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[Nick Reiter]

Hi Keith,

That was about where I left off...

Scott had observed the effect, but felt it was due to
ampere force strain on the foil lead-wire strips.  He
sent me his thin foil strips which he said had
eliminated the effect from his chip, and to my
surprise, the effect was still robust.  He moved on to
other projects.  I then did a "wireless" version, with
the whole package, battery and all, running on an IR
remote control, on a balance pan.  The effect
remained, thus hinting it wasn't lead wire torque.

However, while I did some semi-insulated versions that
showed the effect continued, I still had my nagging
doubts, presuming it to be a thermal artifact (like
what we niggled with last year on the heat of
crystalization weight change effect).  I had a couple
tests on the table to rule that out - one being the
oil immersed version.  But I moved on to other
interests and left it hanging until a couple of weeks
ago... seven years later.

WHile the oil bath immersed version is still not the
ultimate test, to me it placed it back onto my table
with say a 90% certainty as opposed to a 65%
certainty.

I'm continuing this week, will report more after that.

You wrote:

> Wasn't sure what you mean here. Do you get a +/- 5mg
> weight variation, or just - regardless of applied
> voltage.

*******Sorry.  What I meant was that the magnitude of
the force - which changes direction with current flow,
and thus the direction of heat flow / hot-cold faces -
remains the same, up to about 5mg.  5mg loss, 5mg
gain, depending on the polarity of current flow, which
I can switch up at the supply mounted off to the side.
 The force is in the direction of the heat pumping
action... hot face up, force is up - weight loss.  Hot
face down, force is down - weight gain.  Which from
the get go... despite the chip being thermally shunted
with a foil wrap... made me suspicious of thermal air
artifacts, until the oil bath test.

n


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