

| Subject: | Re: Warming the oil in cold weather? |
| From: | David Beierl |
| Date: | Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:35:10 -0500 |
At 11:51 AM 1/2/2016, Jeff Palmer wrote: >I've made a little box with aluminum foil and a 100w bulb. You'd be >surprised how much heat that produces. >Jeff Around 350 BTU/hr if all the visible light gets turned into heat. Your basic 1500 watt electric heater makes about 5200 BTU/hr. A heat lamp bulb doesn't waste much as visible, and has a built-in reflector. I think they might be 150 watt. And I've used a halogen work light to remove microprocessor sockets with a couple hundred pins from a circuit board. Yrs, d
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