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Electrolyser designs - Free Energy Info

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The gas ignition is highly likely if there is a waste spark in an engine using hydroxy fuel and (the necessary)retarded ignition. Trying to eliminate the unwanted spark by using a ‘divide-by-two’ electronic counter circuitis not likely to be successful unless there is some mechanically certain way of triggering the counter circuit atstart-up. The best way of overcoming a waste spark, if the engine has one, is to use a 2:1 gearingarrangement on the output shaft of the motor and using the slower shaft to trigger the spark. Multi-cylinderengines do not usually have a waste spark. It is also possible to operate a contact from either the camshaftor directly from one of the valve stems. It has also been suggested that using a pressure-operated switch onthe exhaust system would be effective, and another suggestion is to delay the opening time of the intakevalve until after waste spark has occurred, though this may create a good deal more engine noise.Once some experience has been gained in operating a single cylinder engine on hydroxy gas, the move to afull-sized engine is not very difficult. Each cylinder of the large engine is pretty much the same as the smallengine. Instead of running a small tube down the carburettor intake of each cylinder, it is more convenientand economic to use the existing intake manifold, leave the throttle wide open and run the hydroxy gas pipeinto the manifold. A flexible stainless steel pipe section should be used to absorb the vibration of the enginerelative to the electrolyser. Roy McAlister suggests using a knob-operated needle valve to set the idlingspeed to about 1,000 rpm and placing a throttle-operated lever valve in parallel with it for applying morepower to the engine:It is not immediately clear to me why this arrangement is recommended as the knob-operated needle valveuse to set the idling rate appears to be redundant. There appears to be no particular reason why a screwadjustment could not be used on the lever valve linked to the accelerator pedal of the vehicle. If that weredone, then the throttle screw could be used to set the idle rate and the screw locked in position. That way,the needle valve and two Y-connectors could be dispensed with. The only possible reason which suggestsitself is that there is slightly less physical construction needed for the recommended way shown here:44

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