Rotary Arc Gap for Electrolysis
Harvey Norris ( (no email) )
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:52:12 PST
Intro; Rotary Arc Gaps for beginers
The rotary arc gap as used in a tesla coil primary involves the use of
a synchronius AC motor that does not have a slip ratio to the input
frequency inherent in conventional AC motor designs.By using these special
motors a rotating system of open/close switches can be made coordinated in
time with the actual AC input;in short;
by replacing the normal short function in
these RAG devices a load can be placed between two shorts and the use of
diodes normally used for rectification can be circumvented by an adaptation
of the RAG system to accomplish a system of MECHANICAL COMMUTATION OF AC TO
DC.
.It is my belief; stemming from the water fracturing school of thought
that a better quality or percentage of Browns gas might be made by
employing
a rotary arc gap (RAG) method.
Preliminary to a discussion of what this means and the immediate
objections that occur among those familiar with RAG methods, the first of
these are that 12,000 volts are needed for a RAG to work at 1800 rpm to say
the least. My actual contemplated designs would be a 3/1 reduction of this
rpm by pulley if feasible with 12 stationary electrodes on either side of
two revolving electrodes establishing a minimal pulse duration approaching
that of 200 nanoseconds in which each of these shorts act as entering and
exit switches enabling a mechanical commutation of AC to DC to
electrolysizor to occur. What is completely misunderstood is that this RAG
will exist at the midpoint of two BR systems,one containing high amperage
and one containing high voltage; The Binary Resonant System is
something that I have explained over and over again
contained at http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb124201 especially under
Circuit
Description in which I have explained that this is nothing more than a full
wave rectifier in which coils take the place of frwd conducting diodes and
caps that of reverse conducting. I cannot supply a simple schematic to
anyone who cannot understand this simple explanation.
Sidestepping this issue for now, let me pose a simple question;we
understand that Wiseman explains that a series electrolysizor is superior
to
a parallel design because of the losses involved in a step down
transformer. The high amperage diodes are also costly. By accomplishing the
rectification of the typical 120v 60 hz signal at input voltage it is also
assumed that heat losses on high amperage switching diodes is also avoided.
It of course is also known that a 60 fold decrease in voltage will result
in
an approximate 60 fold increase in amperage in as regards to input amperage
vs output amperage across the lower voltage load as expressed in the
electrolysis cell(s).This is the typical action of a step down transformer
where V*A~=V*A.
My simple question is this; why hasnt anyone recognized another process
whereby the amperage in a system is greater than its input?
An understanding of this question reveals an astonishing answer. All
of
these electrolysizor designs to produce Browns gas rotate around two
essential parameters.
1) The design requiremements of the electrolysizor hinge on the fact
that the least or smallest voltage to enable amperage conduction to occur
be
used. A Wiseman design then uses 120 volts across 60 cells in series to
enable ~2 volts to be maintained across each cell.
In the RAG system I intend to build this year,(Two 1800 synchro motors
just arrived today!, thank you DR Resonance)
It does not matter whether the electrolysizor has 40 cells in series,or 50,
or even if they are in parallel, the same minimal voltage to enable
conduction will be maintained with the important distinction that the
beginning voltage can be made very high to serve as a dielectric alignment
before actual conduction occurs.*
2)The voltage must be pulsed. Wiseman method uses 120 pulses/sec from
rectified wall voltage using diodes. It is generally recognized within
limits that the greater the frequency of this pulse the better. Certain
magical pulse rates have been suggested, and a method for producing these
may soon be feasible when certain experimental observations are made by
costly expenditures to determine these possibilities. The RAG method,based
on former observations might easily supply a pulse of hundreds of thousands
per second, if not millions, or perhaps an opposite effect of lower
frequency in the tens of thousands of rectified pulses per second. This can
only be determined after the fact: to see the experimental results of this
method of superimposing a high freq. upon a supposed dc discharge that will
only be shown in this possible RAG manipulation
To summarize the design I am considering will clip 1/12 of a voltage
peak from a 60 hz signal to be available for
special purposes.Rectification by mechanical design is inherent.Let us
return to my initial question. What is this "other process" that
accomplishes the same thing as a step down transformer? Where more amperage
exists inside a system than is inputed by the outside? The "other process"
is known as the resonant rise of amperage which is accomplished in a
parallel resonant or tank circuit. Why hasnt this been applied to
electrolysis? Because resonance is an AC process,not a DC one, or so we are
told. But this resonant phenomenon might be adapted for exploitation by the
same old methods used by tesla; not the modern semiconductors being used
today which I have seen that unsatisfactorily work in my preliminary
observations in these conditions; but the old fashioned make and break
methods generally classified as arc gap manipulations.
Let us not forget that these same methods used a century ago in 1899
at
Colorado Springs have never been duplicated by any solid state technology
in
a century. I guess I might get an argument about that but it is only a side
issue.
In the modification I am attempting: it cannot be simply described in
one post. It takes a lot of work to make things in reality and not simply
talk about them.I will use a 12,000 volt RAG acting as a high voltage
initiator for another lower voltage, higher amperage RAG system to
accomplish the actual electrolysis. I have understood the drawbacks and
losses involved with this endeavor, and even if it led to another blind
alley; given the same question placed to me in the future I instinctively
know that the same course of action would be done to ascertain the
possibilities here. This is simply the quest for knowledge.
*the low amperage BRS can supply 6A with an intial 760 volt pulse
the high voltage BRS can supply only milliamps withan initial 12,000 volt
pulse
It would appear that two RAGs might be used to to allow the high voltage
from
one to trigger the higher amperage to the electrolysizor. Obviously
the two RAGs should be on the same shaft. HDN
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