In reply to jonfli's message of Tue, 6 Jun 2006 10:18:22 -0700: Hi, [snip] >Since I'm not involved in any type of plasma electrolysis and the [snip] >Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the typical electrolysis cells >appear to be most nearly "resistive" relative to their waveforms with very >little or no phase shift. [snip] Plasma electrolysis cells have extremely high frequency and very spiky voltages and currents. It is impossible to speak of phase, as the frequency components are pretty much random. That's why I have in the past suggested that the best way to deal with them is to use a very low pass filter between the actual cell and the power supply. E.g. two large capacitors with a heavy ferrite core inductor between them (also a small high frequency capacitor on the cell side). That way, voltage and current (or power) can be measured on the supply side, and should be reasonably accurate. At worst, input power measurements will be a little too high due to resistance losses in the inductor. Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
