Several thoughts: 1) If there are ANY dielectrics in the path from one heater to the other, then this is a NO GO since one would need a low resistance path.
2) That would require a low resistance (a few ohms at MOST, if not less) path thru whatever the electric current is traversing... What's the resistivity of Ni/NiO???? -Mark -----Original Message----- From: mix...@bigpond.com [mailto:mix...@bigpond.com] Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:51 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:RE: Supersizing the BJT In reply to Mark Iverson's message of Sat, 7 May 2011 19:39:32 -0700: Hi, [snip] >2) The only way I see to generate a signif potential between the two >heaters is to leave one of the leads floating, thus, BOTH heater leads >are at the same potential. However, this means there is no current flow thru >that heater and thus, no heating. > [snip] Unless the current flows to one heater through a wire, then to the next heater through the body of the device, then back to the power supply via one wire of the other heater. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
