Blog #6 - End of Week 2

 Friday was the last day of testing and it’s been interesting to see the results between the three heat-rise experiments. The previous two experiments were with unregulated power meaning, the amount of power isn’t controlled, it’s 100% power because we wanted to see the capabilities of the incubator. For this experiment, we used two 12 volt batteries to see how much power the incubator used and if there are differences between battery and power source. We also didn’t have the MRI radiofrequency coil inside similar to the experiment before. It was another two and a half hour experiment and collecting the data was the same except I didn’t have to record the amps. The results were similar to the prior test (without RF coil) which didn’t really surprise me. Once I finished all three experiments, Ravi and I sat down together and started looking at the data and graphs (made from collected data). For the most part, the graphs looked like Ravi’s example graph beside the ending part of the graph on the first one because it heated higher than the tester could read which is expected because again, we had unregulated power (100% power). Ravi explained to me how the data collected and math excel did connect with each other. For example, excel showed temperature difference between the average of four points and the center point. Once we went over the three sets of data and graphs, we talked about what’s next. Ravi said we were done with week 2 and experimenting and next week, I will work on finishing up my trifold/poster project. My hopes are to finish the poster by Monday night/Tuesday morning, so Ravi could look over it and I have time to revise it.

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  1. KatrinaDecember 17, 2021 at 4:00 PM

    Sasha, this is so interesting! It must have been exciting for the experiments have pretty much the expected results. This sounds like such an amazing learning experience about medical entrepreneurship and scientific experimentation!

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