From: Jed
The calibration was done at 486 W and and then the cell was run at 790 W for two days. That seems reasonably close to me. The temperature should have been about the same. I cannot imagine any mechanism that would make it go so much higher, other than anomalous excess heat. Geeze you are sounding almost as bad as Levi - in not seeing the obvious ... “about the same” is absurd, given what happens later. The difference between 486 and 790 is enormous when the delta-T is being raised by a formula which includes a fourth power (Stefan–Boltzmann law) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law look at the graph on this page !! small change in temperature (based on emissivity) are increased exponentially. Now we know that those changes could have been influenced by the photon output of the resistance wires. The is no evidence of gain in the way this was done and Levi should have known that from before ! Jones
