Saturday, August 16, 2008

HHO booster electrolyte

Fill your booster with distilled water and NaOH (sodium hydroxide) or KOH (potassium hydroxide) only. No
tap water, salt water or rainwater! No table salt or baking soda! These materials will permanently damage
the booster!
First, fill the booster with distilled water about 2" from the top. Add a teaspoon of KOH or NaOH to the water
and then slide the top into place. Do not tighten it for now, but leave the top loose and resting in place.
Connect your 12V power supply to the leads and monitor the current draw of the unit. You want 16 amps
flowing when the booster is cold. As the water heats up over time, the current draw will increase by around
4 amps until it reaches about 20 amps, and this is why you are aiming for only 16 amps with a cold system.
If the current is too high, dump out some electrolyte and add just distilled water. If the current is too low, add
a pinch or two at a time of your catalyst until the 16 amps is reached. Overfilling your booster will cause
some of the electrolyte to be forced up the output tube, so a liquid level tube was added to monitor
electrolyte level.
The booster generally needs to be topped off once a week, depending on how long it is in operation. Add
distilled water, then check your current draw again. You may observe a drop in current over the course of a
few refills, and this is normal. Some of the catalyst escapes the cell suspended in water vapor droplets, so
from time to time you may need to add a pinch or two. The water in the bubbler acts to scrub this
contaminant out of the gas as well. I highly recommend installing an ammeter to monitor current draw as
you operate your booster.

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