Thank you and nice thoughts regarding control/gain. I had missed the RF wires.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat <aussieguy.e...@gmail.com>wrote: > Rossi has said that each of the 107 E-Cat reactor boxes in the 1 MW demo > had a individual control system. Running in self sustain mode, with the > heater not being activated, the only other wires going into the reactor box > are those called RF as per the attachment. One would then assume these > wires have something to do with controlling the reactor in self sustain > mode. > > I also note that Fe was found in the analysed fuel sample. Was the Fe a > ferrite powder and does Rossi use the RF wires to apply low frequency EM > induction to the Fe / ferrite powder to somehow assist control of the speed > / gain / of the reactor when running in self sustain mode? > > I see the E-Cat as a sort of a amplified on the verge of breaking into > oscillation where in self sustain mode, with a output heat energy feedback > into the input, gain must somehow be closely controlled less you get > oscillation, while in heater applied mode, control is much easier as you > can control the input heat via the heater energy. > > Maybe the Fe and the "RF" assist the self sustained mode control? Ferrites > when moving up and down their BH curves do undergo slight physical > dimensional changes. Can these ferrite shape changes cause the Ni nano > powder, which I assume packs very densely, to alter the number of Ni atoms > that are available to the H- ions? Assuming the Fe is a ferrite and it has > a high permeability, this could create a lot of localized micro magnetic > fields inside the packed Ni nano powder. > > I also note that Rossi said the genset was running because of safety. Did > he mean that if one of the E-Cats, running in high gain self sustain mode > got out of control, he would then drop the reactor gain, dropping them out > of self sustain mode and switch back to heater mode to regain control of > all the E-Cats? > > Somehow Rossi seems to be able to control the gain of the reaction and in > heater mode run at a lower reactor gain with external heat applied (more > safety as he seems to imply) and when self sustain mode is required, which > he does not seem to like, (maybe he has seen 1 too many reactor melt downs) > boost the gain so as to use the generated heat as input to the reaction but > at the risk of a run away reactor. > > Rossi did say that the reason he limited the 1 MW visitors to 2 was > because of the time it would take to evacuate the reactor room if something > went wrong. I do suggest Rossi has seen these reactors go very wrong and > was generally worried about visitor safety. > > Just some thoughts from down under. > > AG > > > > On 11/10/2011 2:51 AM, Jeff Sutton wrote: > >> Hello. I have been following Rossi and the posts since the beginning and >> am very fascinated. >> Rather than a fraud, I believe Rossi is on to something incrementally >> better than those that came before. He has more success starting the >> reaction, however I think he has little control over it once started >> To that supposition, can others comment on how they believe control >> exists? (For discussion purpose, please suspend any thoughts that it is a >> scam.) >> >> 1. Rossi, with all his comments, seems to suggest that it takes time >> >> to heat up the ecat to get things started, however from the >> demonstrations, they do not seem to have started in any scheduled >> way. He does, however, seem to get the ecat started within a few >> hours give or take so that is fantastic. >> 2. He has shown it in "self-sustaining" mode but always shuts it down >> >> after a few hours with some excuse. Why does he do that when the >> blockbuster note would be "the ecat just keeps on going." I >> suggest this must mean that the ecat cannot just keep on running >> for 6 months has he notes; at least in self-sustaining mode. and >> if not in self-sustain mode, then what does he do to "reset" the >> reactor? Use his heating element? that makes no sense. Add >> Hydrogen? Again that makes no sense as he could put a regulator >> on this and do such automatically. What resets the operation? >> 3. He noted in the 2nd to last demo that he had a frequency generator >> >> and it had been hidden all along, but in the last demo he notes >> there isn't one. Does this suggest that he was trying something >> new to help in start up or make it run longer? Or was this >> mis-direction? Where was this device or wires for it in previous >> tests? >> 4. How does he control the reaction? His only control seems to be >> >> the heating element and the flow of water over the reactor. But >> in all experiments, until quenching, the water flow seemed to be >> constant. And one generating "substantial" heat, clearly >> controlling the reaction with a heating element very unlikely. Is >> contol simply due to the pre-start conditions (the amount of >> hydrogen, nickel, geometry) and it runs "out of control" for a few >> hours? >> >> Any advice on how the control works would be most interesting. >> >> In any event, forget all the nonsense with his lousy engineering design >> and terrible business skills; few are good at all things. If Rossi has >> found a way to get the reaction going and produce significant excess >> energy, he has changed the world and should be recognized for this. >> >> >
