If Rossi can get his QuarkX to work in a plasma, does fuel preparation have any impact on the LENR reaction? R. Mills in his SunCell does not do any fuel prep in that reactor...just get a dirty plasma going and the plasma takes care of itself. Are you'll still chasing your tails here?
This is not a plasma reactor. Not all nails need hitting with the same kind of hammer. You can cook eggs straight from the shell, but peas need podding first.
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Understand the plotting issue. Here are the other equations. When I say C09, I mean the column that is marked "9" when reading in the .csv file.
Line voltage in ACrms = 16.08 * C11 + 6.304
Heater DC voltage in volts = 5.0302 * C09 - C08
Heater DC current in amps = C08 * 40.1606
Heater power = (Heater DC voltage) * (Heater DC current)
This is not a plasma reactor. Not all nails need hitting with the same kind of hammer. You can cook eggs straight from the shell, but peas need podding first.
Please explain how the QuarkX is not a plasma reactor.
Rossi podded peas for many years but the Lugano experiment revealed to him that eggs could be cooked straight from the shell. No more messy podding needs to be done, and who wants to eat peas, when you can have eggs?
BobHiggens said: "I don't understand the comment about some being better than others. If it is not LiAl4,
it is not going to decompose when it is supposed to. Somebody must have
gotten some oregano instead of the real stuff. But, you can be sure if
it comes from Alfa that it is the real stuff."
H2 for automotive use is sometimes stored in the car with metal hydrides. Over the range of 0 to 300C and a few atmospheres, hydrides can store and release more H2 than can be stored as a liquid. LH2 density is only .071 kg/liter. Maybe some of that is taking place.
Here are sample computed values (last 5 samples for each series), can you confirm they're correct?
DC Voltage (V)
2017-03-23 02:12:27.662440-04:00 6.107103
2017-03-23 02:12:28.885560-04:00 6.110393
2017-03-23 02:12:30.125679-04:00 6.107355
2017-03-23 02:12:31.357800-04:00 6.107355
2017-03-23 02:12:32.590930-04:00 6.107184DC Current (A)
2017-03-23 02:12:27.662440-04:00 1.923693
2017-03-23 02:12:28.885560-04:00 1.924898
2017-03-23 02:12:30.125679-04:00 1.923693
2017-03-23 02:12:31.357800-04:00 1.923693
2017-03-23 02:12:32.590930-04:00 1.924496Line Voltage (ACrms)
2017-03-23 02:12:27.662440-04:00 119.463784
2017-03-23 02:12:28.885560-04:00 119.274683
2017-03-23 02:12:30.125679-04:00 119.288673
2017-03-23 02:12:31.357800-04:00 119.453171
2017-03-23 02:12:32.590930-04:00 119.406539Heater Power (W)
2017-03-23 02:12:27.662440-04:00 11.748190
2017-03-23 02:12:28.885560-04:00 11.761880
2017-03-23 02:12:30.125679-04:00 11.748674
2017-03-23 02:12:31.357800-04:00 11.748674
2017-03-23 02:12:32.590930-04:00 11.753250EDIT:
Graph here: round1_powerdata.pdf
Yes, these look correct. What we will be looking for is for the power required for the regulated temperatures to be less with fuel than with no fuel. At 1150C, the expected power is about 190W. If it is much less power with the fuel, then the fuel must be sourcing some of the power (or there is a thermocouple failure). When the experiment is being ended, there will be regulated temperature states to monitor for a similar powers as was required when on the rise. A post-experiment calibration will also be run without fuel.
I am perhaps an hour away from re-starting the experiment. This will be the link for the new experimental data:
https://drive.google.com/drive…RwT0RFeGVjTjQ?usp=sharing
Things are warming up now. I will be checking the seal before starting the experiment.
Firstly, it is not clear that the reaction is LENR. Secondly, it is not clear whether the reaction happens in the plasma or at the Ni. We know so little about this that it is ridiculous to try to explain the source of the reaction.
It seems to me that the LENR reaction does not occur near the nickel electrodes because they don't melt. The plasma gets up to 2636 K or more. That temperature is beyond the melting point of nickel.
What timezone are the timestamps in your csv files? I previously assumed that they were in Eastern Time and didn't realize that somehow (due to automatic conversions performed in the processing I setup) they were showing in the graphs I posted as UTC times.
I am in mountain standard time. New Mexico.
Sorry guys, the experiment will not start today. I am still experiencing leak problems. Will try again tomorrow.
Sorry guys, the experiment will not start today. I am still experiencing leak problems. Will try again tomorrow
Thanks Bob. Even the non-scientists here can identify with that.
OK, no more funny stuff by me....tonight. 
Sorry guys, the experiment will not start today. I am still experiencing leak problems. Will try again tomorrow.
That's unfortunate.
I took the chance to improve the previous data visualization.
Pretty much any graph configuration is possible - suggestions welcome to improve readability.
I'm using Python and some well-known, open source libraries to handle the data and the graphing. I don't have a Matlab licence but nowadays for this sort of work it isn't really necessary anymore.
I have been transitioning computing languages for 40 years now and I hate it every time. I would like to say it gets easier, but although the constructs remain largely the same, the syntax and function names always end up being jumbled in my head. One of these days I will probably have to take up Python. Having said that, I will say that Labview was distinctly different - it is fundamentally multi-threaded.
Today I found the leak. It was in my reactor tube seal adapter. This is the design of the replacement ceramic tube seal that I installed the day before yesterday:
This was slipped over the ceramic end and was epoxied to the end of the ceramic tube. The material is brass and the 1/4" Swagelok seal is placed on the left hand side. The epoxy used is JB Weld which is good to about 350C. Here is what the assembly looked like:
Today I found that the epoxy did not make a complete seal. To fix it, I pulled a vacuum on the tube and applied more epoxy to be sucked into the void. Hopefully that will fix the leak when the epoxy cures.
What's the typical cure time of that epoxy?
It is rated as 15-24 hours for full cure. Note that the copper tape wrapped around the tube insures that the tube is in good contact with the heatsink. I measure the seal temperature on that compression seal nut. I measured less than 60C when the tube was at 1200C.
I think some information about how the reactor is constructed may be missing. It's my understanding that the current ClamShell iteration is composed of a ceramic tube, while the one presented last September, which I previously assumed this was a continuation of, had a stainless steel tube. In the linked document I found no mention of heatsinks either, so I'm not entirely certain what that would be for (although I could guess it's for keeping heat away from the seal nut).
