On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Alan Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote:
> > From: "Joshua Cude" <joshua.c...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:38:17 AM > > > The 3-phase looks more like obfuscation to me. > > Gee .. I'd better take my Electric clothes dryer in for de-obfuscating. > > And there I was thinking it was trapped lint. > > > You want lots of power, you go straight to three-phase. Right, but I thought the ecat was supposed to provide the lots of power. They *changed* the power for the Dec and March runs, and never used more than 1 kW, and averaged only 400W. Is that how much your dryer consumes? > This is a test rig he's using, so of course it's over-engineered. This is a con job, so of course it's over-engineered. Just like the 500 kW power supply connected to a megacat producing 500 kW heat. > You really think that (after building a 3-phase controller-triac test rig) > that he should redesign it just for the March test? He *did* redesign it. He stopped using the triac, and replaced it with a different control circuit. That could most certainly have been single-phase, but then how to get them to use the right plug?
