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Originally Posted by jwxr7
NIce work! Do you think it will hold up well in high winds?
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As it is now, I suspect it wouldn't do real well in high winds.
However, it takes a hurricane to get much wind in the back yard.
The two struts have a slight bend in them (flexing down),
so I'm thinking of adding some reinforcement. Maybe two more struts..
I'm waiting for my resistors to show up tomorrow, so I can build my little heater array.
Today, I decided to use some of the power that's just wasting away.
I ran an extension cord down to the boiler in the basement, and
connected it to the 250W heating patch on the boiler.
The Resistance of the patch is 59 ohms and the
loaded voltage is 79.7 Vdc.
So the power is only about 107.66 watts.
367.3512 BTUh isn't much, but it's better than nothing..
Once I get my 10 ohm heater in there, I should be getting closer to
magic 500 watts that I'm looking for.. (crossing fingers)..
