okay I went re read his post he did not say bakeing soda was the worst it was somebody else but here is what he wrote
I have read baking soda, epsoms salt, lye and potasium hydroxide are all suitable, and from what I have read so far I am leaning toward potasium hydroxide.
That should be available at pool supply stores, it is used to modify the ph of a pool.
Anything that consumes electricity is using watts.
20 amps at 12 volts is 240 watts.
2 amps at 120 volts is 240 watts.
As for stepping up the voltage, that just adds more loss to the process.
Transformers get hot, the heat produced is electricity lost to producing heat that I have no use for.
I am going to use potassium hydroxide (KOH) in the water to make an electrolyte solution.
What controls the watts used in electrolysis is how strong the electrolyte is.
The less KOH I add to the water, the less watts the reaction will consume.
The more KOH I add, the more watts it will consume.
As the water is split, the concentration will increase slightly.
So if I use an amp gauge in the wire that supplies one of the stages, after a while when I see the amperage increasing I will know I need to add water to the generator.
I have been studying for several weeks now.
My approach logic is there should be more than one fixed level of gas production.
There should be a master kill switch.
There should be a safety that does not let gas production happen when the engine is not running.
I could copy and paste a link to our thread on this but can't remeber if it's agaist the rules