Steorn FLIR camera analysis

People have noticed how the toroids in the FLIR camera show heat, but not the pickup coil. Careful analysis shows that during the start of the Steorn Talks the toroids were close to room temperature. As time goes on in the Talks, the toroids heat up. At ~ 9.5 minutes into the Talks you will notice that the toroids are considerably warmer, a their peak temperature. After that the toroids begin to cool down in temperature.

Does the above sound like odd behavior for the toroids to be cold, then quickly heat up, then cool down again? The logical explanation is that at some point the Orbo was not spinning, yet turned on, which would cause DC current to flow from directly from the battery into the toroids.

Does that make sense? Indeed it does because if we look close at the FLIR images we’ll see that the toroids went up to 39.7°C (103.5°F) !  I’ve done far too many heat flow number crunching to know that it would take a considerably amount of power to heat that amount of plastic and magnetic material from 22.3°C to 40°C.

For those who have experience doing heat flow number crunching, it will be obvious that the Orbo spinning on magnetic bearings that consumes 1.5mW to 2mW of friction will not normally produce that amount of heat. Not even close.

Still not convinced? The proof is that the Orbo, while still spinning during the demonstration, began cooling down, as seen in the FLIM images toward the end of the Talks, even though it was still spinning. So the normal operating temperature of the Orbo is not what was seen in the middle of the Talks. And why would Steorn want to leave the Orbo standing still at some point while turned on? The obvious answer is so that people can see something on the FLIR image. A device of that size, with that amount of plastic, that produces a few milli will show up as room temperature on the FLIR camera, not 40°C.

I am not affiliated with Steorn. Orbo is trademarked by Steorn.

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