the cell started humming and then shacking, "viberating" at first i thought the humming was coming from my power supplie but further investigation proved that it was not comming from the power supply but from the fuel cell.
I discovered this today also! Its amazing what you might hear w/out an alternator roaring away
It sounds like a distorted buzzing sound and its hard to lock on to its peak effect...
I also learned not to hook the o-scope to it unless you want to weld something.
I'd like to add that I was only able to achieve this ringing reaction with only one of my cells. It was the one That is 10"long with the .024" gap. "Little man" is responding much better to my setup then the 11.5" .070" gap "Big-Boy" cell. The larger gap cell wants more power put to it and I think my 13amp variac is just not powerful enough for it.
"Little Man" is now powerful enough to run a torch all on its own and still push pressure. I have had 3 explosions because if the back-pressure drops it pulls the flame into the bubbler. very scary and it got me all wet. I wonder what will happen if I hook the variac to my neon sign transformer then to a bridge rectifier then to the cell...?
