Recent content by MarHam

This is exactly what I have ended up doing and it works a treat! I agree with others that a tubular heater may be safer, but some have an internal cutout that is too low to reach the temperature required and this is not always easy to find out before buying. I also considered using a ceramic...

This is pretty much what I have done. Mine is 60cm deep/high and the width of a national brood/super, so I can simply add supers above if needed prior to extraction, or make it taller to use for a home brew bucket if needed.

Interested to hear how long you might think reasonable to keep the OMF over the entrance for? Reason I'm asking is I need to replace the shed near to my hives in the garden and am wondering if I can close them off for a day at a time (maybe opening in the late aft/evening) for maybe 3 days...

Hi Ben, Thanks for your reply. I went ahead and got the same heating element you did - like you say, more control as there is not the chance of having a thermostat/temp cutoff built in. I had it up and running last night and it reached 40 degrees pretty quick. Regarding the STC1000, I think it...

My first attempt at a cabinet looks remarkably like yours does :), but a bit smaller (only big enough for a 1 ft tube heater). After using for a month or two, are you happy with the performance and the temperature it reaches or have you changed to a different heater? Is that also an stc-1000...

I bought one from tool stn for my first attempt at a warming cabinet and it didn't get above 32 deg even inside a warm house, so I think it has a thermal cutoff of about 30 deg. It seems to have destroyed the heating relay in my stc-1000 too...at least that's what I am blaming it on. I'll...