Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
The IR lamp I am looking at won't have any guidelines for powder coating because its used for heating. Enco Tool has a couple that look pretty large that are less expensive than the ones I normally see for powder coating.
One of them is a 5120 BTU rating, 1500 watts, 120 volt and is 46 inches long. The other one is 102390 BTU rating, 3000 watts, 240 volts and is 57 inches long. From reading the forum I can tell that an oven is real the way to go for the kinds of parts and sizes I generally will be doing but I thought I may be able to build a sheetmetal type box around 2 of these lights and I may be able to do the bracketry type parts that I need. I have read any information on the forum I could find about building an oven but to be honest I'm not much of an electrician. I did buy a small lab oven on ebay but something I think something is wrong with it. It only heats a part up to 200 degrees. At any rate I thought thes lamps may be adequate for my needs (especially 2 in one enclosed box).
Do the lamps I mentioned sound like a worth while alternative? If so is the smaller one powerful enough or do I need the big one. The price difference is not much but I wonder about the cost to operate them.
I would still need some curing guidelines.
Thanks again for any help, and sorry about the length of this post.
Steve
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