The Forbes paper did give me a better insight to the scale and geometry of the Rossi reactors where the cylinder length is 33 cm for both the outer and inner cylinder. The outter cylinder is 10 centimeters in diameter while the inner cylinder which holds the powder charge is only 33 millimeters in diameter and placed along the center axis. A 3rd ceramic cylinder fits between the outer and inner cylinder and holds 3 wire wound resistors equidistant from the center axis and each the full length of the cylinder such that "sequenced" power interruption of their 3 phase power source by their triac regulators should "roll" the peak thermal exposure around the surface of the inner cylinder they are designed to heat. Or am I just stating the obvious? We have always suspected this device requires a fine balance between draining away heat and initiating heating to prevent self destruction or stalling out, and the equidistant placement plus sequencing sure seems to reinforce that concern. Fran
>From Forbes article >http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/20/finally-independent-testing-of-rossis-e-cat-cold-fusion-device-maybe-the-world-will-change-after-all/ > They described the E-Cat HT as:[snip] a cylinder having a silicon nitride >ceramic outer shell, 33 cm in length, and 10 cm in diameter. A second cylinder >made of a different ceramic material (corundum) was located within the shell, >and housed three delta-connected spiral-wire resistor coils. Resistors were >laid out horizontally, parallel to and equidistant from the cylinder axis, and >were as long as the cylinder itself. They were fed by a TRIAC power regulator >device which interrupted each phase periodically, in order to modulate power >input with an industrial trade secret waveform. This procedure, needed to >properly activate the E-Cat HT charge, had no bearing whatsoever on the power >consumption of the device, which remained constant throughout the test. The >most important element of the E-Cat HT was lodged inside the structure. It >consisted of an AISI 310 steel cylinder, 3 mm thick and 33 mm in diameter, >housing the powder charges. Two AISI 316 steel cone-shaped caps were >hot-hammered in the cylinder, sealing it hermetically. [/snip]
