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Smaller heater – part II
Progressing on our heater story – did a longer test which clearly demonstrated that we don’t have enough power. Simply running a heater for 220V on 60V is not giving enough umpf. So Serge stepped in and proposed coming back to the plan A – 220V. However first things first little bit of additional grinding…
Smaller heater – part I
Having a major success with our BIG tubes, we decided that we’ll prepare tubes for a whole frame. While Serge inclined to use our current technology for the rest, I already had a plan to repeat our production process and get some light and awesome ~25mm ones. When planning ahead, in February 2023 I reached…
Envelope Demo – preparations
So we are now trying to build envelope coming with shape around something like this: As you may see it is quite simple concept of joining two ellipsoids with interlaced cylinder reaching maximum diameter of 2m. So the front part is traditional ellipsoid with w=2.5 (A), followed by a central cylinder w=1 (B), closed by…
Venturi effect
As per our last post we ended up with some kind of mysterious power gain. Having few ideas we’ve been able to rule out all at the point when Richard clearly stated that it is the Venturi effect! So what’s the Venturi effect again? The Venturi effect is the reduction in fluid pressure that results…
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