>From my point of view, the wire has been burned out since November the 12th during calibration in Helium. The power sent to the wire went up to 100W! The temperature at the surface of wire reached a very high temperature (Convection and radiation play here, so it is difficult to estimate it). When the power released to 55W, a quenching occurred. Celani on its presentation at ICCF 17 clearly stated, on its report, that quenching has a dramatic effect on the wire (See slide 16 of the ICCF17 presentation).
Simply, this wire is dead. Doesn't mean the wire isn't able to load Hydrogen, but that the quenching destroyed all the NAEs (if any) present before the calibration. Arnaud

