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If you can't find a lower watt Infrared light lower than 250 watts, try a pet store that has reptile supplies
I looked all over for one and found one in Evergreen, CO at a reptile and pet store. I bought 2 -150 watt Infrared light bulbs but they were about $11 a piece!
My chicken coop is small , just enough for 4 birds so 250 watt was too much but the 150 watt was just right. I put it on a timer so it goes on at 4 pm till 10 am and I bought a weather station from Costco.
You have a main indoor panel that you can read the outside and inside temp. It also has a sensor which you can place outside within 300 ft and read the outside temp and humidity and atmospheric pressure from inside your home. I placed that sensor inside the chicken coop so I can monitor the temp in the coop so the birds don't get too warm or too cold. The sensor runs on batteries and needs 2 of them either alkaline or lithium. Alkaline is good to read temps to -4 degrees but if you use lithium its will read to -40 degrees, and only need 2 AA Batteries!
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I looked all over for one and found one in Evergreen, CO at a reptile and pet store. I bought 2 -150 watt Infrared light bulbs but they were about $11 a piece!
My chicken coop is small , just enough for 4 birds so 250 watt was too much but the 150 watt was just right. I put it on a timer so it goes on at 4 pm till 10 am and I bought a weather station from Costco.
You have a main indoor panel that you can read the outside and inside temp. It also has a sensor which you can place outside within 300 ft and read the outside temp and humidity and atmospheric pressure from inside your home. I placed that sensor inside the chicken coop so I can monitor the temp in the coop so the birds don't get too warm or too cold. The sensor runs on batteries and needs 2 of them either alkaline or lithium. Alkaline is good to read temps to -4 degrees but if you use lithium its will read to -40 degrees, and only need 2 AA Batteries!
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