 3 Posts iTrader Rating: (0/0% )	Just a little update. My car started "bucking" on the way home the other day. I was delighted. That means that I am now making enough H to cause me to go to the next step. yea.. The H is burning so fast at the spark that it is trying to stop the piston. My options are to reset ignition timing to 20 degrees AFTER TDC (which I cannot do as I am not producing enough H to run the car on) or simply reduce the concentration of NaOH in the water, which will lower the amps and will make less H and the problem will be gone. I am now at 6 lpm. So I will go back to 4 lpm. Until I get my next unit built. 80 plates. I also need to hook a volt meter to the oxygen sensor while I drive to start collecting data so that I can hook a circuit like an effie to alter the signal. I hope I am learning a lot from these tests.