More frustration than confidence! Jeff kept on insisting that there is no documentation that the instrument (actually sensor) can measure the liquid content of steam, to which I AGREED, but I requested twice that he read my proposal of a very easily understood method that one could calculate that value with information that the instrument DOES give us... And he did not. He was pretty much digging in his heals and refusing to even read and discuss what I was proposing! Gee, that's real open-minded...
-Mark -----Original Message----- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:28 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea... At 02:25 PM 6/22/2011, Mark Iverson wrote: >AS I ALREADY STATED, I AGREE THAT THE INSTRUMENT DOES NOT MEASURE STEAM >QUALITY! >YOU"RE TOTALLY MISSING THE POINT! IT DOES GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION >NEEDED TO CALCULATE IT THOUGH! > >THE INSTRUMENT DOES PROVIDE MASS OF WATER AS VAPOR, AND SUBTRACTING >THAT FROM THE MASS OF WATER GOING IN WILL GIVE YOU THE MASS OF LIQUID >WATER THAT IS COMING OUT!!!!!!!!!! > >Its ALGEBRA-I level math... The capital letters inspire and express confidence, right? The instrument does not provide mass of water as vapor, unfortunately, that's not what it shows. It reads in g/m^3. To convert this to mass we'd need to know the volume, eh? (This is really just a relative humidity measurement, converted at the relevant temperature and pressure.) Further, we do not know the effect of the presence of liquid water on the meter readings, so the g/m^3 might be affected by the presence of liquid water. Slow down, folks, pressing the caps lock before engaging the mind is a way to look really .... well, I won't say it. You get the idea.
