<[email protected]> wrote:
> >Off by an order of magnitude! It is 14 hours per step. > > 13.8 ? > Give or take. I have only seen one graph of a calibration step, but I doubt he comes flying into the lab at 3 a.m. to stop it at 13.8 hours exactly. To do a calibration, you step up the power in the morning, and again in the evening before you go home, increasing about 5 W each time. I would recommend you also drop back from 50 W to 25 W or so to make sure nothing has changed. You collect all the data and throw away the first few hours after each step up. You average from hour 3 to 18 (I guess -- eyeballing this sample). If it is working, you end up with a fairly straight line that starts at the origin, 0,0. It bends slightly down at higher temperatures. Do it wrong and the line intercepts at a positive or negative place and it wavers around, or it bends the wrong way. The first calibration data Mizuno sent me did that. I said, "what gives?!?" and after a few days he said, "Oops, I just realized the sensor on the outside of the cell is loose. Disregard that data." He calibrated with a vacuum and with different gases at different pressures, as shown in Fig. 22. The temperature at the center of the cell, where the electrode is located, varied only a little under these different conditions. That is surprising. The temperature on the outside cell wall did not vary with gas pressure or the type of gas, as you would expect. Look closely at the papers at LENR-CANR and you will find some odd calorimetry. I once saw a lavishly funded project with a calibration curve that intercepted at plus several watts, meaning they have a perpetual motion machine. Not really. It means they didn't notice it wasn't working. If you can't even do that . . . You can't do cold fusion. (I do not think that was published.) One of the people who tried to replicate Celani after ICCF17 calibrated from A to B with a wire, and then ran the same wire from B to C (at a higher temperature range). Nope, sorry, that does not work either. Who would think to do that?!? - Jed
