Did67 wrote:Antifreeze cord in chassis
The sudden drop in temperatures allowed me to test my "anti-freeze electrical cord".
These are the electric cables used mainly to maintain the freezing of external pipes.
I acquired a model with thermostat, set to + 3 ° [below, it snaps; above 6 °, this is triggered], of length 12 m, with characteristic power of 10 W / m. So 120 W in everything. Value: about 55 euros (still!).
This is very easy to ask: it is a loop, very flexible. I used the sardines that I use to fix my drip, and I made a kind of mesh with constant spacing of approximately 20 cm, on the bottom of my chassis. Above the hay. Below the plates.
I plugged yesterday to 16 h. The temperature in the chassis, covered with 25 or 30 cm of snow, was very close to 0 °.
In the hour that followed, she moved to + 3 °.
And since then, it has stayed ...
Of course, it "bothers" me, in my "more than organic" garden, to have a predominantly nuclear electricity consumption.
Nothing is ever perfect in this world! Not even the weather, which forces me to resort to such contortions!
It's true that it's not glop
There is really no way to protect to avoid the worst without wanting to increase temperature?
Stagger the seedlings in time?
Is it a problem?