Mathieu reports that the V2 protocol is in the loading phase now n the EU.

Ryan is preparing a blog on the calibrations for both the EU and the US apparatus that have been running through their calibrations these past weeks.

The US cells are just a few days behind.

Go check out the LIVE DATA for

Cell EU1.3A

on the shiny new viewer.

Thanks go to Scott! 

UPDATE#1 - Loading success

Loading of the EU1.3A 400+L class Celani wire was a success and here is how it how it looked on the shiny new HUGnetLab data view...

UPDATE#2 - Wire changing mode?

It looks like the wire, whilst still loading, went through a bump and is potentially in an excess heat mode - you can see T-Mica and outer cell temperatures rising when ambient (listed on other cells data) is doing nothing in particular. We don't want the wire in potential excess heat mode now, we want to try and load it some more. So we are going to cool down the cell, vacuum out any water that has been created from hydrogen reduction of wire oxides and then run through a few load/cool cycles.

Check out the graph!

UPDATE#3 - Pretty wires

Mathieu just took an image of the wires as the cell cooled down because they look pretty. The blue is NiCr and the brown one is the Celani wire.

UPDATE#4 - Video of Setup

Here is Mathieu explaining the configuration of the cells.

UPDATE#5 - Could a loaded Celani wire become a high temperature super conductor?

So over the past few days, we have been cycling the Celani wire in an H2 atmosphere to load it by passively heating the cell via 35W into the NiCr wire. This pretty much causes the exact same swing between the powered on state and room temperature. As this is happening, the wire's resistance is dropping but the rate is reducing with every cycle. The same can be said for the resistance drop at room temperature, but the rate of increased loss in resistance, whilst reducing, is less than that of the high temperature rate reduction. Make any sense... though not. So here is a picture where you can intuitively see what I am talking about.

and here is a plot of the minimum resistance difference peak to trough on successive loading cycles:

The first comparative is greater due to vacuum application, H2 refresh and NiCr power increasing from 30-35W. Over the first six cycles shown in the screen capture, the peak to trough minimum resistance delta values in a power off cool down changed from 0.482 to 0.826 Ohms, a 71% change in nominal reduction in resistance from power on. More significant is the swing compared to the on resistance, which is also dropping, so the swing is over 85% higher in the sixth peak to trough.

Now everyone knows that resistance in these wires will go up and down based on temperature and we know that loading with hydrogen makes the resistance drop. What is interesting here is that it is also seemingly making the effect of the same change in temperature causing the resistance to drop faster.

Now what if a loaded wire was deliberately cooled below room temperature, with the apparent enhancement in resistance drop, could we get to a point where the wire became a high temperature (relative to absolute zero) superconductor?

Maybe we have an exciting test to add to the end of the protocol when the experiment ends?