The axial wires look like typical leads to a cartridge heater http://www.tempco.com/new/products5.html
A long version off this kind of heater could contact the reactor at the end, and then it could transfer some heat to it, but most of the heat would lost to the water which flows all around it, correct? This kind of heater in operation should not have a surface voltage potential much above ground. That is the problem of imagining current flow. J. -----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton > But, going back to your other observation, how would you flow current > between two heaters, exactly? Have one at higher potential? Sure. But to know if it is being done, one has to see inside the reactor. I assume the "auxiliary heater" in the end feeds a nichrome (?) wire inside the reactor to directly heat the inside. If that heater was at a higher potential the band heater, current could flow from the wire into the reactor powder, assuming it is in contact, through the reactor, the copper and to the band heater. Or vice versa. T
