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Old 06-23-10, 08:50 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by Xringer View Post
Maybe let the warmed-up air blow out on a strip of copper, so the temperature can be easily measured with the IR Pistola.?.
Aren't you the guy that built a data logger? This would be a perfect application for it.


And, I think that a thermistor just hanging in the air stream would be great. Thermistors are pretty quick to respond and most of them have a midrange close to the temperatures you're working with.

You're going to have to do some research to be able to calculate efficiency, but with a data logger and thermistor, you could at least rank various test configurations. That would be pretty useful in itself.

I'm trying to build a hydronic floor that doesn't weigh a ton (literally), and I tried testing several different materials using a data logger and a ranking scheme, and I really learned a lot. I'm still not ready to build, but I know what NOT to build.

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