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Old 17-03-2008, 23:04   #1 (permalink)
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Lightbulb Water powered drift 340 Revelution

Ok before you say I am nuts, your probably right and I couldn't care less

Yes it water for fuel.
I made a water splitter cell that splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen which burns a lot more efficient than petrol and no emissions apart from water vapor.

As you can guess the amount of pollution that drifting causes with all that petrol burning and the rubber smoking.

The real drive is the price of go go juice is smashed.

UPDATE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Ok how I made the cell was very simple. I used 7 stainless steel baking trays and cut holes in them and bolted them together using plastic spacers to keep them from contacting each other and then wired some as positive and negative and the rest neutral(no connection)
I then connected two battery leads to it and droped it in a bucket of water and connected it to a car battery and this happened>>>>>
A few weeks later I made up a simple cell housing container and outlet pipe to a bubbler bottle used as a flame trap as you can see in the next videos

So I decided to give it a go.













Bits I got to do further experiments with:
Farnell Sine Square wave Audio Signal Generator


Stainless tank to use as an earthed cell casing


Plastic sheets 10mm thick for view ports etc


Two kegs got for cell casing and collection tank


Global Specialties Corporation 4001 Pulse Generator


Plastic





X2 Flashback arresters


And a heap more stuff including stainless sheets and hoses n connections and vac pumps etc

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Old 17-03-2008, 23:11   #2 (permalink)
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cool

if it works good luck to you. if it dont, gutted
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Old 17-03-2008, 23:12   #3 (permalink)
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Your crazy

Seriously thou cool!
How efficient is it though ? seen as you thought they would have started using this on a more wide spread scale.
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Old 17-03-2008, 23:13   #4 (permalink)
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cool, have you drifted the car with the cell working...
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Old 17-03-2008, 23:17   #5 (permalink)
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they have talked about this for years lads but they would loose billions from petrol sales.

Its all about money no o-zone to some.
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Old 17-03-2008, 23:19   #6 (permalink)
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This concept is new to me and it's only in its early stages. I can only get the engine to idle for now. I am working on a bigger cell with an electric vac pump and using a pulse wave generator to produce more gas. I am also converting a 4 stroke generator to run on water.

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Old 17-03-2008, 23:21   #7 (permalink)
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does the car actually drive? i seen these on ebay long time ago.
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Old 17-03-2008, 23:22   #8 (permalink)
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If we need oil the oil industry can control us. Remove our need for oil, we will be free.
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Old 17-03-2008, 23:25   #9 (permalink)
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does the car actually drive? i seen these on ebay long time ago.
I made this myself. The ones on ebay are too small to run only on hho gas alone. You need a much bigger cell or multi cell setup with electronic pulsing waves for more gas production.
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Old 17-03-2008, 23:26   #10 (permalink)
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mint! Good luck yo ya!

water powerd skid car FTW!!!!!
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Old 17-03-2008, 23:28   #11 (permalink)
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Didn't Mythbusters try this? IIRC, they couldn't get the car to start?

Fair play if you get it working though, we'll all be queuing up for a kit
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Old 17-03-2008, 23:51   #12 (permalink)
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I'm not aware of the Mythbusters attempt can you give me a link or something?
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Old 18-03-2008, 01:43   #13 (permalink)
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jaysus man, keep at it!
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Old 18-03-2008, 01:54   #14 (permalink)
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Fair play, I don't know much about HHO cells but good luck to you.
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Old 18-03-2008, 02:12   #15 (permalink)
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Old 18-03-2008, 02:13   #16 (permalink)
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Um, isn't it dangerous having an Evian bottle full of hydrogen in the car!?

Edit: Ignore that... no more dangerous than a tank of petrol, I suppose. Am I right in thinking the car is running on a mix of hydrogen and oxygen?

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Old 18-03-2008, 02:44   #17 (permalink)
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Um, isn't it dangerous having an Evian bottle full of hydrogen in the car!?

Edit: Ignore that... no more dangerous than a tank of petrol, I suppose. Am I right in thinking the car is running on a mix of hydrogen and oxygen?
Soon after that video I was messing around with the ignition timing and that bottle went bang when it backfired after retarding the ignition too much
An impressive white flash came from the bottle.

If your petrol tank catches flame it will go bang and burn all day but if your hho cel goes you get a flash, a loud bang and abit wet thats it.
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Old 18-03-2008, 09:09   #18 (permalink)
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Has anybody tried using an exhaust catalyst for this? it would seem possible as its an alloy of sorts. Huge surface area too. Have been tempted to have a play with this hho stuff, now you'll have me tinkering very soon.
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Old 18-03-2008, 10:16   #19 (permalink)
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I'm not aware of the Mythbusters attempt can you give me a link or something?
I found a synopsis of the episode, the relevant bit is:

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Hydrogen fuel cell generator

Hydrogen fuel cell generator: the car started, but it turned out it was due to leftover fuel. They tried again with the residual fuel gone and the car wouldn't even start.

Adam: "My God! It doesn't work! I can't believe it doesn't work. I found it on the Internet, man!"

Jamie rolled a tank of hydrogen gas over and squirted the gas directly into the carburetor. The car started up with the gas, much to the excitement of Jamie and Adam. It was so much fun they tried it again, only to get caught off guard as the gas exploded inside of the carb, ending that particular test.
Taken from here.
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Old 18-03-2008, 10:48   #20 (permalink)
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Why re-invent the wheel?
Your going round a track heating up and burning carcenagenic rubber compounds and your worried about exhaust gas?
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