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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Long-haul WiFi - new developments

Returning to the WiFi topic, here is the new antenna development that I had promissed in the early post, once the dual "cantenna" design was finished.

The dual cantenna is quite efficient, as I realized by connecting it to reasonably distant access points (in excess of 200 meters, with many obstacles between, including houses). By verifying the antenna efficiency was the expected, I assumed that in better conditions the range could be far greater, by establishing a link between two antennas of this type or other type of optimal configurations.

However, I knew I could push it a little further, so I decided to buy a 12 euro 45 cm dish from a regular satellite TV system, and the materials to build a biquad feed. I installed the dish on top of the tripod used for the cantennas, and attached the biquad feed (built according to these instructions) to it:



Monday, January 7, 2008

Water Fuel Cell - DC voltage results

Today I performed some tests measuring gas production with DC voltage. The tests were performed in order to obtain aproximately the same consumed power, namely 22 Watts.

DC test performed:


High frequency test (100 KHz) at same voltage:


The DC test shows a clear increase in efficiency (almost 25%) relative to the pulsed electrolysis.
Still to compare these results with low pulse frequencies (it is likely that power losses are quite high at 100 KHz).

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Water Fuel Cell - more results

For one measurement taken without the inductor coil, we have the following values: