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Pot Arrangement | 1 | 2 |
Lights Turned Off | 14, 18, 20, 17 | 14, 18, 20, 17 |
Figure 2 - Pot Configuration and Lighting for Series Cooking Tests
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Pot Arrangement | 1 |
Lights Turned Off | All Lights On |
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Figure 3 - Pot Configuration and Lighting for New Door Test Results |
Heating in Parallel
We performed four different tests to evaluate the effects of water mass on cooking speed in the solar cooker. We varied the test by adding an additional 3-lb of water filled pot to each successive test. Figure 4 below shows the plots of temperature vs. time for the four parallel cooking tests. While the boiling time increased with water mass, the increase was not a direct relationship. The time to boil four pots of water (12 lbs) was far less than four times the amount of time to boil 1 pot of water (3 lbs).
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