[Stoves] TAO-Test (Three At Once)

[frank]

Dear Martin,

I think your TAO-test would work fine for developing alcohol, and gas 
stoves that use a constant  product.  But you put the 'cart before the 
horse' when developing the small natural fuel stoves. There are so many 
variable in small fuels that effect the burn that we first need to 
organize these differences and design stoves around then (specifically 
for them) before we can test for the best stove for that fuel. We have a 
lot of work to do as I see it

Regards
Frank



Boll, Martin Dr. wrote:

>Dear fellows of simple-stoves (tincanium, mud, etc.), simple stove-tests and
>all.
>
> 
>
>Thinking about differences in woodgas-burning in other topics, I think it
>worth to bring my idea of a TAO-Test (Three At Once) to discussion:
>
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>
>It is possibly too simple to mention, -because we all know, that nature
>makes it like that-, but I dare to do:
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>
>Proposal: Testing of simple stoves by the (-I call it-) three-at-once-test
>(TAO-test. That means:  Three identically stoves, but with (only) one
>(small) difference. The best tested of the three leads a step further (I
>hope/guess it does in most cases), and so the less-good two stoves have
>helped to find the right direction, to go further.
>
> 
>
>By that: It was helpful to construct those stoves out of changeable parts,
>to make a new TAO-Test under new conditions easier and quicker.
>
>So it is possible to draw a "genealogic-tree" of the tested stoves.
>
>-That includes in my idea changeable parts of clay! (Get them easily sealed
>with mud, to endure a TAO-test-burn)-
>
>-Chrispin, from that point of view I asked a lot of months ago about forms
>to cast stove-parts. You have been elsewhere on travel and you did certainly
>not get the information. I have to re-look for what I asked precisely-
>
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>-In some cases, there could be (tripel/TAO-)tested sectional differences in
>the round/cercle of the same stove, to determine the favourite
>dimension/shape; e.g. for secondary air-holes.
>
>The favour of the TAO-test is a step (and be it only small.) forward to more
>perfection (or less misfortune!!) by each triple-test, -without knowing in
>advance which of the three is the favourite one.
>
>-By that, it could be helpful to propose some "construction-standards" to be
>able to connect parts and to compare tests. 
>
>-Possibly working with cans, we had to describe these cans (by measure and
>forming, and not only by the cans "coffee-name") to be exactly known/used
>internationally.
>
>But that would be task of the specialists and practitioners.
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>
>Let us have fun with the small difference(s).
>
>in stoving!
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>
>Martin
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