On 02/09/2011 01:28 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Who, besides yourself, has said the reaction rate is being electrically >> controlled to keep the steam temperature at 101.6 C? >> > Levi's report says the control box contains 5 digital PLC's. I > presumed they were programmable logic controllers and regulated the > "hot spots" in the reactor. > > I think Rossi's Ecat is far more complex than you give him credit. >
Indeed, perhaps it is. And in the demo they lost the main heater and the steam temperature and flow rate remained unchanged, steam coming out at 101.6 C and flow rate still determined by the fixed rate of the pump. Isn't that what Levi's report also said? Or am I misremembering that? I would love to see a statement by someone a little closer to the core team that the output temp is tightly regulated by the heater current, via precise control of the reaction rate.
