On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:58 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
I have been seeking a constant current through the nickel versus a constant > power into the system since the resistance of the electrolyte is dominate. > High resistivity is not necessarily an issue, per se. In the Pd/D electrolysis experiments, as the palladium is loaded with deuterium, the resistivity goes up. Often the target loading is 0.95 or higher, so it seems likely that there is a lot of resistivity in a good run in such experiments. I think a common belief is that it is the *flux* of deuterium that is important in those experiments; whether the deuterium is entering the substrate or leaving it does not matter. Assuming a parallel can be drawn with Ni/H electrolysis, an AC current might not be undesirable in itself, unless it somehow messes up some other important variable. Eric
