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RE: HD8 caruretor icing

To: "'Triumphs@Autox Net \(E-mail\)'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: HD8 caruretor icing
From: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 17:18:13 -0800
> It seems you could make a set very easily from a length of
> house water pipe anti-freeze heater cord.  Since the cords
> are usually around 10-20 feet long and run on 120VAC
> I'm sure a cut down piece, wrapped around the damper chamber
> twice, two carbs in series, could run off 12VDC just fine.
> Run a switch or a thermal sensor and your in business.

It's possible I'm mistaken ... but I don't think that will work.  At least
on the heat tape I used to have, the resistance was not in the outer wires,
but in the web between the wires.  So cutting it shorter would increase the
resistance, not reduce it.

Randall




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