Hydrogen Generator Balloon Powerful Explosion

I took this video in my backyard on the patio. You don't see it in the video, but there is a door that leads to the garage on the right hand side.
I ran a wire from the patio to the garage, through the door. This wire was hooked up to an automotive ignition coil which in turn was responsible for the ignition of the hydrogen balloon.
If you listen closely, you can hear a faint squeak of a door closing just before the ignition. This is because I exited the patio through the garage door, closed the door, and ignited the balloon remotely. I had my back against the door, which shook as if someone pounded on it when the explosion happened.
I went back inside the house, going through the garage and in through the front door. My sister [who was in the front part of the house at the time] ran to the front door because she thought that "someone blew up her car"

Materials used in video:
*Hydrogen Generator from http://www.hoffmanapparatus.com
*automotive vacuum tee
*bubbler/balloon ignitor

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hydrogen
• generator
• balloon
• exploding
• hho
• Electrolyzer
• Electrolysis
• Oxygen
• hoffman
• hofmann
• apparatus
• hoffmann

[danzl]

6:33

my water broke honey

[csumm101]

hilarious

[deltahho]

Thanks for the info you have a good setup going there You could store the hydrogen you got going on there as long as there is no oxygen mixed with it. Then when you have a big tank full you can hook it right up to the car and run it off just Hydrogen. Good luck with it all

[csumm101]

Thank you.

[gushplop]

stupid

[z0tx]

Cool video. I have a question, why pass the gases through water, why not directly attach the balloon to the T? Does the second electrolysis amplify the result by much?

[ContaMuir17a]

@geo5734036 Hydrogen by itself does not support combustion. It is not explosive unless mixed with oxygen. Many of the Hydrogen generators people seem to be developing actually produce a mixture of both hydrogen and oxygen., this one does not. Evidence shows that the reason the Hindenburg caught on fire was because of the nature of its outer membrane's sustainability to static electricity. It was made by brushing layers of gelatine onto a sheet of cotton sandwiched between 2 layers of cotton.

[ContaMuir17a]

@geo5734036 Hydrogen by itself does not support combustion. It is not explosive unless mixed with oxygen. Many of the "Hydrogen" generators people seem to be developing actually produce a mixture of both hydrogen and oxygen., this one does not. Evidence shows that the reason the Hindenburg caught on fire was because of the nature of its outer membrane's sustainability to static electricity. It was made by brushing layers of gelatine onto a sheet of cotton sandwiched between 2 layers of cotton.

[vox1philippines]

the best way for a HHO PROJECT........

[hairslikeabirdnest]

use a condom, its funnier.^^

[panzuman]

@davidtroub pure hydrogen wont burn in order for somthing to burn it needs oxygen. other wise its not burning dude your hydrogen is getting its oxygeb from some where

[ingesumadre]

have any one got hexavalent chromium on the water the red dust that leaves the oxidation on the bottom?

[geo5734036]

you need to build 2 separate generators, linked under the fluid levels by a tube. Put the positive lead in 1 generator and the negative in the other. Positive field produces oxygen, negative produces hydrogen

[geo5734036]

12 volts at 5 amps seems to give the best durable production. Higher amperage will produce more hydrogen, but it will also boil your water faster too. Home current(110Volts a/c) will blow your circuit immediately in smaller generators.I made a generator from a gallon jug and still blew the circuit immediately.