Horace Heffner wrote:
However, because T2 readings can not be trusted, we don't even know if
the steam temperature is 120°C.
Not sure why we cannot trust the T2 readings. I must have missed that.
3. Putting the outlet thermocouple on the pipe is a good way to blur
out momentary variations and heat bursts. It is a recommended technique.
Its baloney. The thermocouples should have been located in wells in
the water flow a few cm down the rubber tubing.
I meant that if he wanted to put the thermocouple outside the pipe, he
should have extended the metal pipe a couple of feet. That would have
been a great way to measure the temperature.
It would have been a good idea to put another thermocouple inside inside
the flow of water through plastic T, in the plastic hose. You can attach
4 thermocouples to that meter.
As I said yesterday it would have been best to use a 1 m hose and let
people measure the water temperature independently.
A lot of things could have been done better. It would be hard to do it
worse.
- Jed
