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Monday: Gregers arrives late after a sleepless night. Peter considers this a fine time for a table tennis return match – but looses.

We installed another transformer for the foils, so that only two foils are connected to each transformer. This seems to prevent the fuse-blowing. Outdoor temperature was around 10° C, which allowed the room air temperature to achieve a steady 16° C. But with the foils on in the cubicle, the air temperature hardly remained below 20° C.

Had a meeting with Fanger and Jørn where the overall message was that the field laboratory has to be "office like" and that it would be difficult to establish thermal comfort at air temperatures below 18°C. Moreover, Fanger wanted people to be able to adjust their clothing whereas we prefer them to be more or less identically clothed and to ensure thermal comfort solely via radiation. See meeting summary for more details.

Calculated a statistics example with Henrik Spliid using Lei Fang’s data for "number of lines read" at different conditions. Did a two-side variance analysis, which in accordance with Lei Fang findings showed that there was not significance. The data was entered for all test-persons including those who had not come for one or two of the conditions. Our calculations showed that the data would be statistically significant if the productivity of 30 test persons improved by 5%.

We borrowed two large 4500 VA transformers (220 – 40 Volts) from Mr. Berril (Eltek). The transformers can be connected in parallel to yield the double voltage (80 V). Care must be taken to connect the transformers correctly, namly in series and with the plus connected to the minus on the output side.