George65
The candle stuff does just what I need it to do, keep the chill off. No fast burn needed merely nice slow heat. If I want bigger, I'll run to the hobby outlet and get the bigger 3-wick types you can all but cook on.
I agree a bigger wick would work better, we don't always get a complete burn. Since most of this stuff is free/cheap; it'll do until my veggie oil is filtered and we have enough to last through the coldest parts.
Biggest problem? Keeping the candles up high enough so the DOG does lick up the fuel.
This is what Toby looks like once he got caught.
Dumbest thing I did was stop veggie oil gathering and filtering.
At the time, I was getting $0.60/US gal for the filtered stuff.
I have the parts to build a drip heater, building these come easy, from my old ARMY days when we heated the GP-Medium tents with diesel heaters and a Jerry can.
Here's a link to the LEDs
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/5V-2-5W-USB-Grow-Light-Indoor-Flowering-Vegs-Potted-Plants-Growth-LED-Lights-Lamp-For/32803159235.htmlThey're only 2.5 watts/ea , and here's what two look like with a Mylar surrounding.
These mess with my eye sight, but the backs are slightly toasty so heat gained for plants; I have a touchless thermometer; I'll get a temp reading on these soon. They're supposed to run at 5V 1A but I have them on a 110Vac to 5Vdc 800mA adapters (makes life easier)
Here's the newest addition to our culinary plate
These are yellow tomatoes, I didn't have as many problems with aphids on these as I did the better boys. The heirloom reds didn't have ANY problems with bugs, so go figure.
Here's a recent harvest. The heirlooms are the bigger of the bunch. With frost always looming; we pick them yellow-ish and the Roma/cherry hybird ones green with white bottoms These were completely volunteers that came up close the one of the compost bins.