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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If your purpose for the box is to =
simply keep wood
at a moderate moisture content, then the humidistat controlling a heater =
would
be an excellent way to go. I'd be a little leery of the baseboard heater =
though
- fire concern, because most I've seen develop a red-hot element in =
them.
Perhaps better to consider a bunch of DC rods or get one of the little =
sealed
oil-filled room heaters and just use the 600 watt setting. My =
recollection is
that the DC humidistat is rated to run 600 watts off it. Rods might be =
the
easiest way to go though. If your box is well insulated, then you really =
won't
need all that much for a heat source. I've got two or three rods in the =
base of
my hot box and it's all I need to dry soundboards drier that anyone =
would ever
want to dry a soundboard.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=MBratPianos@indy.rr.com =
href="mailto:MBratPianos@indy.rr.com">Mike
Bratcher</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 21, 2003 =
1:09
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Drying boxes</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, I'm still in the tooling up =
phase, and I
have 2 drying boxes for different purposes. One is basically a =
large
storage box designed to be efficient and cheap. The other =
is the
dry down box very similar to Overs box (Thanks Ron).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My question is concerning the big =
storage
box. It has shelves and racks to hold soundboards, rib stock, =
shim
stock, whatever. I want to put a small baseboard heater in it =
and a very
small computer type fan in it to keep air moving. I'm thinking I =
will
need some type of control unit to turn the heater on and off. =
Maybe even
a dampp-chaser humidistat. The box is 8' x 8' x 2'6" fully =
insulated,
but not vapor proof. Or, I could just use the control setting on =
the
heater, but what should I set it at? I do live in Indiana where =
the
humidity is very high in summer and very low in the winter. The =
box is
in a remote sheltered but unheated part of our shop.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What do you think?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike
Bratcher</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>