I like the cable, can you send a link to it?
Thanks for your time!!
Scott
Thanks for your time!!
Scott
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I use Chrome and it will offer to translate the rest of the world into my limited language. I am hoping to find stateside equals.Scott, I think frost guard would be closest to what I can think of as a translation. Here are some links, but they're all in Finnish, and the cables themselves use the European style of plug and 220V.
http://www.nettimyynti.fi/tuote/sulanapitokaapeli-2-16-m/6438168088341/?keywords=sulanapitokaapeli
http://www.motonet.fi/fi/kategoria/1384/383825/Sulanapitokaapelit
http://www.ltt24h.fi/tuotteet/työkalut/rakennuslämmittimet/sulanapitokaapelit/52103/
https://www.karkkainen.com/verkkokauppa/axxel-2m-itsesäätyvä-sulanapitokaapeli
Best bet for finding one? Call a Minnesotan or Alaskan plumbing and electrics company and ask them what they would call it. Then you might find something similar Stateside.
What I like about this type of cable compared to heat tape, is that this can be submerged in the waterer.
you have to have a pretty bucketI have a heater cable designed for keeping water lines from freezing inside the waterer. At first I just put it in a uninsulated waterer, but that didn't work too well. Later I made an insulated waterer, it worked better, but we had a pretty warm winter so I didn't get to test it properly.
The heater cable plugs right in, and it's self regulating. The insulation between the two buckets is PU foam, the inner bucket has a layer of space blanket wrapped around it. The top insulation is aluminium coated PU foam board, the bottom only has a layer of space blanket, and three nipples screwed in.
*Edit* This was more of a proof of concept model. The cable in it is only 20W, I'd go with a 40W or 60W version on the next model. I'd also use a prettier outer bucket and make sure that the space between the two buckets on the bottom is tighter.
I would rather deal with cold than heat anyday......but then I have a furnace but no airconditioning.Forever grateful for living where it doesn't freeze, we might scorch in the summer but atleast we don't have to worry about frostbite on bunny ears and chicken wattles!!
Not that I can have a rabbit in qld, but still greatful for mild winters