OK. I am also interested in this subject and have done some research. First of all your alternator is always spinning and not always powering much so are you recovering lost energy from it spinning as long as you don't draw to much current? Second H2 and O2 burn much faster and much hotter than vap...

The alternator is not 90% efficient. at a good load of say 50 amps on a 90 amp rated alternator, at cruising speeds of 4000rpm (2:1 off the engine) figure about 50% overall efficiency into a 12 volt load. HHO is about 40% efficient at 2.6 volts across each cell. The engine is horrendously inefficien...

Last i heard about this, the hydrogen increases the burn rate, so by delaying the combustion via modifying the timing, you increase engine efficiency enough to recover the alternator load.

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A battery, transformer and 4 diodes, a solar cell, alternator, etc.

65 psi is, well, insane. 6.5 psi is a more reasonable burst. even with someone sitting on it, and a one foot diameter circle is touching the ground, which i would imagine is reasonable, yields 113 square inches. at most 2 psi people, unless your grandma is sitting on it... edit: 30-65 kilo pascals m...

"The numbers are, very roughly speaking, ten to twenty times greater than the actual working pressure rating for typical PVC1120 ASTM D2441. " and that's because the diameter ratio is ten to twenty. in the case of my infamous cannon, the diameter ratio is ~39 so if you take (4000psi/safetyfactor of ...

"Perhaps you can point to a page that says typical SCH 40 PVC pipe" There is no such thing. your question about the pressure rating shows you don't understand how they rate pvc. 5600 psi burst and a 2.5 safety factor means a schedule 40, 2 inch pvc pipe will be rated at 373 psi pr=(2/diameter ratio-...

I have been doing a lot of reading, and i'm not convinced even pressure rated pvc is any safer than non pressure rated pvc. Some sources indicate the difference is a safety factor of 2.0 vs. 2.5, but do your own research. There is some massive discrepancies between what constitutes pressure rated pv...

sorry, i meant the inherent strength of the plastic. you need to take the diameter ratio into account, and correction factors for schedule 80 and higher. before this flame gets any bigger.... if the manufacturing specifications are blatantly false, and your pipe bursts at a pressure more in line wit...

absolutely, if the manufacturer don't want to guarantee a product but is sill kind enough the give the material properties of the product, feel free to use them

The PVC1120 means it is PVC type I grade 1. Hydraulic design stress of 2000 psi, or a safety factor of 2.5, industry standard. burst is 5600 psi. the only other PVC i've seen is 2116 Type II grade 1, design stress of 1000 PSI. DHW also means it is good to 140 Fahrenheit at some specific derating, i ...

lol fill it with water.

more like 10 shots, but i am going to have my friend destructively test it.

i was never intending at the time to go past 60-70psi!

100 is an absolute limit for the chamber.

the black plastic is the barrel, the safest place for it. but you forgot about the 6 inch chamber, it's not rated. a 'wrapped' pressure vessel is extremely common, and in fact one of the only economical methods of creating large vessels, for example, 5 foot diameter, 5K psi etc. stress is always 2x ...

The flat plastic reducer failed at 65 psi, i then replaced it with aluminum. The chamber is rated to 100 psi, it don't say that on the side, but the 2 inch stuff is rated to 300, so by analogy... the valve as is would hold 100 easy, the flat reducer failed around the edges, where the flat pvc meets ...