transporting ionized gas is the same as run with a bucket full of water in your hands.. you will get wet
the ionized gas will be attracted by any metal or even plastic by the electronic polarization, at plastics it will get stuck and only partially discharged but with metals it lose its charge...
so the strategy is to have a very well insulated tubing that brings all the ionized gas straight into the combustion chamber.. silicon tubing seems a good option since stand high temps
also the injector must have a high voltage isolation from the car parts
when you charge something with high voltage it will have the opposite charge of the voltage you charged it with but it can even create higher voltages if this charges are collected at a point..
i think the injector should be totally plastic solenoid.. for it to work,, perhaps costume made
Interesting stuff
Never thought on that one..
stan himself said that if the charged gas pass inside a metal tube it will give of its charge to it charging the object to a voltage that it will not be able to further discharge if its not grounded...
how fast this occur i cannot tell but i guess is pretty much in the milliseconds or even microsecond range if not nicely insulated
stan solenoids seems covered in delrin excessively by the way!
every time i think about this i start thinking if there is no possibility of using this process of flowing ionized gas to generate electricity and i posted recently some patents that explain how to do with different size electrodes and plasma etc
and other that come in mind is the kelvin thunderstorm arrangement!
Meyer had the air reclaiming system in the tech brief telling he would process the output exhaust too so perhaps one way to get away with the electrons and still have the pump efect of the engine runing let him pull aways the electrons extracted
if we extract something we need to put it somewhere
electrons cannot be stored simply in a box or capacitor without their counterparts the holes (or absence of electrons) positive charges
the car would get charged with this electrons relative to ground and you get all this discharge on you when you get out of the car.
so for real if we want to do this with safety or we bring them to ground directly or find a way to create a negative ionizer to disperse them away as effectively as possible
it could be simply possible also that stan gave this negative charge to the non combustible gases or the air in the air processor to get into the reaction and have a neutral reaction
however if you think about this is possible even to create or favoring other reactions like with nitrogen, carbon dioxide, present in air etc
i was going to bed yeterday when i had the thought .. what is the signal of the lambda sensor be like
after all it is a oxygen sensor right? and if we use only hydrogen and oxygen from water already in the correct proportion it should not consume more oxygen from air... however nitrogen oxides may be formed too and this can be the non combustible gases
so the lambda sensor may be useful to determine the amount of non combustible gas in the non combustible gas line and this may have an effect on the non combustible gas solenoid timing and the air timing
to make the complete car we will probably need
air pump
water pump
3 solenoids
silicone tubing or something with good insulation like teflon or those new plastic with rapid connectors seems great for this and handle pressure well
pressure sensors
microcontrolers like arduino to handle the signals
a rotation encoder with 60 ticks or 120 would be very nice to get a better rpm reading precision
or something that can directly convert the rpm to a analog signal...
also something that could work is the alternator signal perhaps a current feedback with hall sensor near the battery could do it
this would be much easier of course with a car that already have an injection system because we can simply get the signal of one of the injectors or the primary or of the flyback ...
but the rpm reading is something that we still need and must be fast and somehow accurate
a pll can convert the frequency into a voltage signal with easy and this can be converted to the rpm with good precision.. i guess is going to be my best alternative .. for this i will only use a normal pll like the 4046 but would give a lock indicator to it to also control the logics in case of loose lock..