[Gasification] [OZONE generator

[Robert Taylor]

So the tubes are intact. My bad, I completely misunderstood what you are
doing (due to not reading your post properly). I thought you were opening
up the tubes somehow and running the air through inside them.

Robert Taylor

>
> Right on all counts.
>
> The advantage of using? fluorescent tubes as? electrodes is manifold.
> By taking, say two?tubes and connecting an AC or DC high voltage source to
> only ONE end of?each tube,
> Nothing happens, until you lay them side by side and close together. a
> high voltage field will build up similar to the function of a capacitor.
> The gasses within the tubes, will become ionized, just the same as?when
> used as light providers.
> The ionization will be much less, but a faint glow will appear. nothing
> dangerous about that.
> So what's the problem?
>
> The gap between the tubes is where it all happens.
>
> I placed a bundle of these tubes inside a container, each tube of opposite
> polarity to its neighbor, applying a voltage generated from an IC ignition
> coil, driven by a 555. and power transistor, running on 12 volts DC. It
> drew about 200 ma.
> The high voltages are fully insulated and fully separated by glass?,
> the?tube cluster being fed from both ends. electrical terminations are at
> maximum distance from each other.
> Because glass is such a good insulator. I feel there is no chance of the
> usual dangers of arcing, associated with corona discharge Ozone
> generation??
> Air has been passing through this device, ?at the rate of ,one liter PM
> for the disinfection of a 100 gallons of machine tool coolant
> This unit has been running for the last?three years. there are 25, 12" x
> 1/2" long tubes in the bundle.
> I am now building one for my swimming pool to dispense with the addition
> of chlorine.
>
> GF


> Careful--the fluorescent coating inside those tubes is highly toxic,
> AFAIK.
>
> Robert

>>I am building this Ozone generator, using spent?96 inch fluorescent tubes,
>>bundled?as the electrodes which distribute an ionizing voltage to the air.
>> The voltage being produced by an automotive ignition coil. The process
>> and
>> construction is extremely simple.
>> The tubes contain ionizable gas, If one filament or electrode is
>> connected
>> to a high potential, the gas within, will become conductive.If the tubes
>> are bundled and in close proximity to each other, within a tubular
>> enclosure, an ionizing effect is produced between one tube and the next.
>> with reversal of polarities.
>> high quantities of ozone can be obtained replacing the requirement of
>> chlorine based compounds.
>> this unit would be suitable for hot tubs and swimming pools, besides
>> gasifiers.
>>
>> GF
>