sorry if this doesnt go here...if your reading it and it doesnt belong just delete it or stop reading...this is a curiousity experiment
ok this is the thing. i read (i think it was these forums) abut an electrolysis w/ a un and something. anyways, i fel like making an electrolysis . k, so i know a little about this stuff cause ive been taking apart tvs/motors and all that junk since i was a kid, but i never started learning about this resistance stuff and how all the volts/amps/watts relate to eachother tell like a year ago (gr.9 science..lol)
k...so....i took apart an old comp and i got a psu. (i think its at...not atx...it doesnt have the BIG connector to go to the motherboard and that little one that goes w/ it....so its at im assuming). what i wanna do is use this to power my electrolysis cause i doesnt wanna use 120v/15amps coming directly form socket.
this psu says it has 8(or 5...dunno) amps for 12v rail and .8 for -12. now this is what im wondering:
all i have to do is connect -12 and +12 to electrodes..right?? (i already have 2 hugeass nails conenct to a board in a bucket)
now....to measure these voltages with a multimetre all i have to do is connect positive to +12 volt and neg to ground...then -12 to negative and positive to ground..right?...........or -12 to neg and +12 to positive?what would happen?
now i did this already w/ a 9-volt battery...but not enuf hydrogen
so my question is this
if i put the +12v 8amp linme and -12 volt .8 amp...will that be really dangerous? the old psu at has a switch with a ground wire so i will conenct ground wire to psu box (metal) but i need to know
what makes more hydrogen bubbles..more amps/volts? or watts?
and lastly...what happaned to my oxygen? i thoghut hydrogen collected at negative end and oxygen collected and positive end?
you dont have to answer all my quesions...but i would be really happy if you guys did...im really curious about all this science stuff..since i was a kid
thanks
ok this is the thing. i read (i think it was these forums) abut an electrolysis w/ a un and something. anyways, i fel like making an electrolysis . k, so i know a little about this stuff cause ive been taking apart tvs/motors and all that junk since i was a kid, but i never started learning about this resistance stuff and how all the volts/amps/watts relate to eachother tell like a year ago (gr.9 science..lol)
k...so....i took apart an old comp and i got a psu. (i think its at...not atx...it doesnt have the BIG connector to go to the motherboard and that little one that goes w/ it....so its at im assuming). what i wanna do is use this to power my electrolysis cause i doesnt wanna use 120v/15amps coming directly form socket.
this psu says it has 8(or 5...dunno) amps for 12v rail and .8 for -12. now this is what im wondering:
all i have to do is connect -12 and +12 to electrodes..right?? (i already have 2 hugeass nails conenct to a board in a bucket)
now....to measure these voltages with a multimetre all i have to do is connect positive to +12 volt and neg to ground...then -12 to negative and positive to ground..right?...........or -12 to neg and +12 to positive?what would happen?
now i did this already w/ a 9-volt battery...but not enuf hydrogen
so my question is this
if i put the +12v 8amp linme and -12 volt .8 amp...will that be really dangerous? the old psu at has a switch with a ground wire so i will conenct ground wire to psu box (metal) but i need to know
what makes more hydrogen bubbles..more amps/volts? or watts?
and lastly...what happaned to my oxygen? i thoghut hydrogen collected at negative end and oxygen collected and positive end?
you dont have to answer all my quesions...but i would be really happy if you guys did...im really curious about all this science stuff..since i was a kid
thanks