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'''Bob Boyce''' (legal name '''Norman Robert Boyce''') is an American independent inventor and experimenter associated with the [[hydrogen on demand]] and "HHO" community, best known for a series of do-it-yourself water-[[electrolysis]] designs, including the "101 plate cell" electrolyzer and an associated multi-frequency electronics driver and toroidal-coil transformer. | |||
==Biography== | |||
Boyce is based in Murphy, North Carolina, United States. According to accounts within the HHO community, he became interested in hydrogen after using it as a fuel while racing small power boats in Florida, and reported that his interest in resonant electrolysis began when a failed alternator diode fed alternating current into one of his electrolyzers and appeared to increase gas output at certain engine speeds. He subsequently spent many years developing and publicly sharing electrolyzer plans, and presented his work at Tesla Technology Conferences around 2016 and 2017. The trade name "Bob Boyce" has been described as an alias and declared trademark of the individual Norman Robert Boyce. | |||
==Work== | |||
Boyce is associated with several free-plan designs that circulated widely in hobbyist "hydrogen on demand" circles. His "101 plate cell" is a series-stacked electrolyzer built from closely spaced stainless-steel plates immersed in distilled water mixed with an electrolyte. He paired the cell with a pulse-width-modulation driver (often referred to as the "PWM3G") and a toroidal transformer wound to deliver three tuned square-wave frequencies said to be in an approximate 4:2:1 ratio. | |||
Boyce claimed that driving the cell at particular resonant frequencies could produce monatomic (rather than diatomic) hydrogen and oxygen, and asserted that recombining such gas would release substantially more energy than ordinary hydrogen–oxygen combustion. These claims fall within the "free energy" and over-unity tradition and have not been established by independent peer-reviewed testing; they are contested. Some hobbyist and technical groups that attempted to replicate the design reported that they were unable to reproduce the claimed gas-production or efficiency results. His plans were released to the public without charge. | |||
==External links== | |||
* [http://www.rexresearch.com/BoyceHHO/BoyceHHOGenerator.html Robert Boyce – HHO Generators (Rex Research archive)] | |||
* [http://hydrogengarage.com/pwm3g/ Bob Boyce and the PWM3G] | |||
* [https://www.facebook.com/bobboycehho/ Bob Boyce HHO Generator (Facebook)] | |||
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Bob Boyce (legal name Norman Robert Boyce) is an American independent inventor and experimenter associated with the hydrogen on demand and "HHO" community, best known for a series of do-it-yourself water-electrolysis designs, including the "101 plate cell" electrolyzer and an associated multi-frequency electronics driver and toroidal-coil transformer.
Biography
Boyce is based in Murphy, North Carolina, United States. According to accounts within the HHO community, he became interested in hydrogen after using it as a fuel while racing small power boats in Florida, and reported that his interest in resonant electrolysis began when a failed alternator diode fed alternating current into one of his electrolyzers and appeared to increase gas output at certain engine speeds. He subsequently spent many years developing and publicly sharing electrolyzer plans, and presented his work at Tesla Technology Conferences around 2016 and 2017. The trade name "Bob Boyce" has been described as an alias and declared trademark of the individual Norman Robert Boyce.
Work
Boyce is associated with several free-plan designs that circulated widely in hobbyist "hydrogen on demand" circles. His "101 plate cell" is a series-stacked electrolyzer built from closely spaced stainless-steel plates immersed in distilled water mixed with an electrolyte. He paired the cell with a pulse-width-modulation driver (often referred to as the "PWM3G") and a toroidal transformer wound to deliver three tuned square-wave frequencies said to be in an approximate 4:2:1 ratio.
Boyce claimed that driving the cell at particular resonant frequencies could produce monatomic (rather than diatomic) hydrogen and oxygen, and asserted that recombining such gas would release substantially more energy than ordinary hydrogen–oxygen combustion. These claims fall within the "free energy" and over-unity tradition and have not been established by independent peer-reviewed testing; they are contested. Some hobbyist and technical groups that attempted to replicate the design reported that they were unable to reproduce the claimed gas-production or efficiency results. His plans were released to the public without charge.