Humi heater

Ok as most of you guys know I live in Maine. Well it is pretty cold here and while my new fridgeador does a great job colling in the summer it needed a little something to help in the winter. So I built a heater for it. I took one 120vac baseboard heat thermostat 120v used it to switch a high amp power supply that I has scavenged from something a long time ago and a heater. For a while I could not think of what to use for heat. I looked at small heaters and thought about a peltier unit for those that did not know these can be as a heater or a cooler by reversing the polarities but that woudl have required cutting into the fridge. Well yesterday while xmas shopping with my wife and wandering the isles of wally world I found it. A 12 volt rear window defroster. Small self contained with its own fan. So I wired up the heater to my controls and wired that into the power supply for the compressor and wa la heat.This will be removed in the summer unless I line it with cedar then I might build it in.

O yea heater was 14 bucks the thermostat was 20 at home depot and the power was scavenged.

LOL I took most of the cigars out to take the picture..

kuzi16 said:

was it really getting that cold inside the humi?

or is this more or less to keep it constant? I know that many people including myself turn down the house at night to save on heating cost.

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Yes it was going down to 62. I keep my room at 62 to 68. So this is to keep the heat up ans to maintain it. Seems to be working pretty good so far...