Try to calibrate the effective heating seen on one of the wires due to coupling within the system upon the other wire. By this I would like to know the calibrated temperature of the non driven wire when power is applied to the driven one. For example, when 50 watts of power is applied to the inactive wire and the active Celani wire is open circuited a certain temperature can be measured in the Celani wire due to coupling of the gas and perhaps radiation and convection.

The same temperature of the Celani wire can be obtained by applying a certain number of watts to it directly with the other wire opened. This equivalent power is what I desire to know. It would be great if a calibration chart were to be generated over the entire range of powers.

This information might allow us to determine how much of the excess power is due to direct wire temperature, which represents power applied, and the gas temperature that could be adjusted by heating of the inactive wire. I suspect that the information we obtain will be quite important.

Dave

Hi Dave,

We are / will be exploring these aspects and will encourage the participants of the multiple replications to do likewise.

Thank you for your engagement and please keep those ideas coming - we need to leave no stone unturned.

Bob