i dont know this samuel..
i was thinking about and i guess i found a missing link... when i was working with barium titanate i found that capacitors have absorption effects...this mean that just like a iron core in a coil if you dont actually reverse the direction of the current there will be groups that remain alligned and as such its not there to be polarized again over and over as it is already polarized....
this is called hysteresis . and it mean that the sistem will remain with some of the charge you put into it necessarely... as water is polar this effect is very pronounced much more than in plastics... however as water have some kinnetic energy the molecules will disorder fast
when the switch is open here i see a big spike little after that goes up to 70v positive as the switch is on low side...
actually there is my protection system connected in parallel with the cell as im using the freq generator that you see in the videro and its prepared to pulse transformers and allow them to collapse .... i guess this 70v may come from the inductance of the lead wires...
you see what i mean?
yesterday i did some tests and labview gave me strange graphs for current... i kind of found a resonance at 7hz or so... the water shakes...
just pulsing 50% 12v pulseslike you said steve but i get potassium hydroxide on water... using the polished electrodes it gives some nice gas at 2 or 3 amps or so... may be 6 amps peaking...
just one cell... the cell is closed on one side so water stand on its own...
at certain frequencies it created a small fog like like those foggers.
there is very littel amount of water in the system but only in the gaps of the tube and rod (closed below) but having maybe 5mm of water lever over the cap
the graph showed a sine wave that went to zero periodically like if applying 7hz made the cell to absorb the current in a ac like behavior
