Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I should have zoomed in on voltage, current and R/R0 by turning off the temperature traces in the graph, but the comment below is pretty close. Between 4PM and (almost) midnight PST, Hot wire current varied by less than 10 milliamps (1.712 - 1.722 amps) Hot wire voltage varied by less than 20

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Alain Sepeda
Note thate ENEA with PdD proved the strong importance of crystalographic structure. One kind cause no heat, the other succed at 60%, and mix of two give mixed results... http://www.lenrforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=54t=674 It seems that DGT discuss of that, increasing the number of surface sites with

RE: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
The frequency of T° ambient and P_Xs are the same (Around 50 minutes). Is ir a coincidence? Arnaud On 2012-12-13 03:29, Craig wrote: This is so strange. I set the data in View Test Celani Cell #2, found here: http://data.hugnetlab.com/ to view back 4 hours. Then I selected only P_Xs

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread David Roberson
I think that there is a strong correlation between the ambient and the assumed power output. Dave -Original Message- From: Arnaud Kodeck arnaud.kod...@lakoco.be To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Dec 13, 2012 4:41 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Here's a 33 minute period from this morning. To me they look kind of inverted - one goes up when the other goes down. At least in this sample. The 50-minute cycles may be there but have to be confirmed by the math ... the mind is sometimes too good at finding patterns. Jeff On Thu, Dec 13, 2012

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:55 AM 12/13/2012, Eric Walker wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Craig mailto:cchayniepub...@gmail.comcchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: to view back 4 hours. Then I selected only P_Xs Low. Notice that the excess power is oscillating between 4 watts and 8 watts, in a very precise

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:00 AM 12/13/2012, Eric Walker wrote: I wrote: Re almost hourly fluctuations in T_Ambient -- the HVAC system kicking in periodically, maybe? Also, do any of the electronics folks here know what the effect might be on the instrumentation providing us with a measure for P_in if the

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:50 AM 12/13/2012, Jeff Berkowitz wrote: I looked at the voltage, current, and R/R0 values over various periods and they all look completely flat to me. At what frequencies? How did you look? If you are looking at a low-bandwidth display, you might miss high-frequency transients.

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:04 AM 12/13/2012, Jeff Berkowitz wrote: Got from another LENR researcher: There are several reported values for the enthalpy of formation of nickel hydride with -8.8 kJ/mol being the lowest and -16.3 kJ/mol being the highest at standard temperature and pressure. He went on to show

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Generally, cold fusion researchers attempt to measure and monitor loading. It is typically a critical variable. I think that would be very difficult with this system. Probably impossible. The mass of the wire is small and it does not absorb much gas. It is a good

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:07 AM 12/13/2012, Jeff Berkowitz wrote: I am looking at 1 minute averages. This is very solid. Okay. This would not detect invisible excess input power due to power supply high-frequency variations. At all. This is what SRI did. They used a constant-current power supply, with

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
No argument. All we can say right now is neither factor (HF supply noise / enthalpy) appears to be significant based on the available data for the supplies and reasonable analysis on the chemical side. Neither the data nor the analysis is everything one could ask for. Jeff On Thu, Dec 13, 2012

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:40 PM 12/13/2012, Jeff Berkowitz wrote: No argument. All we can say right now is neither factor (HF supply noise / enthalpy) appears to be significant based on the available data for the supplies and reasonable analysis on the chemical side. Neither the data nor the analysis is

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:55 PM 12/13/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Generally, cold fusion researchers attempt to measure and monitor loading. It is typically a critical variable. I think that would be very difficult with this system. Probably impossible. The mass of the wire is small

[Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/follow/176-eu-cell-2-active-wire-run Promising results are shown from EU cell of MFMP ! Arnaud

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2012-12-12 22:08, Arnaud Kodeck wrote: http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/follow/176-eu-cell-2-active-wire-run Promising results are shown from EU cell of MFMP ! It seems that even taking into account the most conservative baseline to determine output power by curve fitting (to the

RE: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
Akira said : I think it's safe to say that the MFMP finally successfully replicated Celani's anomalous thermal effect from his treated Constantan wires. The next step is now to determine whether that is a real effect or it's all due to a really unexpected artifact lurking somewhere. I would

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2012-12-12 22:57, Arnaud Kodeck wrote: I would be a little more conservative. The excess power must be kept for more than an hour or two, to at least remove any chemical reaction that may occur. As shown now, the excess power has decreased just above 4W. That excess heat might not stay long.

RE: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
A self sustained system will insure that the excess heat effect is real. That means put 12m of Celani's wire inside the cell (4W *12 = 48 equal to input power). But the system will become very unstable. The 4W is an average calculated so far from results today. As Rossi claims to do, a buffer of

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2012-12-12 22:57, Arnaud Kodeck wrote: As shown now, the excess power has decreased just above 4W. That excess heat might not stay long. Cross finger that it will happen. It looks like it increased again. Now it's at almost 8W. No apparent change in input power or external conditions.

