I am pleased to see that you are now a believer in the ECAT Peter. We need folks like you to help support the development of this fascinating technology. I proposed to Rossi many months ago to use a flat core shape to enhance scaling of his systems and in late September to place an insulator of some form between the core and the heat sink. It looks like both are now present. If he makes the change to place the heating element in close thermal contact with the cores, he will be in pretty good shape. Your suggestion to use inductive heating would be excellent as long as the heat can be directed to the insulated core and not lost within the heat sink. Proper material selection might solve that issue.
I am afraid that the long self sustaining time constant is required if in fact he wants to have that. I suggested some form of coolant spray onto the cores under control of a valve would allow rapid cooling down as needed in many applications. The phase change if water or similar medium is used for this purpose would be quite effective in cooling the cores. The ECAT type of device has a lot of improvement room. I recall someone suggesting that the current one is the Model-T version. I agree with that statement. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Peter Heckert <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 6:50 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: ECAT Gold Mine-Data Review from October 6 Test Am 02.11.2011 23:16, schrieb David Roberson: I hope that Mr. Rossi reads this analysis and considers placing the heating element in close thermal contact to the core modules. Both the heating element and the cores should be removed from close thermal contact to the heat sink. If this is enacted, the COP will improve by a factor of 2 to 3 or more (estimate) and the heat required to start the LENR function likewise reduced. This will be a major improvement in the performance. I have already proposed in Rossis forum to heat the core directly by inductive heating. This should improve response time and COP. Professor Levi is a consulting expert for industrial inductive heating at university of Bologna if I am not in error. At least they have such experts there. - Peter
