And here's the Connextras experiment

Did you fart at 1:14? lol! My wife is a nurse and burst out laughing. Says nurses think they're hilarious.. Well, welcome to the club!

I really hope you show us how plasma televisions work soon

I wonder if your amazon delivery person always wonders why appliances are delivered in pairs to this address.

With the desiccant dried air compressors at work, they use the waste heat from compressing air to regenerate the desiccant drum, apparently at a speed around 1 revolution per hour Manufacturer notes that optimum drying performance takes 4 to 5 hours at full load Though I forgot that yours rotates 30 times faster so it may be stabilised in 8 to 10 minutes This makes me think that you may be getting some inconsistent results as your desiccant may not be as baseline as you are thinking starting tests I am also really curious if there are dual type machines that use the vapor compression cycle to supply the hot and cold sides of the desiccant dryer for increased efficiency at the cost of complexity

I'm curious about the 80 second / 40 second standard. Assuming the wheel spins at a constant rate, that would mean that the ratio of adsorbing to heating areas should be two to one, but it looks like it's more than three to one. If the beige area was a quarter of the space, it would be three to one and it sure looks less than that.

I’d be curious to see how much water a bag of Lay’s Potato Chips will extract from the air. They go stale VERY quickly when you open a bag…. And they’re pretty cheap. 😃

Two experiment variants: 1. Run at "half power", and run the rotaty motor on a PSU which lets you set 30 Hz, or less. Leave the rest as is. 2. Can you try that rotating one in a dry desert environment?

I could see this being turned into a really good 3d printer filament storage device. Odds are you could run the heater intermittently, not sure how one would sense when to run it. Maybe watch the moisture level in the heater exhaust and shut it off for a while when it drops?

More pedantry: You label the experiment a failure, but I disagree. The experiment was a success in that you tested your idea (aka hypothesis) and got a result. The result was not the one you were expecting, but it's a result nonetheless.

Not to be too pedantic, but the thing you test in an experiment is an hypothesis, whereas a theory is what you what you develop based on the results of an experiment. (The reason this distinction shouldn’t be considered overly pedantic is that Creationists used to make hay over the fact that Darwinian evolution is only a theory, when theories are basically all you ever get from science.) (I wouldn’t have bothered with this correction if you hadn’t used “theory” in the context of being a thing being tested in an experiment. The hypothesis/theory distinction doesn’t really matter otherwise in colloquial usage.)

i think the only way to actually make it more efficient is to use a metal radiator to increase the amount of moisture condensation, it's currently made out of plastic, and plastic isn't typically known for its heat conduction efficiency.

Thanks for uploading all this to Patreon 🙂

lol-well it was worth a TRY!

I love these experiments. Still valuable knowledge obtained even though it was different than expected.