1) Rossi used a wrap around external heater to bring the core up to operational temperature.
2) This external heater could not be the source of the necessary electrons needed to create the H- ions needed to be captured by the Ni atoms.
3) He would need another naked, so to speak, element heater to boil off the electrons needed to form the H- ions, once they were broken apart from the supplied H2.
4) Vacuum tubes do this by using a thermionic emissive coating on the cathode tube structure surrounding the heater element.
5) In vacuum tubes a positive charge on the plate causes the electrons to leave the cathode and to travel to the plate.
6) Rossi may be using a voltage difference between his cathode and the Ni powder to control electron availability and to control the reaction.
6) He seems to have the ability to disable sections of the 3 core reactor assembly.
Maybe Rossi's catalysis is nothing more than a selected thermionic emissive coating on a thin metal tube surrounding the electron source buried deep in the heart of each of his reactor cores?
This may imply that his "Frequencies" are a variable pulse width, selected polarity, signal that can increase the effective release of electrons from the cathode with a positive polarity pulse train or retard them with a negative polarity pulse train. This would make it relatively simple to control the strength / heat gain of the reaction.
In the middle of the heater power wire feed module, there is a removable plug that may allow Rossi to disable selected reactor cores by using a small 3 pole slide switch block that may be accessible behind that plug. See attached photo.
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