Hi All,
I recently testing a setup for determining the amount of calories lost by
top venting.  The results surprised me, so I'm gearing up for more formal
tests.

A question that I have is the amount of water that actually exits the top
vent.  If the ambient temp is very cold, that water vapor should condense
immediately and freeze to form a mass of ice.
That amount would be a strong indication of how much water actually
exited over a period of time.

Does anyone have photos of such ice at the vent that I could use?

And even more, enough observations to estimate how much water exits in a
week when it's been really cold?  Metabolically, for a colony burning
through a pound of honey a week, there should be slightly over a cup of
frozen water by the end of the week.

Feel free to reply off list

Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
530 277 4450
ScientificBeekeeping.com

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