Am 27.10.2011 20:55, schrieb Jed Rothwell:
Peter Heckert wrote:
The anomalous power greatly exceeded the total power that you can
input with the joule heaters.
There can be a secret heater.
No, there could not be. The wire going into the reactor is not heavy
enough to support the anomalous power that was produced. It would have
burned up.
No, it would not burn up. This cable lies free on the floor and in
ambient air.
Lets say it has a temperature 5 degrees above ambient under full load.
It is probably designed this way that it works safely under worst case
conditions and 70° ambient temperatue for infinite time.
If it conducts 2 times the maximum rating current then it has 20° over
ambient after some hours but less after a shorter time. Nobody would
notice this under this circumstances and it will still be perfectly safe.
