Re: AndyJ - going from flat to some hang
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:08 am
Can you tell me more about this thermostatically controlled heating pad? I’ve never seen a heating pad that lets you dial in a temperature but it sounds useful.
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Can you tell me more about this thermostatically controlled heating pad? I’ve never seen a heating pad that lets you dial in a temperature but it sounds useful.
It's an ordinary electric heating pad with a separate thermostatic controller. I bought the controller from eBay for about $30. It has programmable high and low temperature limits and a thermocouple; I hold the thermocouple to the tube with a rubber band and wrap the heating pad around it.Can you tell me more about this thermostatically controlled heating pad? I’ve never seen a heating pad that lets you dial in a temperature but it sounds useful.
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Probably. My first heating pad has "hot spots" that would leave red marks or blisters in spots. After figuring out what the problem was, I wrapped several layers of aluminum foil around the tube, under the heating pad. The foil helped spread the heat out. It took more foil than I expected, though.I think glass is a much better distributor of heat than plastic is perhaps.