Frank Gordon / Harper Whitehouse - the LEC -collected papers

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    Alan Smith , sorry to bother you as you are indeed busy, but as you are back to Ni foam, can you tell us more about the material you have told us is good for separation of the WE and CE, I recall is a mesh but can’t recall the material and if I dreamed or you told us it is covered with a PTFE layer that ensures the isolation and also that it is 0,1 mm thick, is that right?

    I certainly Hope to see LENR helping humans to blossom, and I'm here to help it happen.

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    I have plated the counter-electrodes with Zinc. Very simple, the electrolyte is a weak solution of Zinc Chloride and Acetic Acid in DW. Takes around 30 minutes - plated on the right, un-plated on the left.


    And, amazingly, it looks just like the nickel plating photo, from the previous page. ;)


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    RE: Frank Gordon / Harper Whitehouse - the LEC -collected papers
    The cathode on the left was my first attempt at nickel plating, the nickel deposit on the LHS is way too heavy, so I diluted the 'Watts' plating solution 50/50 to reduce its conductivity and lowered the voltage and current as mentioned above. The result was the electrode on the RHS. The plating is smooth flat and even and well adhered, but still faster than I wanted for co-deposition though. This took 60 minutes the current and voltage are shown below- volts just above the Faraday limit for…
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    Alan Smith , sorry to bother you as you are indeed busy, but as you are back to Ni foam, can you tell us more about the material you have told us is good for separation of the WE and CE, I recall is a mesh but can’t recall the material and if I dreamed or you told us it is covered with a PTFE layer that ensures the isolation and also that it is 0,1 mm thick, is that right?

    In the presentation slides, linked on the previous page, Alan refers to nylon fly screen:


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    The closer the WE/CE are the higher the output, The best spacers are both thin, and porous, lightweight fly-screen nylon mesh being the most effective separator tested so far.

    I've been looking at sourcing some, to have a go at creating a LEC - but notice that many of the polymer meshes available are actually HDPE rather than a grade of nylon (sometimes the term "nylon" is used by vendors rather loosely).


    One thing that does concern me is that many of them are black - which often means they have used a small portion of "carbon black" as a filler, to help improve UV stability. Unfortunately the carbon could also affect resistivity of the mesh - which might have consequences for the LEC performance.