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Default how about this for a cheap heat tape controller....

On 7/7/2011 5:58 PM, Carl Ijames wrote:
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Page 508 has bendable rod heating elements like in a stove, they sell them
straight and you bend to shape.

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Carl Ijames


Aha! I see now.

He heh, it only shows them bent, so I thought they were /all/ bent. :|

I know that heating elements are normally nichrome, but the nichrome
ones can be heated until they're orange-hot. What I was doing wouldn't
likely ever be used at such temps, so that was why I thought that music
wire might work.

Two 3-footers should do it though, and $75 isn't too bad.