Hi Greg, Is there a bottom cover? I believe the recommended installation is a 38 and 25 watt rod with the bottom cover package. I have experience installing 25, 35 and 50 watt single rod units. I also have experience in 25 + 25, 38 + 25, and 50 + 25. The latter three configurations seem to work very well with no "instabilities" introduced, if a bottom cover is used. I don't believe that a 25 belly and 25 watt tail would create an "imbalance", but that is only a but feeling. Your simple logic fails to include convection currents, and also fails to consider the controller. As Mr. Einstein use to say "keep it simple, but not *too* simple". I have used as much as 175 watts of dehumidification on a grand piano--previous to the bottom cover being introduced. At 04:25 PM 2/11/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Greetings listers, >I looked for the >markings on the rods and they both are 25 watt. Now that makes a little bit >of sense. The 25 watts will have much more of an affect on a piece of metal >half the size of the other one. My question to all of you who have ever >installed or thought about installing one of these systems is; "Does this >not create an imbalance where the sole purpose of installing a system such >as this is to gain balance?". Simple logic would seem to dictate that the >short rod being hotter than the long one would make the tail of the piano >warmer and therefore dryer than the front under the belly rail. >Greg Newell >Greg's piano Forté >mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > >P.S. you should know that Becky and Roger at Piano Life Saver Systems were >extremely helpful and congenial as always Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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