https://e-catworld.com/2021/02/26/rossi-e-cat-skl-more-suited-to-resistive-th... Faced with people asking him to help out with Texas, Rossi has begun answering a few questions concerning the limitations of E-Cat power output off the initial 100 cell power block unit he has running in his lab. He only lets go of scant dribs and drabs of information and that is scattered all over his responses all over the place,
which makes this particular synopsis very suspect as it has no single quotable origin,
Each of the 100 reactor cells has a up down nature as individual reactors attempt to run wild and get reigned back in by the controller. The controller switches between reactor cells fairly quickly, but the reaction to a controller change has some lag time involved in it.
With 100 of them, you tend to stay roughly in the middle for your "averaged" output, but your variation in your power voltage and current flow in each individual reactor is the full range of variation permitted by the controller (which is pretty wide due to lag when throttling back down from a spike) with the volts and amps constantly changing within the combined output signal.
This is bad ---- in the electrical world as this is called "trash noise" for a very good reason.
This means a normal electric motor has trouble with direct use of E-Cat power as they were all designed to run off main line power which has very very little inherent variation and an extremely regular syn wave form. Electric motors are tuned very tightly so as to be efficient, and the sloppy E-Cat power drives them nuts, as in the motor won't run and/or the motor overheats.
Electronics also have problems running directly off E-Cat power for all these same reasons.
Using a smaller initial set of 3 switched abuse resistant batteries used in rotation (one is charging, one is stabilizing and cooling, while the last one is discharging to the main storage batteries) as a down voltage and stabilization stage is indeed helpful, but the smaller buffer batteries seem to get quickly degraded by the jagged input charging power from the E-Cat reactor bank. Larger battery size could help fight this charging degradation.
The normal output voltage range of E-Cat is simply wrong for most normal existing electrical devices (it is way too high in voltage and very low in amperage). This is a challenge for ABB Electrics to overcome, as they need both a storage system and a means of lowering the voltage that is both reliable and cheap to do.
Putting the E-Cat to work charging the large main battery bank (structured as smaller half sized segregated sub-batteries) could make sense here as final filtered power from the non-charging bank could be supplied to the controller for the bank that is being charged. This might provide a method to the voltage to the controller set to be stable and usable (assuming the E-Cat voltage has been lowered to the correct levels and
all the charging noise is removed when the charging was switched over to the other sub-bank).
ABB and Rossi are having issues as "noisy controller power" aggravates all the issues with the E-Cat control system. This is why the autonomous E-Cat isn't being presented just yet, nor are there any rumors flowing out from the development work since ABB is the source of the electronics development work and ABB DOES NOT LEAK AT ALL, ever.
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Rossi confirms that the "electrical trash noise" is why he always uses mains power to run his controller installations and
why there never been an autonomous E-Cat built yet so far.
Folks are theorizing that the main battery bank could be split into two functional banks with one bank being stabilized and then that bank would be suitable to use to drive the controller for charging the other bank. Then they switch off duties and the drained bank gets charged.
Simple restive loads (like heaters) do seem work OK right now, but that is simply not enough of a use to make up a marketable product right now.