RE: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
I suspect a correlation with ambient temperature with a delay of around 6~8 min. The ambient temperature went down at 23:20 and the calculated excess power decreased a few minutes later, now at 6W On 2012-12-12 22:57, Arnaud Kodeck wrote: As shown now, the excess power has decreased just

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread David Roberson
The results from the latest test run of the MFMP Celani replication are definitely interesting, but there appear to be some strange things happening. I assume that the power being inputted to the device has an equal effect upon the outer glass temperature regardless of the drive wire. I am

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:47 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Why do we see a breathing type of effect? This is exactly the term used by McKubre. It occurs in DPd reactions as the metal is loaded to 90+% then allowed to unload. The gas moves into the crystal structure and out

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
Something I haven't seen any discussion about is the amount of energy required to load materials with hydrogen to be used in these various LENR/CF devices. If that energy is taken into account, are the claims of excess energy from the operation of the devices still valid? [mg]

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Terry Blanton
Yes, McKubre takes the endothermic loading and exothermic off loading into his calculations in his work at SRI. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Something I haven't seen any discussion about is the amount of energy required to load materials with hydrogen to

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread ChemE Stewart
I believe the initial endothermic event is the collapse of matter within the void creating a ball of entropy, which then in turn begins to trigger beta decay in its surroundings releasing some heat, this will be a continual cycle as long as you can keep triggering the collapse. Stewart On Wed,

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Craig
This is so strange. I set the data in View Test Celani Cell #2, found here: http://data.hugnetlab.com/ to view back 4 hours. Then I selected only P_Xs Low. Notice that the excess power is oscillating between 4 watts and 8 watts, in a very precise rhythm, with each wave appearing to have the same

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Terry Blanton
With NiH loading is not an issue. It seems we have two totally different LENR reactions occuring. Are they based on the same physics? Maybe yes, maybe no. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, McKubre takes the endothermic loading and exothermic off

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Terry Blanton
I should say percentage of loading does not appear to be an issue. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: With NiH loading is not an issue. It seems we have two totally different LENR reactions occuring. Are they based on the same physics? Maybe yes, maybe

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
And what about in the MFM Project? [m] On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, McKubre takes the endothermic loading and exothermic off loading into his calculations in his work at SRI. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
Why is it not an issue? [m] On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: With NiH loading is not an issue. It seems we have two totally different LENR reactions occuring. Are they based on the same physics? Maybe yes, maybe no. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:26

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Terry Blanton
It's the cracks per Storms. The reactions appear to occur at the surfaces only. In solid Pd, you have to saturate the crystalline structure. With high surface areas in Ni powder or Celani's treated (cracked) wire, there is much more surface area so loading of the total crystal is much less in

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Terry Blanton
Defkalion actually alters the crystalline structure. Cracks do not appear to be the issue in their reaction. They have found a secret in altering the crystal structure to increase the reaction. I'll bet that the reactions occur at the surface still. Note that Defkalion uses nickel foam, not

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Terry Blanton
You have to expose electrons in the Ni by altering the structure of the crystal or creating cracks so that they can influence the excited electrons in the nascent hydrogen and, using exclusion, the Ni electrons influence the positions of the H electorns making the H atoms momentarily appear to be

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2012-12-13 03:29, Craig wrote: This is so strange. I set the data in View Test Celani Cell #2, found here: http://data.hugnetlab.com/ to view back 4 hours. Then I selected only P_Xs Low. Notice that the excess power is oscillating between 4 watts and 8 watts, in a very precise rhythm, with

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Harry Veeder
I wonder if Rossi has observed a similar breathing effect. Recalling the graph from his sept (?) 2011 demo reminds me of the first oscillation of the graph below. Rossi may have choosen to limit the length of his public demonstrations to conceal the oscillations and perhaps his diffiiculty in

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
Why not? On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I should say percentage of loading does not appear to be an issue. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: With NiH loading is not an issue. It seems we have two totally

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Craig
The breathing correlates with T_Mica very well. Isn't this the temperature of the wire? If so, then it's actually power that is oscillating. I was thinking it might be something in the room environment. Craig On 12/12/2012 09:49 PM, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2012-12-13 03:29, Craig wrote: This

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Daniel Rocha
I once did some calculation with the volume of the wire, it seems that at 14Watts of output, you have an output equivalent of the same volume in gasoline burned every 2 minutes. It's an amazing quantity of energy for such small volume. And gasoline surely holds much more energy/volume than a

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:17 PM 12/12/2012, Mark Gibbs wrote: Something I haven't seen any discussion about is the amount of energy required to load materials with hydrogen to be used in these various LENR/CF devices. If that energy is taken into account, are the claims of excess energy from the operation of the

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Craig cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: to view back 4 hours. Then I selected only P_Xs Low. Notice that the excess power is oscillating between 4 watts and 8 watts, in a very precise rhythm, with each wave appearing to have the same shape, and with each wave

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Re almost hourly fluctuations in T_Ambient -- the HVAC system kicking in periodically, maybe? Also, do any of the electronics folks here know what the effect might be on the instrumentation providing us with a measure for P_in if the external power supply were erratic? Eric

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I looked at the voltage, current, and R/R0 values over various periods and they all look completely flat to me. I don't see any evidence of erratic power supply behavior. I'm not so sure about the correlation with T_ambient either. If you zoom to the 14:00 - 14:50 period the ambient temp drops

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Got from another LENR researcher: There are several reported values for the enthalpy of formation of nickel hydride with -8.8 kJ/mol being the lowest and -16.3 kJ/mol being the highest at standard temperature and pressure. He went on to show that given a wire containing 0.3g of Ni, enthalpy