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- From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Status #7 Cell 4A3
- Message-ID: <19336@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:11:37 GMT
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- > DROEGE@fnald.fnal.gov writes:
- >
- > ...
- > temperature range we are operating with the shell servo off and floating.
- > A
- > curious observation is that we are more sensitive to the outside air
- > temperature than to the room temperature. So while the room temperature is
- > relatively constant, the calorimeter "sees" the outside through the dewar,
- > 1
- > 1/2" of foam, a (now) floating aluminum radiation shield, 1 1/2" foam, 10'
- > of
- > air, and an R19 house wall or R30 roof.
-
-
- Is is possible that your apparatus is not directly "seeing" the
- outside temperature, but seeing the effect of cold weather on the power
- supply to your house. Cold outside temperatures will result in greater power
- draws by people using electrical heating, and may give altered line voltages
- and possibly increased line transients as kilowatt sized units in neighboring
- houses switch on and off under thermostatic control. Is there any part of
- the apparatus which is not operated of highly regulated, filtered power?
-
-
- --
- Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca
-