I don't have the answer, but it was my assumption, about control. Quiescence does not seems to be a problem with DGT according to their talk and (more important) to their test protocol (which does talk about continuous heat).
2012/1/24 Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net> > Question:**** > > Could the quiescence be something as simple as heat not being extracted > fast enough from the Ni-core material and it eventually builds up to begin > melting the Ni tubercles, slowly quenching the ‘active area’? If so, then > my initial thoughts don’t apply and it is an engineering problem.**** > > >