This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment 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. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Mike Bratcher=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 1:09 PM Subject: Drying boxes Hi all, 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). 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. What do you think? Mike Bratcher ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/40/f8/52/a0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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