In reply to Robert Leguillon's message of Sun, 5 Feb 2012 14:57:35 -0600: Hi, [snip] >So, they made a control run, with a purely resistive load, but then used a >different input power on the CF run? >It seems that the red output delta T/input power is then scaled up for the >lower CF input power. Why was the same input power as the control run not used >in the CF run? This doesn't seen to be an apples-to-apples comparison. >Why?
My guess would be that in the control run you need to input more power to see a temperature rise. Note that the input power is probably consumed by different mechanisms between the two runs. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html