In a message dated 4/17/2004 6:59:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dean_coo...@bellsouth.net writes:
> Does anyone know where I can get a thermostat to build a heat box? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Dean (and the group), I use a recessed ceiling light fixture, scrounged from a job site. It has a thermostat built-in. I'm in southern California (don't need a lot of heat), use a big cardboard box lined with foil for curing glued ribs, drying small painted parts, etc. Fixture is in the bottom of the box under a piece of screen. If the ambient is below 50*F, I screw in a 75W bulb, otherwise a 60W keeps the box warm enough. The thermostat opens when the wall of the fixture reaches about 160*F, closes when it drops back to about 80. You can tweak that by bending the leaf and by adding layers of aluminum foil over the side of the can facing the lamp. If you pick your teeth with a soldering iron you'll realize that once you have a bimetallic thermostat that makes & breaks a 110vac circuit, you can use it to control heat lamps, fans, strings of other lamps, etc. -R.S.Hoover
