Thanks outlaw, I am glad to see you working on this! and all the others, the renewed interest in the Rotary VIC is awesome.
Everyone:
I want to take a moment to point out again, as I already have in this topic, that the RVIC was used to power the dune buggy,
First with the Demo cell to idle it: Listen carefully to every word he says in this video.
Second, in this video, he uses it with a different cell, a much larger tube cell,
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIXjODu7DIA[/youtube]
This tube cell, called his boiler plate configuration, has been used in the filing and validation of his patents, so we need to read and understand the early patents in the context of this cell.
I think this cell uses 24 inch long tubes, and a large number of them, all powered by this RVIC, so math and testing would have to be done to see what size of cell, with what number of tubes would be suitable for what ever engine you have in mind, it would be easier to start with a 4 cylinder than an 8 cylinder, and i will be using carburetors rather than fuel injection, you need to use the exhaust gasses to modulate the system, so a second carburetor just for exhaust gasses could be used, attached to a modified manifold, there are other ways to do this, but i think it would be easy to control this way.
I'd like to shift the discussion in the general direction from the RVIC, to understanding the whole system it is used in, because we have learned a lot about the RVIC and have a handful of people starting to build it... we can now move the discussion and learning, and research, and focus onto the rest of the system. We know the RVIC can run a 50 hp 4 cylinder, so we need to sort out some of those details.
We know he used the RVIC powered by a constant speed motor, the drive motor needs 60 Hz ac, so he has a rediline rotary converter to provide that - running off of the battery, and we can see he still has a normal alternator on the dune buggy to charge the battery.
This is not a resonant cell, not extremely high voltage, so cell size should be able to be increased without worrying about capacitance and frequency. Variable drive motor speed is something that could be looked into - after analyzing the RVIC with a scope, and looking at the cell configuration, you could do some math to see if adjusting the drive rpm would change the output frequency in any beneficial way, if not, forget about it! otherwise, VFD!
There is no indication of the Electrical Particle Generator on the boiler plate configuration - but there might be - there is one used with the idling with the demo cell. Note the Gas Electrical Hydrogen Generator patent.
Other considerations are, throttle/gas production control, he uses contact switches to turn off and on a number of tubes to control the production, this is a "step function" control, like shifting gears in a transmission. in between this control is variable voltage. I imagine an automatic pressure release valve, set at say, 15-20 psi, with a tube to direct released gasses vertically above and away from the vehicle, with quenching nozzle, would prove extremely useful for safety considerations.
I know you all want a water powered car, lets figure it out. Stan did this first, it worked. Resonant cells can come later
Don, have you by any chance seen the boiler plate cell or any of it's controls or components?
