ben123324

alright, last night i set up a small scale expirament and found out rectifyed ac works exeptionaly well at least at the 12v level. i used a bridge rectifyer from 4 diodes, and the output 120hz 12vac of positive bursts created quite a alot of bubles even at this scale. think that if you had large diodes, and a safe setup this would be a great way to get hydrogen. (when you rectify the whole wave of 60hz, you get 120, i didnt use anything other than standard mains at a lower voltage)

this is all good, but has anyone here tried electrolysis with a bridge rectifyer? that would give you 120hz of dc pulses. i would have tried it already, but i am kinda woried about what could happen. if anyone here can tell me what distance h2o breaks down at il try it, because i dont want an underwater arc. -ben "Good questions, which prompt me to ask another: Just how low can the reversal rate be and still qualify as AC current? Do we just blindly assume the normal domestic frequency? Without having any experimental evidence, Would I reasonably expect different results if current was reversed every hour or two? And supposing the current and/or voltage changed with each reversal? " you have to remember that ac has "waves" so if you had an ac extremely low hz(maybe 12hours) you would have the voltage rise 20 volts per hour, or .32 volts per minute. you would only recieve the peak voltage of 120 for a period of 1 minute, every 6 hours, and one of those peaks would be -120 rather than the +120 that you want.