The heater was adjusted up to 4 just before I posted that message and the shop is still not up to 67degrees; the heater needs to be adjusted upward again. A setting of 2-3 has not been adequate. There is no silver bullet setting and the correct measurement is, as I mentioned, the actual shop temperature.
Also, please note, now that members have RFID cards, there is no reason to leave the shop door unlatched during these cold times. Tim Bosse (current member who isn't able to make it to the shop much these days) put the insulation strips around the door, but they will not work if the door isn't closed.
Thanks, -=Doug On 3/4/13 4:39 AM, jeff kephart wrote:
That heater does an amazing job, but also mind that the box fan stays on to circulate. Without that there would be a (worse) temperature gradient where all the warm air would stay above the work area. A setting on the heater of 2-3 seems to be around the right point. Of course it also depends on outside temp and such factors as number of times / people are in and out of the man door. On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Doug Philips <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hey all, Just a quick note / heads up, esp. if you are a new member. Despite its somewhat puny appearance, our Wall-o-Fire heater does a really good job of keeping the shop warm enough to use. Recently it seems some folks have been turning the heater back, and unfortunately the shop has been cooling off too much. Please do not turn the shop heater back unless the shop gets to be too warm (over 70 degrees, you can check the temp on our home page), and then only turn it back a little. Remember, you might be the last person leaving the shop, but you never know when someone else will be coming in. Thanks, -=Doug P.S. We're quite serious about this. In the winter of 2010-2011 the shop temperatures dropped into the mid 60s. While that doesn't sound too bad, when you're there working on projects at the tables, it gets uncomfortabley cold; folks were discouraged from coming to the shop. It was bad enough that we gave serious consideration to having to move unless the heating problem was addressed, which it (fortunately) was.
