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Chapter 73 Wind Tunnel Testing
After introducing everyone present, everyone began to move the plasma engine to the test bench in a hurry, then fixed the engine, and then debugged various test instruments. When all preparations were completed Then the wind tunnel testing began.

Following the crown prince's order: "Start!"

With the power switch being turned on.As the sound of the engine gradually sounded, all the people present turned their attention to the huge display screen standing aside.

All the people present except Zhu Lei and the crown prince who are half full of water are all the elites in the aviation industry of the Ming Empire. Even Zhu Lei and the crown prince are relatively familiar with this aspect among those of the same age. Deep, so of course the data on the screen can be understood.

And this time the energy used to test the engine here is naturally the gold battery produced by Zhu Lei and his factory. After all, the power required by the plasma thruster during work is too huge, not ordinary power transmission equipment. It is unbearable, and this plasma thruster still uses direct current, while the general high-voltage transmission circuits with millions of volts are all alternating current, and power transformation equipment is needed to convert alternating current into direct current.

However, because the power used by this plasma thruster is too large in an instant, ordinary transformer equipment is not enough at all, and professional transformer equipment must be used. For high-energy power transformation equipment, you must know that the hourly power of this plasma thruster has reached hundreds of thousands of kilowatts per hour. If it is the maximum output power, then the power consumption of this ion thruster must be at least [-] kilowatts per hour. Nearly one million kilowatts of electricity per hour, not to mention Ming, even if there is no such power conversion equipment in the whole world, even Zhu Lei's own factory does not have such power conversion equipment.

Even Zhu Lei's substation equipment for charging gold-fine batteries is not good. Although the power conversion equipment for charging gold-fine batteries is sufficient in terms of output voltage, there is still a huge gap in current. It usually takes nearly a week for a gold battery to charge a substation equipment to fully charge it, but the electricity charged for a week can only provide energy for half an hour on the plasma thruster.

With the strengthening of the power output, the speed of the ion thruster is getting faster and faster, and the corresponding reaction force is getting stronger and stronger, so the data update on the screen is also getting faster and faster.And the mouths of all the people present except Zhu Lei, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Li are getting bigger and bigger. It's not that Zhu Lei and the others can't understand the data on the display screen, but they have already experienced it. , and this engine was designed and manufactured by them, so it is natural.

When the power output reaches the maximum, the output power of the plasma thruster also reaches the maximum.At this time, the tail flame of the plasma thruster had turned from blue to a faint green. Zhu Lei knew that this was the light emitted by the collision between the high-speed plasma ejected from the plasma thruster and molecules such as oxygen in the air. During the day, if it is at night, these green tail flames will reach several kilometers in length, and they are very beautiful.

The ion thruster is different from the general traditional thruster. As long as the power output is stable, the output power of the thruster is also very stable. It will not have a very large data change like a traditional engine, and the temperature of the tail flame will not change. The temperature of the tail flame of the traditional engine is so high, and there is no toxic and harmful gas produced. The output power of this plasma engine is very stable even when it is at its maximum. Only a number at the end of the data has There will be some fluctuations from time to time, but this has no impact on the overall data at all.

The test time this time is about the same as Zhu Lei's first test in the fief, which is about half an hour, because the power of a gold battery will be exhausted after about half an hour, so the test is natural. just stopped.

The data of the supersonic wind tunnel test here this time is very good, it can be said to be very perfect, even somewhat beyond Zhu Lei's own expectations, much better than the data tested in his fief last time .

The weight of this ion thruster is 1000 to 52 kilograms, and the maximum thrust generated during operation is more than 6000 kilograms, which is more than 76 tons, and the average output power does not change much. After all, this is not a traditional The output power of the propeller is not as large as the fluctuation of the traditional propeller, and the difference from the highest thrust is only less than [-] kg, which is far beyond the reach of the traditional engine.

Moreover, this plasma does not need to prepare a huge fuel. The thruster plus the battery only weighs so little. It can be said that such a small engine can directly send an object weighing 76 tons directly from the ground. In space, it can be seen how powerful the thrust of this plasma thruster is.

You should know that this engine is still a small ion thruster produced by Zhu Lei's factory, and it is intended to be equipped with relatively light aviation equipment.It sounds like the weight of this plasma thruster is more than [-] tons, but if you know the size of this engine, no one will think that this thruster is too big.

This thruster weighs 250 kg, has a maximum diameter of 260 mm, a nozzle diameter of 120 mm, and an overall length of the engine of [-] mm.So this thruster looks very small, but because this thruster uses a lot of these special materials in Zhu Lei's factory, and there are a lot of fucking materials, plus insulating metal materials used for insulation, so It has such a heavy weight, but these materials are indispensable, otherwise it will reduce the overall performance of the propeller.

However, the thrust generated by such a small plasma thruster has reached more than 76 tons. What an amazing figure!

When the power of the battery was exhausted and the thrusters slowly stopped, all the people present except Zhu Lei stood there blankly, their eyes fixed on the LCD screen, and many people even opened their mouths .It can be said that everyone was shocked by the god-like data of this plasma thruster.

You know this is a plasma thruster!It was because the people present knew that this was a plasma thruster, so they showed such expressions. If this thruster was a traditional explosive chemical thruster, even if the thrust reached more than 60, they would not Such an expression appears.

(End of this chapter)