My warming cabinet is an insulated tea chest with a soil warming cable zig -zagged at the base

 

I use an old 25 cubic foot freezer as a warmer.  As mentioned before, I use two 100 watt light bulbs as a heat source, but to keep the temperature even, I also run a small computer fan that moves the air past the light bulbs and around the chamber.  It is controlled by an old bimetallic thermostat that I had to adjust to have it hold 100 degrees F.  This is large enough to warm a lot of honey.  Two crystalized 60 pound buckets will liquefy in 48 hours.

 

I also have a smaller warmer I use for warming cool supers before I extract them.  It runs on a 100 watt heating cable I bought from American Science and Surplus.  Air is forces up through a stack of supers by a fan.

 

Larry Krengel

Northern Illinois

 


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