Or rather, I have met someone who seriously seemed to believe in it.
The surprise was, that it was an otherwise serious and competent person hosting him.
And a poor grad student was building a "model T test kit" like this one:
http://ift.tt/2d6qY81
It involved some of the lousiest engineering practice I have seen for a long time, among other things regulating the furnace by switching on and off the mains voltage to the power supply with a PID-controller and an SSR, rather than switching the low voltage DC between the power supply and furnace (could be done with a MOSFET or a power transistor).
And it intends to measure minute temperature variations with Chinese type K thermocouples.
And a PWM motor controller has been placed between the power supply and furnace to chop up the current in a magical 10 kHz square sine wave, that is essential for the fusion.
Should it be adjusted, this would further serve to screw up the PID-values.
And he got offended when it dawned on me what was going on, and I said:"Oh, you are attempting cold fusion?".
I honestly thought, that cold fusion died long ago!
The surprise was, that it was an otherwise serious and competent person hosting him.
And a poor grad student was building a "model T test kit" like this one:
http://ift.tt/2d6qY81
It involved some of the lousiest engineering practice I have seen for a long time, among other things regulating the furnace by switching on and off the mains voltage to the power supply with a PID-controller and an SSR, rather than switching the low voltage DC between the power supply and furnace (could be done with a MOSFET or a power transistor).
And it intends to measure minute temperature variations with Chinese type K thermocouples.
And a PWM motor controller has been placed between the power supply and furnace to chop up the current in a magical 10 kHz square sine wave, that is essential for the fusion.
Should it be adjusted, this would further serve to screw up the PID-values.
And he got offended when it dawned on me what was going on, and I said:"Oh, you are attempting cold fusion?".
I honestly thought, that cold fusion died long ago!
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