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Muggles[_10_]

On 2/18/2016 1:26 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:35:07 -0600, Muggles
wrote:

On 2/17/2016 11:56 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:33:44 -0600, Muggles

It is an electric with a 1.44kw heater. The blower gets the heat away
from the TV pretty well. It does not seem to get warm above the mantel
We seldom turn the heater on anyway.
I have fans in the 2 equipment bays beside the fire place to get the
heat from those components out. I used a remote sense thermometer to
verify that I was not over heating anything. There are 2 satellite
boxes, a PC, a ReplayTV, a DVD player, a disk carousel and 2 UPS units
in there.

yeah, I saw lots of components in the shelves. That was going to be my
next question - if they heated up much being next to the heater like
that. I couldn't see any fans, though, but that would do the trick for
sure. Thanks!

The electric insert runs cool to the touch, even with the heat on.
The fans are in the back and vent the air up the back of the cabinet.
It really does not take that much air flow to cool it. Two 4"
"whisper" fans do it and you don't really even hear them running.
It pulls the air from the bottom where it is naturally cooler.

awe ... I can picture how that would work. I have a small fan pointed
up towards the ceiling where my oil heater sits. The warm air from it
gets caught in the fan circulation and really keeps the entire room
warm. I guess it doesn't take a big fan to do that. Mines about an 8
inch fan.

When I was doing the heat load calcs on the components I used my
Killawatt power monitor set to display current. Watts are really heat.
(1kw ~ 3400 BTU)
It turned out the satellite boxes were the biggest power hogs, even
bigger than the PC, decoding a movie file. I split them up, one on
each side. I am dissipating a few hundred watts on each side, max. It
is not enough to significantly heat the room but it would make those
equipment bays toasty without the fans.
I am getting rid of the DVD and the Replay. My PC plays DVDs fine. I
really want to get rid of the satellite too and be entirely online
streaming along with a DVR that will record OTA. I have another, more
capable PC ready to go that has the DVR card and the software but I
just have not been ready to rewire that whole mess.
As I said, the whole thing is on wheels so I can roll it out into the
room to rewire. With all of that stone the center segment weighs about
500-600 pounds but I have six "office machine" caster sets on it so it
rolls pretty easy. The book case on the left rolls too. The one on
the right is fixed, since there wasn't really anywhere for it to roll
anyway. It also has drawers instead of sliding panels (again nowhere
to slide) and if it wasn't fastened to the wall the weight of the
stone faced drawers would pull it over, even if they were empty.
When everything is closed up, the stone fits tight enough that most
people don't even realize it will open up.

That's a big and heavy unit! I didn't realize it was portable until you
mentioned it here. I missed that in your previous posts.

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Maggie