Electrolysis, how and whys?

[TerryG]

Ok I am doing some bench experiments on different electrolysis methods, and I have several questions that hopefully someone can answer.

I am using distilled water with added baking soda. I am using stainless steel wire wrapped around plexiglass with the cathode and anode about 1/8" apart. I am using a one quart size mason jar and felt that I should keep the main part of the wires below the half level line so that when water level decreased it would maintain the same amount of HHO production for as long as possible.

Currently I am using 24 oz of water with 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda. At 12v I get a 4 amp draw. After about an hour the water does start getting fairly warm but not too hot to touch, probably about 105 degrees.

Here are my questions.
1. Why does the water turn brown and then brown particles begin to form?

2. Why do I get big bubbles at first when I make a new electrolyzer, but within a few minutes the bubbles drease in size to very small ones?

3. Why at first is the amperage is about 80% of what it ends up being, and it this related to question #2?

4. Is the current (amperage) draw directly proportional to the amount of HHO being produced?

5. Is it better to use more wire and less baking soda to achieve the same amount of current draw? At what point of water saturation with baking soda is too much? At what point does it stop increasing the HHO production?

6. When I add the same measurement of salt (sea salt) compared to baking soda I get more current draw, is salt better to use as a result?

7. Is there a way to measure HHO production in my experiments? I have been using current as a guide to better productivity?

8. I am working under the assumption that the closer I can get the anode and cathode to each other the better, as then current doesn't have to travel through as much water. Is this correct or would separating them further apart work better?

9. If I built two Electrolyzers, and wired them in series and the current droped would not my HHO production reduce as well or would my HHO production acctually be more productive?

10. What is the relation ship of anode and cathode surface area and HHO production?

Thanks in advance in helping me with my Electrolysis experiments, I want to understand it well and come up with a good system before I put it into a vehicle. Beside I still need to consider how the vehicle is going to react to it and how to best marry the two.

Terry

P.S. If it is helpful I can take some videos as I go along in my experiments and post them on ebay with links here.