Re: [Vo]:Re: Defkalion GT send video of internal testing

[Alan Fletcher]

Hmmm ... very cylindrical. I think that my Concentric Conductive Calorimeter 
would work quite well, and give the heat output as well as just a spot COP 
test. Summary -- wrap the hyperion in cylinders of highly conductive putty, 
then low conductivity putty and another high conductivity cylinder -- with the 
ends capped off by aerogel insulators. (I couldn't find anything exactly like 
my CCC in the literature). The inner high-conductivity cylinder evens out any 
hotspots/shape irregularities of the hyperion, and the outer evens out any 
difference in heat conduction/convection/radiation to ambient. The heat 
transfer is related to the radii of the middle cylinder and the temperature 
difference across it by a very simple formula. [ ISTR Q = k dT / ln(R2/R1) 
where k is the conductivity ]