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RE: "Interesting" Lighting/Heating
Jean wrote:
> He had an "interesting" (potentially fatal, in fact!) way of heating those >basement tanks - he had ordinary incandescent bulbs, hanging downwards from >ceramic sockets screwed to a board, partially submerged IN the water of each >tank. Heat and light at the same time. <snip> The bulbs, burning 24 hours >a day, lasted for years, probably because they never got very hot.
This was not rare, some of the old aquarium literature
suggests such practice, I know at least one of my old books
has such a scheme - tank keepers seem to have always valued
functionality over safety. That practice does seem to have
faded before even my time. (:->)
RTR/Robert