Quote from: BrianS on August 21, 2014, 04:45:44 PMI was lucky to find them for free, and lucky they were 8 ohms. I'm not 100% sure they were base board heaters, but was told they were. I believe they were industrial as they came out of a college.
g1, can you tell me a little more about the heating elements? I may have a couple different sources for something like that. Was it luck that they ohmed out correctly, or lucky that you found them?
They are about 2 feet long, with ceramic squares stacked and a single thick wire spiraling along the length. Any modern elements I see pics of are the finned type, which would not allow changing impedance.
I will try to post a pic, maybe someone will recognize the type.
Meanwhile, thinking about this has made me wonder about stove-top electric elements. Anybody try these or know if they would be a viable load?