>> Horace Heffner wrote: >>> This would have been far superior to doing nothing. Better to insulate >>> the barrel. >> > On Sep 15, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: >> That is not necessary. Just use a lot of water and keep the test limited >> to around 5 min. As long as the overall water temperature does not go much >> above ambient you don't have to worry about heat losses. > 2011/9/16 Horace Heffner <[email protected]>: > Five minutes is not enough to run a complete test. Momentary power > measurements are highly flawed for determining total energy in vs total > energy out for a dynamic system. >
We do not need complete test. Only thing what is require is to establish the relationship between steam temperature and total enthalpy. Once this relationship is established, we can just look the temperature graph: http://i.imgur.com/lU42G.png As metal content of the E-Cat is at the same temperature as water content, it does not matter where the probe is installed. Even if they do not exactly match, there is still a correlation because heat conduction speed is somewhat constant. We only look for the correlation. > Do we actually know what the input flow was, or the water outflow was, after > the power was shut off? > Yes. Peristaltic pumps are quite predictive. –Jouni
