Caution with *energy efficient bulbs* ...
What creates the *heat*, is the actual wattage the lamp is using.
Often energy efficient bulbs may use way less watts then the *equivalent regular* bulbs.
I have *solved* the freezing water dillema as shown in this post...
*Just above it* --- so the bottom of the waterer did NOT touch the top of the cookie tin at all ??
Just to show that anything warm underneath is sufficient, I assume !
About cookie tins ...
For some idiotic reason, I was NOT capable of finding a cookie tin
anywhere in the house or at the...
Look at post number 78. two or three above yours, and again look at that picture.
Maybe that will help you in figuring out what it really is !
About how to make that bottom heater.
I drilled a hole slightly larger than the cord that connects to the solder iron.
It is a 3 wire cord.
2 wires to...
Hi,
The original post says:
I meant that the solder iron is inside a shallow container, underneath the water supply.
Similar to a lot of other posters using a cookie tin.
Mine is a shallow baking pan, and a even shallower baking pan as the top of the container.
The solder iron is thus in a...
Would this work, and has somebody tried this yet ?
I understand that moving water takes more cold to get it frozen,
so water dripping down constantly on top of the water supply in the coop will not freeze.
The nipples on the bottom of the water supply should be *heated* by the bottom heater...