The full cool down curve of the tank and a fitted curve ()are attached below.

Least squares fitted values are 

a=23.4145±-0.0005 C, tau=7596±170 s, c=21.00947±0.00004

The variance on the time constant is very large, I think this might be due to a poor fit owing to the fact that the temperature was still rising (rather than steady) when I turned the heating off. We want the whole system to be at equalibrium at the start of the test and we also want a decent tail on the decay. I have therefore repeated the measurment this time heating overnight with 30 V (18 W) which settled on 44.36 C.  I have now left the vac can to cool for the rest of the day (starting about 9.30 am).

Either way it looks like the characteitic 1/e decay time is on the order of 2.1 hours.

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