At 07:27 AM 7/22/2011, Robert Leguillon wrote:
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Two heaters. The internal heater makes sense for bringing up the
Ni-H to operating temperatures (and, presumably, keep it there).
It's the purpose of the external heater that's puzzling.
How authoritative is that drawing? It's from Passerini, and is
labeled "speculative rendering." This is no source at all for the structure.
The external heater would rapidly raise the coolant to boiling, thus
expediting turn-on. It's a very strange method of control, if the
external heater is thought to be a control. The real control, with
much more rapid response, would be the internal heater.
If the 300 W is going into the external band heater, in those demos,
what's left for the internal heater?
Something is radically off here.
