Aquatic Plants Digest V1 #39

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• Subject: Aquatic Plants Digest V1 #39
• From: glen at harlie_pps.com (Glen Osterhout)
• Date: Thu, 27 Apr 95 10:09:37 EDT
• Cc: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
• In-Reply-To: Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com's message of Thu, 27 Apr 1995 03:39:02 -0400 <199504270739.DAA08482 at looney_actwin.com>

>Nichrome wire is incredibly cheap, but you might have to get it in a
>spool. I got mine at the university's chemistry stockroom, because they
>use it to make impromptu heaters for experiments.  Sources?  Maybe 
>industrial wire suppliers or chemical supply houses. 
>
>Resistance.. Hm, I don't have a handy table, but I am sure there is a LOW 
>enough resistance available.  I know this because when I built my acrylic 
>bender (ran on 80-120V) I had to make the wire into a coil (using a drill
>and a dowell).  No doubt you can get a table of resistances from the 
>supplier.
>
>     - Erik

Or from a good reference book (I just happen to have this handy
from when I did research for my setup)

    Nichrome
Gauge	ohms per cm
---------------------
10  	.0021281
12  	.0033751
14  	.0054054
16  	.0085116
18  	.0138383
20  	.0216218
22  	.0346040
24  	.0548088
26  	.0875760
28  	.1394328
30  	.2214000

-Glen

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