By reactance, I misspoke, meaning impedance, but you get the point. If each "wafer" has its own core heater, the input current would have to triple to support three cells.
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:40:24 -0600 > Subject: Re: [Vo]: ECAT With 3 Cores Would Have Been Convincing > From: robert.leguil...@hotmail.com > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > > /snip/ > "Actually, there is no reason to believe that it will require additional > input energy to activate the 2 extra cores. He has a COP of 6 when all are > used which results in an output of 1558 * 6 = 9348 each ECAT of 107 total. I > used the test data to determine that this was entirely in line with the > results expected in the driven mode. He did not use 3 for his test....the > output of the 1 MW system proved that indirectly." > /snip/ > If the 3 cells are in parallel, you have 3 core heaters. Tripling the number > of parallel loads, would result in one third of the circuit's reactance, and > therefore three times the total current... > V x A(3) = Power(3) > Tripling input power