The temperature the bath reaches depends upon the input power you deliver to
the system as well as any excess heat that may be generated by the electrodes
and the ability of your system to trap heat. If you are delivering 12 watts to
your device and getting a temperature rise of 60 F from ambient then you must
have relatively low heat loss unless of course you are seeing lots of heat
being generated.
The maximum temperature seen thus far with my present experimental setup was
130 F with an ambient of 74 F. I had 28.7 watts of drive at that time. I am
using a large electrolyte bath that is open to the air and one benefit is that
I can dissipate a large amount of power before my electrolyte reaches boiling.
This allows me to increase the current density significantly. It is currently
within the bounds of the successful level for the palladium deuterium systems.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Cole <jcol...@gmail.com>
To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 10:00 pm
Subject: Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate
It seems like from the experiments I've run that if you want heat, put enough
borax in so that it settles to the bottom. Then put your electrodes down into
the borax powder in the bottom. Eventually, the borax powder disappears
leaving yellowish nearly transparent crystals on the electrodes and in the
bottom of the cell. It is easy to get 120+F temps with an air temperature of
60F using 12V @ 1amp.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Paul Stout <paulst...@att.net> wrote:
My anode is a motor brush so its surface area is larger than that of the
nickel coin.
I have increased the current to 400 milliamps. With the active and
control beakers in series, the power supply is at 30 volts to drive that
current.
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I was hoping to avoid the higher currents, which could mask any
anomalous heat being generated.
Paul
On 10/3/2012 1:57 PM, Jack Cole wrote:
I had a lot of heat, whether it is "anomalous" or not, I don't know. I
think it is somehow resistance heating through the borax or chemistry with
creating boric acid. Just a speculation. I had heat >130F (I say it this
way because my thermometer was electroplated or something causing it to
register 20F too high. It read 158 or so at the max). To get more heat,
you need an anode with as much surface area as your nickel. I used 12V at
1 amp.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Paul Stout <paulst...@att.net>
wrote:
I have increased the current in my setup to 200 milliamps. It
has been running at that current level for more than 12 hours now
and no anomalous heat has shown up yet.
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Has anybody been able to replicate Chuck Sites results? I
have not seen any claims to that yet.
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Paul
