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Post by jackie on Jan 28, 2023 15:17:43 GMT 1
I could not live like that, far too hot. It is 14°C in our massive kitchen (7x6x3.6m. ) and a perfect temperature with one wood burner. The rest of the house has open hearth wood fires and being the two of us, we only light up the library hearth in the evenings while we read and listen to music before bedtime.(no telly). The hot air central wood furnace goes on when it gets to -5°C outside and that takes the chill off the house to make it more comfortable. The bedroom windows are closed while the snow and wind is around otherwise they are open all year so that we can hear the wildlife. (Moles making mountains). 14 deg - too cold for me to be comfortable! 23 is more like it for me in the evenings and 21 during the day when I’m pottering. I grew up in a cold house with just a gas fire in the living room. Bloody awful in the winter. |
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Post by annabellespapa on Jan 29, 2023 13:26:06 GMT 1
I could not live like that, far too hot. It is 14°C in our massive kitchen (7x6x3.6m. ) and a perfect temperature with one wood burner. The rest of the house has open hearth wood fires and being the two of us, we only light up the library hearth in the evenings while we read and listen to music before bedtime.(no telly). The hot air central wood furnace goes on when it gets to -5°C outside and that takes the chill off the house to make it more comfortable. The bedroom windows are closed while the snow and wind is around otherwise they are open all year so that we can hear the wildlife. (Moles making mountains). 14 deg - too cold for me to be comfortable! 23 is more like it for me in the evenings and 21 during the day when I’m pottering. I grew up in a cold house with just a gas fire in the living room. Bloody awful in the winter. I am with you Jackie, I am not a fan of central heating, lots of rooms being heated and not used and very dry, I love a warm room to sit down in but if I get too hot I can de-camp to another room that is not so hot. Having grown up in a house with no heating apart from a small Rayburn in the kitchen, I always have multiple options to keep warm if necessary, from electric heaters, log burners, central heating and even a portable gas hob. |
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Post by pcpa on Jan 29, 2023 14:09:38 GMT 1
8° inside where I am working, the caravane will have fallen to outside temperature when I return for the night, I can get warm fairly quickly without the van actually warming through and it feels so much warmer than where I have been working.
At night I leave the pilot light on which will add 4° to the outside ambient temperature, the bedroom is unheated but has not fallen to lower than 3°c yet, I sleep much better in a cold room.
I sleep under a summer quilt, a winter quilt and a padded throw over the top, the thickness is such that I have to squeeze around the bed sideways walking like a Lemur, I cannot get to the wardrobes beside the bed at all if i am wearing kneepads it is that tight!
Under the bed is packed full of wall insulation, I also have an electric blanket.
Heating is 1 gas bottle a week when its coldest like last week so €29.90 max including hot water.
The only thing that I am looking forward to when I move inside will be being able to walk around like a human being and not shuffling like a Lemur!
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Post by pcpa on Jan 29, 2023 14:14:44 GMT 1
As an experiment, this morning I placed my fan on the induction hob, the fan went into action after only 22 secs where there is no air convection, only heat. Can somebody explain please. Nope, I am at a loss to explain how an induction hob can heat up an aluminium heat sink  Or is the bottom part ferrous? - It's hard to see from the photographs. |
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Post by robertarthur on Jan 29, 2023 15:29:31 GMT 1
Maybe I missed something, but the answer - rotating fans and induction hobs - starts at 3:47. Aluminium is a good conductor of heat. How to dissipate the heat in power amplifiers or linear voltage regulators? Heatsinks. |
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Post by Le-Dolly on Jan 29, 2023 16:03:02 GMT 1
As an experiment, this morning I placed my fan on the induction hob, the fan went into action after only 22 secs where there is no air convection, only heat. Can somebody explain please. Nope, I am at a loss to explain how an induction hob can heat up an aluminium heat sink Or is the bottom part ferrous? - It's hard to see from the photographs. It is no problem if one uses an Induction Adapter Plate beneath the alu fan. |
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Post by robertarthur on Jan 29, 2023 17:52:32 GMT 1
Department I should have known better: these modern ceramic hobs and induction hobs look almost identical, under the surface quite different technologies.... I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. The only excuse I can invent: a gas hob in our kitchen.
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Post by pcpa on Jan 29, 2023 18:30:22 GMT 1
Nope, I am at a loss to explain how an induction hob can heat up an aluminium heat sink Or is the bottom part ferrous? - It's hard to see from the photographs. It is no problem if one uses an Induction Adapter Plate beneath the alu fan. I admire someone who can think on their feet! |
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Post by glazedallover on Jan 30, 2023 0:55:47 GMT 1
Do Lemurs walk around with their heads up their own backsides ?
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Post by pcpa on Jan 30, 2023 1:40:33 GMT 1
Sorry, not biting!
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Post by Polarengineer on Jan 30, 2023 7:00:20 GMT 1
Does this induction adaptor plate by any chance get hot (and cause convection of the air)?
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Post by pcpa on Jan 30, 2023 13:20:06 GMT 1
Thats the purpose of them, to allow people to use their old aluminium pans which really defeats the object of induction heating.
TBH I was surprised that LeDolly would have one being such a bon viveur, I thought he used cast iron cookware like I do, well used to do because they are all packed away at present.
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Post by Le-Dolly on Jan 30, 2023 20:06:37 GMT 1
Thats the purpose of them, to allow people to use their old aluminium pans which really defeats the object of induction heating. TBH I was surprised that LeDolly would have one being such a bon viveur, I thought he used cast iron cookware like I do, well used to do because they are all packed away at present. Not quite, all my pans, some twenty something, are of the Cristel variety, www.cristel.com/ only the first four that I received as a wedding present do not have bases suitable for induction use. All their products produced after '93 have induction suitable bases. |
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Post by Le-Dolly on Jan 30, 2023 20:09:15 GMT 1
Does this induction adaptor plate by any chance get hot ( and cause convection of the air)? I would say no, I cut the plate purposely for the experiment 5mm smaller all round than the base of the fan. |
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Post by pcpa on Jan 30, 2023 21:26:39 GMT 1
Unless the fan had a huge base then you would not have been able to warm up a small plate, they all need a minimum mass of metal to detect.
I can warm up a large tin of confit de canard on a medium ring and a large tin of flageolets on a small ring but not a small tin.
A cheap single ring one is very usefull in the workshop for softening waxes, warming paint etc.
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