As to why 3-phase power for the FIRST test?
The reactors have been designed for industrial use, and to be a part of the 1MW shipping container unit. Do you really think that they are going to plug that thing into a single-phase outlet!! That is laughable. No, they are going to use 3-phase power, and the control box was built for a 3-phase supply. Occam's razor applies here and the simplest explanation is that the first test was done with the control box as designed for the industrial unit. My guess is that the team asked Rossi if he could convert the control box to a single phase supply for the second test to simplify input power measurement. and that was done. -Mark Iverson From: Joshua Cude [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: I said The measurement task has been made unnecessarily difficult by specifying 3-phase input to the control box. Normal single-phase input would suffice here, given the power levels. There is nothing "difficult" about measuring 3-phase power. It's far less common, and completely unnecessary, especially if the output is single-phase. It's suspicious because it forces the experimenters to use a specific line in the room. It's also suspicious because it supplies a much higher power, and that may have been necessary in the run where the ceramic melted. And regardless of how long it's been around, it is more difficult to measure power than from a simple single-stage ac input. Why complicate things unnecessarily, if not to slip a little deception past some credulous scientists?
