Rich Willbanks wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
RJT> I've got a 100 foot cord that I use from time to time to run my 
RJT> drill outside, and it doesn't do all that well,  tending to run 
RJT> hot.  I believe it's 16 gauge.  I probably oughta invest in 
RJT> something a litle heavier one of these days... 
 RW> Either you have one heck of a drill or drilling a lot of holes.
Actually,  I was doing a lot of sanding a while back,  running the thing 
continuously for some hours at a stretch.
 RW> I use a 1500W tank heater on the horse trough when I get tired 
 RW> of hacking holes in the pond. The 100' cord I use doesn't get 
 RW> that warm.  Of course the fact that the air temp is around 10 
 RW> degrees could have something to do with that.
You think?  Yeah,  you might have something there...  
 RW> a wood stove but used 220 VAC electric heaters from time to 
 RW> time.  So he put 220 outlets in several rooms.
RJT> I was flipping through some old papers last night and came 
RJT> across copies of an article written for Byte magazine in which 
RJT> Steve Ciarcia discussed the idea of a computer-controlled wood 
RJT> stove.  He had some interesting things to say in there...
 RW> Hummmm... That could be interesting.  Have an O2 and a temp 
 RW> sensor to regulate a forced air intake.  A heat exchanger with 
 RW> a CO detector that could set off an alarm or even automatically 
 RW> force fresh air into the house.  Plus dozens of other things a 
 RW> person could come up with.
Actually,  most of it was dealing with the hot water circulator (w/ two heat 
exchangers with fans) that was running through his existing oil-fired setup.  
The woodstove itself was basically run full-blast all the time it was run...
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