[Gasification] [OZONE generator

[Peter Singfield]

GF -- I sure would like to know a lot more about your ozone device.

I have heard of this -- and even played around with it many years back --
when still a kid -- using burned out tubes and an old model A Ford sparker
coil.

Maybe you could take some digital pictures -- write up some description and
data -- and Tom can mount it at the WWW site.

It might be a little off topic -- but it sure is important to know how to
make a simple ozone generator to purify water!!

A Ford sparker was a small wooden box with a high tension coil inside and a
set of virabting points on one end -- that were adjustable -- that once
powered up would creat a powerful spark -- the frquency of which could be
tuned by adjusting a screw tensioner on the point assembly.

It was a major item for young mad sciwentists to have.

I saved my money from my paper route when I was 11 years or so -- to buy one.

And one of the happiest days of my life once I got that spark up and running!!

Now -- some urls of interest for you:

http://www.bodycareozone.com/ProductClass.asp?ClassID=2&NClassID=10

and you need one of these to:

http://www.bodycareozone.com/ProductClass.asp?ClassID=18&NClassID=21

and at this url -- this device resembles what you describe???

http://www.bodycareozone.com/ProductClass.asp?ClassID=18&NClassID=19

Peter/Belize


At 09:12 AM 7/5/2007 +0800, Robert Taylor wrote:
>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
>> 
>
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