weirdjim
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I like to do a sauna to relax after a long flight. There, now this is an airplane thread.
I'm doing a do-it-yourself sauna and I've got the woodwork and the wall/ceiling insulation just about where I want them. Now comes time to build the heater. Conventional wisdom is that it takes about 15 watts/cubic foot to bring the sauna to about 175 air temp in half an hour or so and keep it there.
For a 6 x 6 x 7 sauna, this works out to about 4 kW. I'd like to do some sort of horizontal square metal plate with the heater element attached so that I can drip water on the plate for humidity without shock-cooling the heating element itself. I'd like to keep the plate to something on the order of 18" square (or a rectangle of the same area) so that the whole inside of the sauna isn't dominated by the heater.
Suggestions appreciated.
Jim
I'm doing a do-it-yourself sauna and I've got the woodwork and the wall/ceiling insulation just about where I want them. Now comes time to build the heater. Conventional wisdom is that it takes about 15 watts/cubic foot to bring the sauna to about 175 air temp in half an hour or so and keep it there.
For a 6 x 6 x 7 sauna, this works out to about 4 kW. I'd like to do some sort of horizontal square metal plate with the heater element attached so that I can drip water on the plate for humidity without shock-cooling the heating element itself. I'd like to keep the plate to something on the order of 18" square (or a rectangle of the same area) so that the whole inside of the sauna isn't dominated by the heater.
Suggestions appreciated.
Jim