Plate Material for HHO Generator

[AHI]

I would stay away from copper, it will corrode in no time at all. This might sound strange, but if you are constructing a tower in a plastic cylinder, I would suggest you fit a stainless steel lid as this is generally where the connections leave the unit. If the internal connections are not immersed in the electrolyte a lot of heat will be generated even from quite low amps. You only need about 1.5 volts to produce HHO, so if you have an input of 13.8 volts - 1.5 volts = 12.3 volts at 15 amps you have 184.5 excess watts. That heat will be concentrated in the area of connection that is not immersed. Wire can become red hot. You could have an internal explosion. Acrylic will become pliable or melt at that temperature, you'll have a gas leak. Hot glue will melt. Only use bolt on connections, spade connectors can be loose and create more heat by arcing. Don't use spark plug caps on threaded bolts, they will arc. Use a high heat resistant grommet backed up by a penny washer on both sides of the connection. The area provided by the S/S lid acts as a heat sink for the grommets and will help to keep things cool. The tower for a wire bound electrode needs to be made of thick acrylic or polycarbonate material. If you use thin material the tower will twist and the electrodes become loose, possibly shorting out.

AHI

[Louis L. Borja]

Use stainless steel since they last longer and are cleaner. Since they are less in conducting electricity, use MORE plates. Copper makes the water dirty. The material that endures longer is better.

[TomK]

I am interested to know the expected life of the unit based on mileage or hours with stainless plates. I have a water ionizer from Enagic that has platinum coated titanium plates. Would this type of plate be an overkill?

[wilkes71]

My son-in-law made 10 units and found that bead blasting the stainless steal plates increased the surface area and made them more efficient.

[peteg]

Re: EFIE. Schematics and parts list are easy to find on the internet. If you have trouble let me know and I will send you one. Though I can build an EFIE (Single or dual O2 sensor) it is now more cost effevtive to buy them off the shelf ( if you were to build one how do you test and or cailibrate it ?) I think that this sites product section has
a listing for EFIE units. Take care

I would like to know where (off the self ) I can buy a o2 sensor enhancer.ebay is to expensive. $40.00 IS TO MUCH FOR 5.00 WORTH OF MATERIAL. At least I think so

Hi,
pricing the parts,it's cheaper to buy one!
Pete

[alfycv007]

greetings,

As of now my final design is spiral type or more likely a spring type, I am using an acrylic plastic for my casing bonded with chloroform and i also drilled and fastened it with screws the casing is rectangular in shape H 7inches L 6.5 inches W 4 inches. Thickness of the acrylic plastic is .5 inch, there are two compartment inside it, big and small. the bigger compartment house my hho generator and the small space for my babbler.
I used a stainless spiral anode and cathode parallel to each other dipped in distilled water with baking soda (for the catalyst).
The magnetic vortex created by the spiral design add up to the production of hho as compared to the flat sheet, not to mention that spiral is much more easy to prepare.

could you please post more details of this design...please. am new to this. and i want to make one generator for 500cc single cylinder four stroke diesel engine. can you have any advices regarding no of plates, 304ss will do or not?, electrolyte. please if you have do post or please mail me at alfycv007@gmail.com

[monster350]

Before building a HHO generator I would like some feedback or what material has been tried in building the plates. It seems that copper would be good, but I don't know how much corrosion there would be. Stainless steel doesn't have that good of electrical properties, but wouldn't corrode as bad. Any suggestions?

i am no expert but everything i have read says 316 ss is best.have been reading info on HHO for 2yrs now.there are very good sites on intense research with HHO methods i would suggest reading more much more before building.its not the ss its the medium that transmits the field.plates must be individually insulated i believe,utube has alot of good info if you dig deep and read everything.check out the HHO revolution website by hari heath,John Kanzius has unbelievable inf,Bob Boyce is a HHO designer inventor,fuel saver-MPG inc is a very good unit,hope this helps im always looking for more info,monster350