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Don Foreman
 
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Default 9.6 kW heater update

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:43:21 GMT, Ignoramus5470
wrote:

It's usable and almost finished. Needs some kind of "guards" on both
sides.

http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Garage-Heater/

Don Foreman said that not so bright red color of the coils is fine, I
will look for a bigger fan at acceptable price, but for now will use
what I have. The fan I have now is about 230 CFM.

i

I think I said that glowing some won't hurt the coils since coils in
toasters and radiant heaters also glow. I also recommended using a
larger fan. Glowing coils could result in undesirably high enclosure
temperature.
 
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