(meteorobs) Heat required to prevent dew in a box for allsky camera
Chris Peterson
clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Sat Nov 22 15:50:27 EST 2014
A good ball bearing fan should last for years. In fact, in more than ten
years and dozens of cameras we've never had one fail. If the fan were to
fail in one of my cameras, all that would happen is that the dome would
be susceptible to dewing. It couldn't result in an ugly failure of any
components or melting of the dome.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
On 11/22/2014 1:37 PM, James Beauchamp wrote:
> The fan does a good job of moving the air, but they fail about every six months in mine, resulting in uneven heating. Before reducing the heat, the natural convection in a failed fan situation caused it to melt the acrylic dome in two distinct spots.
>
> I did send a recommendation to put the resistors in series, or increase their value to bring it down to 20 watts or so.
>
> I bought a small lot of 2" fans from All Electronics and check it regularly.
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