Thanks for posting those pics, Enzo... Like I said yesterday at about this same time... "The Tout thermocouple being within an inch or two of the hot steam flow into the heat exchanger does not sit well w/me..." Looks like the thermocouple was Less than 2" from the steam-half of the exchanger manifold.
After those pics, I'm not liking this even more... But then, there's thermocouple T2 inside the E-Cat which showed a steady 120C to 122C temperature for over 2 hours (14:00-16:13), and then a steady 114C to 116C for another three hours (16:30 - 19:20), during which time the main heater power was off. Did a significant portion of the reactor heat end up going down the drain with the steam condensate??? This missing heat could make up for the effect of the heat of the steam inlet on the Tout thermocouple being higher than the cooling water inside. Is there any way to look at fluctuations in T2, which will hit the heat exchanger, and see if those fluctuations are seen in Tout? That would indicate that the steam heat is contaminating Tout. You couldn't engineer something more confusing that this! If Rossi were here now, I'd probably strangle him... -mark
