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re: clothes dryers
10 nov 1998
dkb wrote:
>awesome!
thanks.
>>you might consider an outdoor clothesline, a clothesline in a sunspace
>>next to the washer, or a closet with some foamboard on the inside and
>>one of h&r's (800-848-8001) fine navy surplus 7.5 amp 110v tm89hvc5203
>>$4.95 humidistats at the top and a cheap heater or a few 100 watt bulbs
>>near the floor.
you might build a 4x8x8' closet dryer/sauna with 7 $6 4x8' sheets of osb
and some 2x6s and 6" of fiberglass insulation and 1" of foamboard on the
outside. its thermal conductance would be about 224ft^2/r25 = 9 btu/h-f,
so a 100 watt 341 btu/h light bulb would raise the temperature about 341/9
= 38 f to 108 in a 70 f room. this could remove 20% moisture from 20 pounds
of clothes in about 0.2x20x1000/341 = 12 hours and keep the heat inside
the house in the winter. making it into a 200 f sauna requires (200-70)9
= 1170 btu/h, ie 343 watts. h&r's tm92hvc2293 110v 8 amp $2.95 thermostat
opens on temperature rise and closes when the temperature drops about 25 f.
nick
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