Lugano resistance drop re-visited
Could the drop in apparent resistance of the reactor heater element in the Lugano report be in part due to the core ceramic conducting at high temperature and partial shorting between the 3 phases?
There have been burn outs, core breaches, melted heater wire, hot spots and arcing thermocouples over the months.
Alan Goldwater deduced there was a drop in resistance in the ultra pure Al203 Coorstek cores we were using.
Discussion: http://goo.gl/TxtE0h
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Additionally, SiO2 based ceramics resulted in plain shorts causing loss of thermocouples.
More recently, Adriano Bassignana made us aware of the Nernst Lamp
https://goo.gl/R89Zbz
Of course, most replicators reactors to date have been single phase. So the differential between two adjacent coil loops where ceramic conductivity has increased would be lower than that between a parallel, helically wound, 3 phase coil.
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Quote: was probably intended to be:
Quote: Try imagining this as it was Rossi saying it on the phone to his patent attorney.
(sorry, I didn't know where else to put this)
Closing the loop would do it too. i.e. all control and stimulation power harnessed from output to run reactor for beyond chemical possibility.
This is the kind of Discussion that Bob Higgins and I had.
This and the wrong use of Emissivity means that for me, it all comes down to seeing statistically significant transmutations.
You will not perhaps think this relevant but:
3 phase makes it very easy to get an apparent COP=3 for free by inverting one of the input clamps on the power meter.
Without a proper power meter 3 phase makes input power measurement problematic.
The complexity makes errors in input power measurement, whether unintentional or deliberate, much more possible.
All quantities RMS
For the same 3 resistive elements of equal resistance and 3 phase full waveform of line voltage V (we can revisit that later):
Y - resistor voltage is V, current is V/R, Power is V^2R
Delta -
resistor voltage is V|(1- (-0.5+0.866j))| = sqrt(3)V,
resistor current is sqrt(3)V/R,
power is I^2R = 3V^2R
The key thing is that delta increases element voltage by sqrt(3) over line voltage. compared with Y.
The Y equivalent resistance is reduced by the square of this (a factor of 3).
see wikipedia for details.
So for this to work we need:
Dummy run: Wye
Active run: Delta
Motivation? For limited range of V in from control box delta with give higher power than Y.
There are other darker possible motivations.
But motivation is all speculation.
What is fact is that the numbers given make sense for this change in setup, and given that the reactor must have been disconnected and reconnected such a change is possible.
The testers should have recorded this change, but we know that their work had issues in other areas - most notably a singular lack of controls of any kind (no independent temperature measurement, no dummy reactor at same power) and an error in how they calculated temperatures.
Nick Oseyko said
"I had tried heating mullite pipe with torch back in May. Becomes very conductive before melting. 1 cm gap was about 100 ohms."
Given that there was barely more than a few millimetres between phases in the Lugano reactor, and a large potential difference between them, this effect cannot be dismissed easily.
I did posit the idea almost immediately, as did others, of the Y-D change in and outside MFMP discussions as a potentially part of solving the mystery. I did some calculations as others did, but I am no expert on 3-phase, perhaps you could share your calculations.
Which I don't mind, but it does make discussion there less informed than one would wish.
lenr-canr.org/.../...
I don't claim any personal insights, nearly everything I now understand comes from other people ideas cleaned up and rehashed till it is consistent.
My current view of the resistance drop is this. The dummy tests were conducted with a Y configuration of resistors. Between dummy and active tests the configuration was changed to Delta.
This is possible given that the resistor wires are connected some way away from the reactor.
Why it was done? You can think of various reasons.
Why it was not recorded in the write-up? Bad practice - but in ;line with other such, so entirely possible. In theory it makes no difference to the power measurement - though in practice it could have an effect.
So - given this theory there is no resistance change, since the electrical configuration change exactly accounts for the resistance. (Actually there is still a 5% or so discrepancy, but asymmetry in the resistances, very likely, or different connection wire length, can account for that).
That would then also mean the resistance elements could be Inconel.
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