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04-10-2017 #11
What are you using for a heater?
I would think something like this would be good http://www.thermosensedirect.com/aca...iABEgLg2PD_BwE
I'm also thinking a bucket in a bucket, the outer container galvanised steel the inner one plastic. Water is the outer container with heater it the bucket and the inner plastic bucket sat on bricks inside the outer container. You control the temperature in the outer bucket the water acts like a heat sink and evens out the temperature spikes. You would have to leave a water pump circulating the warm water 50-60c you could use a hot water pump from a caravan cheap as chips.
Why Galvanised? Because it conducts heat better without the danger of melting, stainless steel is a crap conductor and expensive. I would worry the heater I linked to could melt the plastic if the conduction rate is too slow. If you used an arduino and PWM this would be a non issue and you could use plastic all round, think of it as a heated bed on a 3d printer.
No reason you couldn't use am immersion heater element if you did a bucket in a bucket setup.Last edited by Desertboy; 04-10-2017 at 05:26 AM.
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