I swear that every year I say I'm going to build a heater for my garage refrigerator. Well this year I'm *seriously* saying that I'm going to think about maybe building a heater for my garage refrigerator (GR).
Up here in Central New York the temp has been about 15 below at night, warming up to close to Zero during the day. As such, the beer collection in my GR is at risk of freezing and exploding out of the bottles. Well I simply can't have this, hence this post.
What I'm thinking of doing is trying to rig a type of heating unit to a cheap thermostat that'll kick power on when it gets down to below say 35 degrees or so. Maybe one of those old metal coffee heater coils that you used to stick in a Cup-O-Soup or a mug of joe would do the trick. As for the thermostat, I'm sort of open to suggestions.
I've googled, but haven't had any luck with a store bought product (although they do make fridges with this feature already incorporated). Anyone ever hear of one of these? What about a cheap thermostat? I'm open to suggestions.
Thank you.
JP
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