[quote=LuckyInOC][quote=sdduuuude]Very unlikely a heating element, but not because it is a short circuit. That’s what heating elements are – a short circuit.[/quote]
I disagree. A short circuit has O hms or almost 0 ohms resistance. A heating element has lots of resistance to produce heat. Opposite ends of the electrical resistance spectrum.
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If a heating element had lots of resistance, it wouldn’t generate lots of heat. The more current that flows, the more heat that can be generated. But current drops as resistance increases. Therefore a heating element must have relatively low (but nonzero) resistance. Ohm’s law.
The reason it’s not a heating element, as someone else pointed out, is that there are no insulators suspending the crazy wire thing. If you connected those two big nubs to juice, electricity would take the easiest path which would be that big metal frame. If this was a heating element it would be constructed in such a way that the electricity would be forced to flow through all that convoluted wirework. But it’s not, which is why I claim it isn’t.
My money is on a rack of some sort, or the frame for holding a filter element.
