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Calculating and Customizing Telescope Dew Heater Bands for Optimal Performance
I want to make my own scope dew heaters, I have 8 meters of nichrome band, with 1,82 ohm/meter resistance. How do I calculate the length for a specific temperature (around 8 Celsius over ambient) and how to wrap it i.e. in a coil or in a series of parallel 320° circles? The circumference of the...- ecjoyner
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- Band Heat and thermodynamics Heater Nichrome Telescope
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