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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 used to use a four bulb hanging incubator with a 25W bulb in the socket that's on all the time and 40W bulbsthat were controlled by the wafer switch. It served double duty as an incubator during late spring. With four bulbs I had back up when they wouldburn out.
There are numerous advantages to using Econo-Heat electric wall panel heaters. They save on floorspace, are safe to use around children and pets, operate at the same electricity cost of just four incandescent light bulbs and can be painted to match any décor with PVA or emulsion type paint (do not use oil based paint).
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.
Every other year or so, I drag out my strings of C9! bulbs to put on my fake tree for nostalgia's sake ( I miss my grandma and granpa ). They do get very warm, but I have never had a problem. I unplug the tree before bed and plug it in around 2 or 3 in the afternoon with the big lights on the tree.
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.
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.