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The pump froze and cracked. The price of a new pump buys a whole lot of electricity so now there is a ceramic heater in there backing up the light bulbs. I do have a generator ready in case the power goes off. I'm not sure what to do when the EPA's ban on incandescent bulbs goes into effect. You already can't buy 100 watt bulbs.
I put LED bulbs in almost 2 months ago and they have not come unscrewed. They seemed to fit much tighter than the incandescent bulbs. Maybe I can find some higher quality incandescent bulbs that will fit tighter and stay screwed in. The LED's don't give off enough light.
I was under the impression that a light bulb uses the watts of electricity to produce light and heat. A CFL uses half the electricity to produce the same amount of light as an incandescent. The savings have to be because the CFL doesn't produce as much heat. LED lights use even less watts so they must run cooler than CFLs.
A simple laymans test is to connect 100 watt incandescent light bulbs in series to the energizer output. Then in a dark room observe how many bulbs that the charger will make glow as it pulses. The more bulbs that glow the higher the output
when we built our house, we worked late thru many nights. I had a string of lights along the ridge of the roof. about 6 light bulbs. it began to rain a little. the popping of the bulbs and the shower of sparks alerted me to their danger.. a regular 25W bulb will give off plenty of heat for chicks. chicks don't need lots of heat.
A series-parallel circuit, as the individual lights operate at 2 to 3 Volts each. Modern AC connected light strings are wired this way. If you have a non working string of lights, separate nine of them from the rest of the string. After testing the bulbs to be certain that they work, connect the series connected string across a battery.
We have put a light AND a heater in our well house for years. In central Indiana, the temps get below freezing for long periods. Our cement block well house has a jet pump, water storage tank, and the pipes coming up out of the ground and back down into the ground.
The old type of light dimmers were just rheostats (variable resistors) that were made to work with incandescent bulbs. But the new light dimmers are way more complex. They are made to work with LED lights.
Would the moisture of the water increase mold potential on dried stored produce? Around here I always heard the old folks and my father talk of using the spring head house for cool storage of milk, butter and homebrew in the "ice box days" but their root cellar was on the most dry ground near the house and served double duty as a storm shelter.
Wattage of 'heat' bulb depends on size of brooder and ambient temperature of room brooder is in. Regular incandescent bulbs can be used, you might not need a 'heat bulb'. You can get red colored incandescent bulbs at a reptile supply source.