From: Eric Neilsen (e.neilsen@worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/27/02-07:14:57 PM Z
Jeff, When I lived up ion Taos, I used one room of my house as my
darkroom studio. It had electric base board heat as well as a wood
burning stove. The base board was not forced air and did a fine job but
req1uired lots of money. The wood burning stove was fine, but was no
good if I was making B&W prints or film developing. It was really not a
problem. Dust was a hugh problem and not the lint dust of a home in
Dallas, but the gritty dust of wind blown days of 5% humidity in winter.
I also ran air cleaners all the time.
Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
http://ericneilsenphotgraphy.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Buck [mailto:jeffbuck@swcp.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:40 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Heat is Neat
Hello List
I gotta rig my work area for the winter soon. It's unheated at present.
I
live in the middle of New Mexico at ~5000 feet. It is very dry in the
cool
half of the year. Pretty cold, though.
I work in a well-insulated garage. It's 18x20 but the part that needs
to
be heated is more like 18x12 (one end being cut off more or less by a
canvas tarp).
I'm not too excited about any kind of forced-air heating. The units are
very expensive, they raise dust, and they dry the already dry air.
Also,
they chew a lot of amps, and I'm sucking plenty in the area as it is --
two
lines filled pretty close to the brim (1000W halide lamp, swamp cooler,
ceiling exhaust fan, any number of room lights, hair dryer, microwave,
etc.
etc.).
It's a small enough space that I can supply plenty of humidity w/ room
humidifiers of any of several kinds.
Suggestions? Bad experiences? What about pellet stoves? Just plain
wood
stoves? Radiant heating units?
-jeff buckels
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