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RE: Help needed with voltage divider
Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
At 07:14 AM 7/28/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Denicolai, Marco" <Marco.Denicolai-at-tellabs-dot-com>
>Hi Jim,
>
>I didn't find much information on the web about hydro-caps. Are they
>sealed or not? And isn't it so that Ni-Cd batteries release hydrogen
>when being charged? The caps should then provide oxygen to form H20.
>I guess my case is the opposite. The divider releases N and O2 and need
>H for form water. My chemistry is pretty weak, sorry :)
They are open to the air, and recombine the H2 with O2 from the
air. There's also O2 released in an overcharge situation (hydrolyzing the
water)
http://www.ibiblio-dot-org/pub/academic/environment/alternative-energy/energy-resources/homepower-magazine/archives/11/11pg37.txt
describes some stuff, and it appears that Hydrocap is actually a tradename
for a specific product. Maybe searching for hydrocap-dot-com or something.
>How do you see my analysis?
>
> > What about using "Hydro-caps" which recombine hydrogen and
> > oxygen into water (as used on Lead Acid batteries)