[Duke of Earl]

Well first of about the Hydrogen generator, I haven't hooked either one of them up to a vehicle yet, I am still experimenting with a few thing on them. I have to come up with a way of cooling the water down, when I really throw the power to it it starts boiling in a couple of minutes. I know it only takes 1.40 volts to actually get it to break apart the molecules, but then you always get limited production, about 1.75 lpm to 2.25 lpm unless you throw more power to it. I have several stainless steel heater coils out of two cars, I plan on running the water thru them, the natural air flow should keep it down to less than boiling. I put 36 volts of dc to my tubed unit and I got more gas than I could measure, the wires running to the unit flamed out and I had to stop but I know the two liter bottle was filled within about 15 seconds. The tube unit is built inside of 18 inches of 3" pvc, the tubes are in sessions, 2 3/4 o.d. 1/8" space 2 5/8 o.d. and so on down to the center tube which is 1/2 o.d. the spaceing is not exactly constant, it is a real job hand forming stainless into tubes using a vice, and asorted pcs. of pipe and other cold roll rounds rods and shorts. It took about two weeks hammering the things out, I am disabled so I have nothing but time and very little money so I spend the time. You may wonder where I got the stainless steel? Went to Wal-Mart, bought a couple sets of those stainless steel deep cooking pots, they are about 30 ga. The tubes are twice negatives than positives, can't remember just how many there are right now and it is too cold to go out side now to open it up and count but I think there is about 9 in all. I use plain water with about 1/10 tea spoon of soap makers lie. Any more than that and it shorts out the power source. I have ran it strait of the six, six volt batteries, and strait off of a 6 1/2 honda running a 14.5 GM alternator. The other unit is made of four hundred stainless steel wires all 16" long streached between two plastic pcs. with 400 holes drilled in each with two spacer pcs. at 1/3 intervals, these wires are all wired positive negative neutral, in that order, I have tested this twice, I can not add any lye to the water at all or else it shorts out the power supply. With just one 12 volt battery I get 1.50 lpm gas outta it. Haven't pushed it any harder yet, it took me two weeks to build it and don't want to short it out. I will use one of these 36 volt controller for it plush a pulse generator. Not that I am convinced that the pulse does anything at all but so many other Browns gas builders say that a pulse with modulator is the way to go, Who knows. I used the one generator and built a torch to see what kind of heat it would generate, I know stainless steel is like cutting butter, and it will melt concrete, that is as far as I got and something happened to the flash back valve and I blew my self outta the front door of my shop. After all the neighbors came running to see if I was ok, it was funny as heck, I couldn't hear a thing they were saying but they were scared I had killed my stupid butt, took about four hours before my hearing came back to normal, well actually my ears are still ringing and it was in August that I did that.
I intend on putting the tubed generator on my old 1948 Chevy truck to see what it does for gas milleage, because it has no computer to mess with, just old time points and a single barrel carburator, and enough room under the hood to put six or seven of the generators in there if I wanted to, plenty of room to add a couple of extra alternators also, of course I will use a one of these Curtis controllers to limit how much power actually goes to the generators.
Thanks for all the info on the controllers and the heads up on the problems I will face with the MR2 conversion. I have studied one page from a guy in california who used an MR2, he put 96 volts worth of batterys in that litttle car, I guess I could go that high but then these curtis controllers pretty much will have to be used for other projects, I got them for a song on E-Bay any way.
Like I say I am new to this stuff, but I am disabled now and have plenty of time on my hands to study all the links you gave me, and so far my wife hasn't complained about the explosions in the shop. You guys really aught to hear that Pulse Jet engine of mine scream, man you gotta have ear plugs in your head or you will damage your ears. Gets red hot too, don't know how much thrust it makes, I only made it to see if I could. I used to be an engineer before this disease hit me. So now I just get to play.
One of us is gonna make a car go 125 miles per gallon yet, just keep blowing up stuff, that is what daVinchi or what ever his name was. Desperation is the mother of invention. An after last year at $5.00 a gallon I know I heard a bunch of desperate people. Hey I am outta here. Again thanks for the tips on the 36 volts being too weak to mess with. I'll go with 96 volts like the dude in california.