Er'cana pellets

Nabby · **Joined:** Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:34 pm **Posts:** 73

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Dangerous? Poor old Waldman. Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have your never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy. -- Henry Frankenstein

::puts on cooking apron and turns on timer::

oldbushie · **Joined:** Thu May 03, 2007 3:42 pm **Posts:** 73

Shouldn't there be a thermodyanmics equation or something that says how much energy you get from putting a certain mass through a certain amount of time, pressure, and temperature?

Gadren · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 12:35 am **Posts:** 747

Y'Fish had a very interesting comparison of Er'cana to sewage treatment plants:
http://www.uruobsession.com/forum/index ... 179a4b76a6

oldbushie · **Joined:** Thu May 03, 2007 3:42 pm **Posts:** 73

Also, I'm in agreement with an earlier post about how the pellets shouldn't have too much energy; I think the closer we get to a certain percentage the score of the pellets goes up. Which is why it is very important to know both the score and the power obtained.

Oh, and YFish's observations are most likely correct. XD

Deledrius · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:36 pm

My test yesterday of two ovens at 21|30|20 and two at 40|30|20 produced a bright orange effect, 60% meter, and an average of 811 points each (800-825).

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Also, I'm in agreement with an earlier post about how the pellets shouldn't have too much energy; I think the closer we get to a certain percentage the score of the pellets goes up. Which is why it is very improtant to know both the score and the power obtained.

Oh, good thinking. I bet the target goal is a certain percentage (not 100%). From the looks of my 60% pellets, I bet it's somewhere around there. The 75% bahrocave pellets are too hot. Has anyone so far had any meter reading above 75% that was less hot than the bahrocave pellets?

Kevin8020 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:30 pm

I just put a batch through at 45-30-25 and had an average output of 959.6. Also 60% on the meter. I'm guessing this is right. I bet the meter is calibrated for bahro cave pellets, not lake ones.

Simon_Bitdiddle · **Joined:** Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:32 am **Posts:** 334

I've popped in a new batch of pellets, the ovens are set in a cascade starting from 1/50/50 to 4/50/50. Let's see what happens!

(Edit) 10 points. #include priceIsRightFailureHorns.wav

Robert The Rebuilder · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:38 pm

Kevin8020 wrote:

I just put a batch through at 45-30-25 and had an average output of 959.6. Also 60% on the meter. I'm guessing this is right. I bet the meter is calibrated for bahro cave pellets, not lake ones.

Holy cow, Kevin! Great score!

You should enter that into agrif's pellet score database (click here for the link).

dogpenny · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:41 pm

I did a batch at 45 35 50 and had pellets 966,792,875 and 888.

Herohtar · **Joined:** Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:45 pm **Posts:** 2553

What is the highest anyone has gotten the meter to go?

belford · **Joined:** Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:01 pm **Posts:** 1890

"Shouldn't there be a thermodyanmics equation or something that says how much energy you get from putting a certain mass through a certain amount of time, pressure, and temperature?"

No -- it depends entirely on the chemical composition, and how the chemistry is affected by different conditions.

Also, the energy that we're is not a simple measurement of what's in the pellet. It's a matter of what the algae can metabolize. Pouring gunpowder into the lake is not going to help. :)

Kevin8020 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:57 pm

Robert The Rebuilder wrote:

Kevin8020 wrote:

I just put a batch through at 45-30-25 and had an average output of 959.6. Also 60% on the meter. I'm guessing this is right. I bet the meter is calibrated for bahro cave pellets, not lake ones.

Holy cow, Kevin! Great score!

You should enter that into agrif's pellet score database (click here for the link).

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I just did another batch, same recipe, and had a 968 average. I wonder why it went up.......

belford · **Joined:** Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:01 pm **Posts:** 1890

I'm seeing a standard deviation of 4 to 8 in each batch of five pellets.

Non-math-geek translation: pellets in a batch will usually vary by that much. If the average differs in that range, it's not hugely surprising.

SillyEagle · **Joined:** Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:19 am **Posts:** 264

Uh oh... I think I've lost all my pellets! :oops:

The batch was done... as soon as I got back in after the update...
I touched the blue button again, and one dropped through but did NOT appear anywhere else. [not in the tray]

So I fiddled around with things instead of asking first and pulled the lever. Now the dome clamped down over the remaining pellets and I can't do anything? What happened? Do I start all over again? Thanks! :cry:

Preachr46 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:18 pm

I've been using this formula: 25-35-40

Gives a nice bright orange glow, about 65% on the meter, and averaging 875 per pellet.

I thought we were supposed to go for bright orange, not just how high we can go on the meter and the score?

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