At 06:37 AM 11/27/04, "Joe K1IKE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Heating: I use a 40 watt light bulb in my repeater
> for heat. I have it plugged into a "Freeze Alarm"
> unit and set it to 55 degrees. The Freeze Alarm is
> something used up in the North that you normally plug
> a light into and put the light in your front window.
> If your heat goes off while you are away in Florida
> for the winter, it will alert your neighbor that there
> is a problem with your heating system. This works
> well and I probably will put two of these in my
> repeater this year. Last year, the light bulb burnt
> out a couple of times, probably from being turned on
> and off so many times.
>
> 73, Joe, K1ike
Joe
One of the simplest ways of dealing with lamp burnout would be to hook two
40 watt lamps in series. Produces about the same total heat as a single bulb
and lasts for years. I run a setup like that as a heater in my pumphouse (5
years and counting). Now if you need it for the lighting function as well as
heat it won't provide the candle power you'll want. To overcome this wire a
switch
across one bulb. When closed it shorts out one of the bulbs and the other
returns to full candle power providing the light you need.
73
Larry
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