Amazing, I was just thinking about doing this this week. There's someone with a site that talks about doing this (hasn't been updated recently), but I was really wondering if it would be feasible to make this work with one of those smaller Halogen track lighting bulbs, but hadn't made it down to the store to check out wattages, etc. This is the site about a homemade clone:http://www.sdalcorn.com/coffee/siphon_heater/siphon_heater.htmlI really want to try this for cool tabletop prep. The Hario Beam Heaters run on 100 V, not 120, so it's recommended you use a step down xformer... too much bother. I was thinking that if you can run a tabletop siphon pot off a spirit lamp, as long as you pre-heated the water, a small halogen bulb should work, albiet maybe slowly... but that just means more ceremony, right? These bulbs seem to be getting harder to find since everyone is switching to LED so you get light without the heat, but in this application, it's the heat you want. I was even thinking I might be able to change out my existing Halogen bulbs in my track lighting for energy saving LED bulbs and use the old ones for this project. This site even has some colored bulbs, but it's only 35 Watts. Maybe it'd be possible to build a matrix of bulbs to multiply the heat, and you could mix and match the colors.http://www.lightbulbdepot.com/department.asp?sub=87&dep=MR8Here's their categories of heat lamps (up to 375 Watts) and cone heaters (up to 660 Watts, but no light):http://www.lightbulbdepot.com/subcategory.asp?sub=45Let me know what you come up with. I worry about putting a 120 V heat lamp under all that liquid without some sort of barrier... I'd feel safer with a fused 12 V system like the one I got from Ikea for my ceilings: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60120434-Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Allon Stern wrote: <Snip> 8&products_id=240 <Snip> ee.com <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://lists.sweetmariascoffee.com/listinfo.cgi/homeroast-sweetmariascoffee=.com Homeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee=.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7820 |