para-1275-pillar-36h
PARA-1275 pillar, 36 hours
A 62 mm pillar with a CD-14 wick, nine sessions, and the narrowest pool-to-diameter ratio on the site: 40 mm of melt inside a 62 mm pillar. It is the record that best shows what a high clear point buys, which is burn duration rather than brightness.
Hourly record
| Hour | Pool ⌀ mm | Flame mm | Pool vs peak | Flame vs peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28.0 | 54.0 | ||
| 2 | 34.0 | 58.0 | ||
| 3 | 37.0 | 57.0 | ||
| 4 | 38.0 | 55.0 | ||
| 5 | 39.0 | 54.0 | ||
| 6 | 39.0 | 52.0 | ||
| 7 | 40.0 | 51.0 |
The flame never exceeded 58 mm and settled at 51 mm by the last session, which for a pillar of this diameter is a small, steady flame. The reward is duration: 36 lit hours consumed 176 g, against 123 g in 32 hours for the softer SOY-4641 record in a wider vessel.
Mushrooming at 3 and soot at 5.9 sit below the flagged threshold, but only just. The margin comes from the weekly trim discipline in the burn session procedure; the same candle run without a trim would cross 7 within two sessions.
Vessel section
- Room
- 21.0 °C · 41 %RH
- Fragrance load
- 4.0 %
- Mushrooming
- 3 / 5
- Tunnelling risk
- 1 / 5
- Wet-spot risk
- 1 / 5
- Soot index
- 5.9 / 10
- Throw c/h
- 2 · 3
- Consumption
- 4.88 g/h
Failure modes observed
| Trigger | Threshold | Known failure modes |
|---|---|---|
| BURN-CORE | burn duration → single session over 4 h | A long session drives the hollow core down to the base plate and the pillar breaks apart. Hold every session to four hours. |
| BURN-SCALLOP | wick trim → trim above 8 mm | An untrimmed hard paraffin wick flares and glazes the rim with a scalloped edge. Trim to 6 mm every session. |
Reading of the record
- P-06 four-hour burn sessionCapped multi-session burn with hourly dimensional readings
- PARA-1275Paraffin wax · 54.5–59.0 °C