I am working on a HHO generator, and since I am a dummy, I have a lot of questions. I THINK I have gotten most of the design in my head now so I'll run it past you good people and ask you what you think, and at the end I have another question.
I have built an electrode using (11) 18 ga 304 SS plates spaced .010 apart. When I hooked it to a 12V car battery straight, it looks like it draws about 80A in tap water. The water fairly boils. Of course, this is too hot, and the boiling may be exactly that, from heat.
I plan to drive the electrode with a pulse generator and use IRF 540 which I understand delivers 10A, that would be @ 12V making it 120W of power. I suspect that it is the wattage that counts, however it is delivered.
If possible, I would like to be able to use the full 960W potential of the electrode, so I ask you the following questions:
1. Could I drive as many as 8 FET's (10A) in paralell from one pulse generator? If their output was commonly connected to the electrode, would that give me the 960W?
2. Since the electrode would really heat, could I hook a step-up coil to each FET output and boost the voltage to 196V and have only 10A in the electrode? (Would a flyback converter be better here?)
3. And finally, (for now), can anyone give me detailed instructions for winding such a coil?
Any and all advice greatly appreciated.
I have built an electrode using (11) 18 ga 304 SS plates spaced .010 apart. When I hooked it to a 12V car battery straight, it looks like it draws about 80A in tap water. The water fairly boils. Of course, this is too hot, and the boiling may be exactly that, from heat.
I plan to drive the electrode with a pulse generator and use IRF 540 which I understand delivers 10A, that would be @ 12V making it 120W of power. I suspect that it is the wattage that counts, however it is delivered.
If possible, I would like to be able to use the full 960W potential of the electrode, so I ask you the following questions:
1. Could I drive as many as 8 FET's (10A) in paralell from one pulse generator? If their output was commonly connected to the electrode, would that give me the 960W?
2. Since the electrode would really heat, could I hook a step-up coil to each FET output and boost the voltage to 196V and have only 10A in the electrode? (Would a flyback converter be better here?)
3. And finally, (for now), can anyone give me detailed instructions for winding such a coil?
Any and all advice greatly appreciated.