Heat box
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I decided to make a heat box for the laptop on cold winter month, since the telescope is opened to the outside an you need a computer for astroimaging using a autoguider and other cameras for astrophotography. The heatbox is made of osb board, has bubble wrap reflective insulation, a light bulb, and a 120v thermostat.
The heat sorce is a 70wat light bulb to heat the inside the box to a temperature on cold nights computers do not like the extream colds down to 10 degrees f, the thermostat is a honeywell base bord 120v because its wired up to a 110, do not use a wall thermostat like in your house they have low voltage to turn off a your furnace.
The heat box is mounted in the inside of the observatory wall.
The box also keeps the laptop out of the open air causing frost in the winter, dew in the summer to build up on the laptop when I had it on a small table stand.
The heat sorce is a 70wat light bulb to heat the inside the box to a temperature on cold nights computers do not like the extream colds down to 10 degrees f, the thermostat is a honeywell base bord 120v because its wired up to a 110, do not use a wall thermostat like in your house they have low voltage to turn off a your furnace.
The heat box is mounted in the inside of the observatory wall.
The box also keeps the laptop out of the open air causing frost in the winter, dew in the summer to build up on the laptop when I had it on a small table stand.
