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Ontario, Canada.

How can I cheaply wire in a heat source with a thermostat?

heat sources I have
light bulb
heating pads.

Is the common thermostat 24v?

What other electrical equipment will I need?

11/5/2005 9:29:05 AM

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I use a small ceramic heater with a built in thermostat. I picked it up at Home depot for $29.00.
I just set the temp and it comes on and goes off by itself. I also use an external thermometer to make sure it maintains temp.

11/5/2005 9:52:22 AM

Ontario, Canada.

Eddy,a Thanks for the info. I was checking them out on the walmart and CTC web sites. Are the thermostats acurate enough. I remember that most house hold thermostats are 4 degress + or -

11/5/2005 10:16:43 AM

Berlin,mi.([email protected])

i use an old kitchen cabinet with a 125w heat bulb. i have two kinds of 110 volt thermostats. one was a home thermostat used on baseboard electric heat and the other is one that is built into a cord and you just plug it in. i am not sure were you can get the thermostat but if i can find a link to a site i will post it.

11/5/2005 10:18:42 AM

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I don't know about the accuracy, but I have used the heater for 2 years now and I have had great success. I don't believe 4 degrees of air temp. would make any difference to the soil in the pots. I would think that the soil would stay at an average, and maintain a very consistent temp. So after saying this, a soil thermometer would probably be more benificial, although I have never used one in the chamber, but I keep my temp set at 88 degrees, air temp.
Eddy

11/5/2005 10:52:15 AM

Bristol, ME ([email protected])

For what it's worth, this may help...

http://www.mainepumpkins.com/germbox.html

11/5/2005 12:45:00 PM

Canada

I used my old waterbed heating pad, I simply purchased a styrofoam cooler drilled a hole in the side of it layed my waterbed heating pad on the bottom I placed 2 hot water bottles over top of it turned it on and adjusted the temp on the controll dial till I found the sweet spot of 80
i then placed my containers inside kept the lid on and they sprouted very well. Now that I have 180 odd some seeds out of this years fruit I'll be trying a few other things but the waterbed heater worked well.

dave

11/5/2005 2:31:35 PM

Long Beach, CA

Last spring I just placed the seeds on top of the water heater (~85 degrees). It seems to have worked fine.

11/5/2005 5:42:06 PM

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Princess Auto has a thermostat designed for fan control, here's the link. It's on page 37. Wait for it to go on sale.

http://members.shaw.ca/DL0006/flyer_english.pdf

11/6/2005 7:57:56 AM

Oz

sears...torpedo heater thermostat
home depot.......baseboard heater thermostat.
check with your local heating and cooling neighbor,,,trade,,

11/6/2005 9:38:03 AM

Burt NY

i use a egg incubator works great / check out my post at mr mcclew rd.

11/6/2005 9:57:33 AM

Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

I saw some thing in a Korean grocery store that looked like a device for growing a steady supply of bean sprouts. I bet something like that would make a good germinator.

11/6/2005 5:35:57 PM

Syracuse, NY

have a look at my Gerry GermBuck in my
'04 diary, pumpkinpal2....i cannot say enough
about the GermBuck. the ONLY problem with it is i can
only sprout 4 seeds at a time, but i have three GermBucks, so, problem solved...eric

11/8/2005 6:50:43 PM

Syracuse, NY

also, on how to sprout seeds using room temperature and
a CD spindle container, see my post on General Discussion a few lines up,
"new spin on seed-starting". works well so far....eric

11/9/2005 4:36:27 PM