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Post by nevbag on Aug 23, 2008 6:34:02 GMT
Advice needed on HHO kit please, I bought one from Mauritron (Water4gas) and fitted it to my Discovery 300tdi. The water turned sludgy brown and the wire spiral burned out in less than two weeks.
I made my own distilled water using my wife's eletric veg steamer and added about 1/4 teasthingy of bicarb.
I am guessing maybe my water wasn't pure enough!!!
Any ideas?
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Post by nevbag on Aug 23, 2008 6:37:29 GMT
Re previous entry, what is a 'teasthingy'? I actually typed in teasthingy!!!
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Post by nevbag on Aug 23, 2008 6:38:41 GMT
Sthingy for tea ( Iwonder if that will work).
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Post by nevbag on Aug 23, 2008 6:40:20 GMT
Sorry to be a pedantic pain, but the article I used was a small device which is designed for stirring tea.
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Post by Maurice Small on Aug 23, 2008 23:13:58 GMT
Contact us direct and we'll tell you the reason and the solution to the problem. Cheers.
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Post by cliveshep on Aug 30, 2008 17:35:16 GMT
Maurice, - hi! I fitted the Mauritron kit (master plus 1 slave) about 3 weeks ago. My water turned brown, sludge at the bottom. It also stopped visibly producing gas so I shook up the bottles suspecting that the sludge was the Sodium Biocarb which had settled out. This may well have been the case as the units started producing some gas after the shake up. Mix was 2 tspns bicarb per pot to get gas in any quantity, reccomended 1/4 to 1/2 did b****er-all! Voltage across each pot was around 6.5 volts so the mixture worked as an electrolyte although the wire turned black and corroded looking it did wipe off leaving it reasonably clean as of today. I refilled the jars today with the same mix - no more bicarb now so I'll have to order some more. However, running with careful driving, not over 60mph, easy on the pedal, Sandhurst Berks to Hammersmith London at 6.30am there was no difference between using the unit and not using the unit in terms of mileage. Absolutely none!
The car is a P reg Mitsubishi 2.8 tdi LWB Fieldmaster, max mileage driving like a geriatric is 21mpg - and that is sooo boring on a motorway, trust me! Everything was overtaking me for 2 weeks, week one without the unit as a control, followed by one week with the unit merrily frothing up, and logging total mileage achieved on each tank full of diesel over the same repetative weekly journeys.
It makes gas bubbles, turning the water to a froth, jars are gas tight, bubbler fully closed (why do you want that on a diesel?) so EVERYTHING has to go into the inlet manifold. Also, I left out the safety valve/one way valve in the outlet line as the unit can vent quite safely and easily via the air intake and filter on the car when the engine is stopped so it is redundant it seems. The resistance of both valves supplied in the kit was pretty much the same in any event so any gas produced would be as likely to escape via the valve in the lid as it was to actually reach the air intake where it might do some good.
I know it is all a bit experimental but...........what do I have to do to make it work, assuming it actually will work beneficially anyway? There is no space under the bonnet for any more than 2 jars and they were a squeeze between radiator and air cleaner and I fitted had to fit a heat shield against the rad. The jars do not get more than warm, although the outlet pipe gets quite hot. I wonder if linking the small bore outlet from one unit to the other with the final same small bore pipe is restricting flow?
Irrespective of claims from Water4Gas or Water4Diesel to the contrary, as of right now, whilst looks pretty under the bonnet, it is actually quite useless. Any ideas please?
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Post by john110360 on Oct 7, 2008 17:21:40 GMT
Hi I'm also having problems made lots of bubbles lit the gas and got a pop so suppose it was hydrogen after about 1000 miles hadnt noticed anything much different in fuel consumption, checked and found lots of brown slodge and no bubbles, further investigation showed one of the elements had erroded to the poit it was now broken in several places, anyone have any suggestions as to why.
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