re: Electric Heater controls

["VanDerWal, Peter MSgt" <vanderwp@fhu.disa.mil>]

>My Sparrow has a (ceramic?) heater in it. The problem I have is that it's 
>TOO MUCH heat. (and not enough air - wimpy muffin fan.) It would be real 
>nice to be able to turn down the heater output.
>Is there any not-too-expensive way to do this?

Is it a standard(?) ceramic element with 5 connections?  As I recall (it was
over a year ago) mine was wired with one side of the pack going to every
other connection, i.e. if the connections were numbered (from one side to
the other) 1,2,3,4,5 then one side of the pack was wired to 1&3&5 in
parallel.  The other side of the pack was wired to 2&4 in parallel.

If you were to say disconnect #2 then only half the element would be active
and that should cut your heat in half.

Actually the best way would probably be to disconnect 1 and 5, this would
leave the center half of the element active with the outsides colder.  I.e.
the electricity would flow from 3 to 2&4.
Use a switch and you can have high and low heat.