Now that I have demonstrated a roughly equivalent level of light with nitinol (comparing dry and dipped in water), I believe it invalidates the hypothesis that there is something special going on here. The light intensity with nitinol was far greater than any other trial with or without the addition of water. So, it may well be that Dave's theory is correct--that it is produced by higher impedance (and impedance matching with the transformer). I wouldn't say this invalidates Mills work, but strongly suggests to me that we are not seeing anything special with this portable spot welder. I'll try some other things, and report back if there is anything of interest.
You can see what happens with nitinol here: http://youtu.be/KTZ6UtUpvbg The full set of comparison photos is here: http://www.lenr-coldfusion.com/2014/08/26/sun-cell-lite-testing/ Jack Hi Folks, I was excited to receive my spot welder today. After ensuring it was in working order, I decided to get right to it and see if I could get anything like what BLP showed. Lo and behold I got something on the first try. I remembered Mills talking about all the different possibilities for types of conductors that they might use in the commercial device, and copper was one of them. I cut a very small piece of copper wire, dipped it in water, placed it on the electrodes, hit the switch, and pop with some bright light! Here's a link to the vid. Sorry for the bad camera work. Let me know what you think. I'll do another vid soon in complete darkness. http://youtu.be/d6XYqEhwZgA Jack
