The Big Bang
Built a Soda bath the other day and decided that the more more power you put in the quicker the job will be done and placed a filthy weapons carrier bellhousing in the tank. I have acces to large deep cycle batteries as used in telephone exchanges so I built a string that could deliver 48 volts and 100 amps. Well all went well at first it took about one minute for my 60 litre tank to look like a foaming cup of coffee. I left it to run for about 1 hour when I returned the water had dropped two inches and was close to the boil. At this point I decided to pull the plug on my experiment. Silly me I removed the negative from the work only to be thrown a couple of metres in a bright flash and huge bang. As I removed the lead it drew a large arc igniting the Hydrogen being given off by the soda brew. It was well ventilated but I was still producing enough gas for a good blast. I think in future I will reserve this sort of power input to a 1200 litre tank I intend to buy.
BE CAREFULL RESTORERS
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02-07-04, 06:39
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