Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] What do Hydro-caps do?

["D. Blake" <dblake@bright.net>]

I know the smell from when I was a kid playing with model trains and slot
cars.
You know I often wondered about the ozone layer depletion.  If ozone can be
created by the arching of electricity, then it seems plausible that the
Earth's ozone layer is probably the result of millions of years of
lightning.  It would truly be ironic that a few hundred years of industrial
revolution could wipe out something that took millions of years to create.
Big Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Date: Friday, March 03, 2000 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] What do Hydro-caps do?


>At 1109 -0600 03/02/0, D. Blake wrote:
>>Ray:
>>Well, the problem occurs primarily during overcharging.  So when an over
>>abundence of free electrons are introduced into the system it must
>>dissociate the water molecules(H2O).  Intuitively, I believe the process
>>free's the H2, and at the same time creates ozone(O3).  This would also
>>explain the loss of water during overcharging.
>
>It would also explain that smell in addition to the sulfur.
>
>[....]
>>Of course this would mean the caps have an effective lifetime dependent on
>>the exposure to hydrogen.  So the caps will last longer the less you
>>overcharge the batteries, duh.
>
>However if you don't give the batteries a regular controlled overcharge,
they won't last as long either -- and they cost way more!
>
>--
>David
>Osage MN USA
>buchner@wcta.net - http://customer.wcta.net/buchner
>
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