How many Celani wires can we fit in a tube?
It sounds like the start of a joke, doesn't it?
Many times we have thought about trying to amp up the signal to noise on these experiments by testing with more wires. Good news - it's time, and we need your help to determine the most expedient protocol. Here is the start we have:
Our Concentric Tube Calorimeter is ready for a new test. Which wires should we put into this test?
These are the wires we have and what we propose to install.
-400 layer - 1/2 meter - 40 cm installed
-350 layer - 1 meter - 40 cm installed
-270 layer - 1 meter - 40 cm installed
-400 layer - possibly damaged from version 1.3 cell overcurrent
Here is the LENR Stick we are preparing. Pictures of Multiwire Cell:
NiCr heating wire wrapped in fiberglass insulation sleeving up and down on the last 7-8 inches (20 cm) of LENR Stick reactor. Large fiberglass insulation sleeve over the whole end of the LENR Stick reactor. This will serve to hold the heater in place and to slightly insulate the reactor.
Thermocouple on the outside of the stainless steel reactor is the same spot as the two inside thermocouples. About 3-4 inches (10 cm) from the end of the reactor.
The whole reactor unit with two pass-throughs and 4 conductors that will allow us to measure the resistance on 3 wires. Plus it gives us two thermocouples on the inside of the reactor.
Experiment Open Engagement Plan
Here is our plan to develop this experiment:
- Develop plan to some extent (as we have here)
- post for criticism and suggestions. The large amount of wire in a small space should be interesting to watch, plus it tests many wires simultaneously and if we see nothing, we move on to another batch of wires.
- We should discuss the inclusion of acetone later in the test.
- Do we care about resistance drop? We’ll have the pressure drop. What is P(t0)? I expect we will charge to several bar and watch it decrease and then replenish, if necessary.
- What else have we had issues with in the past that we will want to prepare for or eliminate this time?
- We have heard that ST Microelectronics heated their wires passively, ramped up in long, small steps, and cycled the several times before seeing excess energy. Let's try that.
- Having the heater outside the stainless tube should mean that any energy generated inside the tube will create a higher temp inside than outside.
- How are the lengths of wire fit into the cell? We can sleeve them in fiberglass and we'll need some sort of insulation if we are going to measure the resistance of 3 of them. Or we have to insert them into ceramic tubes. Or support them and hold them apart in some other way?
- We have about 20 CM of length available in the tube, so the easiest thing is 40 cm of wire sleeved and folded in half and connected to the copper conductors on each end. Additional unconnected wires can be shoved into the tube in any length, I guess.
Throw out your suggestions into the comments!
Some Experiment Protocol Ideas
- Assemble test cell without active wires
- Use for calibration test of the calorimeter (at the prescribed run pressure of 0.5bar)
- Test for leaks at the same time - during long time at constant power - look for overall stability
- Watch for interior temps vs shell temps
- Take weight, length the wires
- SEM sample of each wire - characterize thickness of shell
- Install all the active wires we can spare. (Or do we install 40 cm worth so we can do it again?)
- How much vacuum and degassing, if any, do we want? Look to Celani and ST Microelectronics for guidance - no degassing beyond .5 mBar vacuum, just loading, small 6 hour steps and then cooling off after peak temperature.
- Pressure for Loading - will require several cycles maybe 10 cycles- do we want to cool and vacuum between recharging the pressure to purge any H20?
- Cool down
- Heat and trigger?
- Cool
- Add acetone (make sure design allows for this conveniently)
- heat to same level as previously
- Watch power output levels.
I am starting a formal procedure doc here Protocol: Multi-Wire Test (read only). We will update it from the suggestions we get in the comments. If anyone is super excited to help pull together the suggestions and edit the document, let me know. Thanks
-Ryan Hunt
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We are as frustrated as you, and understaffed!
There was a big downtime partly due to actually building experiments but mostly due to what turned out to be because of a failed hard drive in a raid, we are working out how we can move all data to the cloud, but that is going to take months. Then there was a software upgrade that went wrong - process has changed.
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To show live data in the experiment blog window. We have made good progress and this will greatly ease peoples ability to follow experiments. We are having to invent this as we go!
The log for this experiment is up to date. Data is nearly up to date.
The data is live for the EU V1.3 cells which are going through calibration however logbook isn't, but Mathieu records to paper also. Mathieu has been snowed under having had to do the last minute trip to the EU.
We have a team meeting tomorrow, we will address your concern.
Your goal was OPEN LIVE SCIENCE, fantastic and I like it. However the last several months the live data stream has been intermittent at best, and there do not seem to be ANY experimental logs for many of the experiments.Als o you are running many experiments for which it is very hard to find what they are for. I am close to not bothering to look anymore. The live data is essential and the logs for each experiment, and an accompanying explanation of the experiment needs to be updated daily. I appreciate the experiments are fascinating to you but they are to us too!
Ideally, the wiring would be performed by an external but skilled volunteer who signs a document indicating they have no clue of what "Celani wire" looks like as opposed to other wire. That person would be provided with two sets of wires, "1" and "2" and two setups "A" and "B." They would flip a coin and install a set of wires in "A" and a set of wires in "B," and document in a sealed envelope the connections between 1, 2, A, and B.
Only after the experiment's conclusion should those who have analyzed the data gain access to the envelope showing which cell was live and which was dead.
We have heard reports that the hydrocarbon breakdown frees hydrogen atoms that load the wire, too. I don;t know what effect it will have that our wire is already loaded. Probably more hydrogen in the resulting gasses.
We'll have to figure out if we want to stop at some point and vacuum the gasses out and over pressure with hydrogen.
Plus, since part of the volume of the cell is at room temp, we may have condensation of water and acetone in those areas. That means the actual concentration of acetone and water at the hot wire is close tot he vapor pressure of those at room temperature.
Yesterday 2 ml of acetone were added. Power was then applied at regular intervals. Internal pressure is stil increasing, currently at a linear rate. When power is removed from the cell, pressure remains elevated.
Is anybody able to explain what's going on inside the cell, chemically speaking?
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