Do you think that is what he is referring to? I agree that DC into the heater resistors should likely work if gas can be used, but his wording is very confusing. There remains a possible conflict generated by a uni directional magnetic field. To point out that DC does not work while AC is required suggests that this is the case. Converting AC into DC is such a trivial operation these days that no one should point out that one works while the other does not at the heater input port without good reason.
I suppose that the physical specifications of the complete system likely would say that it operates on 50 or 60 Hertz AC power input. It might be that simple. It has been so long since any operational information has been released that I grabbed the first morsel. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Alan Fletcher <a...@well.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com>; vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Mon, Sep 15, 2014 4:45 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:ECAT Uses AC and not DC At 10:22 AM 9/15/2014, David Roberson wrote: Rossihas stated within his blog that the HotCat only works on AC power. Both 50 and 60 hertz appear to work with his system. I think that the AC requirement is just for his control system,modulating the power with a thyristor. I suspect that aDC-to-AC inverter would work just fine (with a small loss ofefficiency).
