Re: [APML] Dry air purging

["Jim Ives" <flyboy9990@earthlink.net>]

Steve you can get the live bait well bubbler and it runs off of 2 D
batteries. It is noisy if you can stand it but it will run for several
nights even in cold weather before the batteries go.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "steve banbury" <banburys@sonic.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Dry air purging


> Hi Herm--do you have any idea how much power it draws?
> Running an inverter off a battery to mke 110vac is kind of a pain, but
> getting tarred and feathered by my fellow astrophotographer firends for
> making a bunch of noise isn't a pretty thought either!!
>
> Steve
>
> At 06:00 PM 9/4/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >I also bought a noisy cheap pump.. fortunately it only lasted a few
months.
> >The other one I got is super quiet, so I check that its running by
touching
> >it, it runs on 110VAC.
> >
> >Joe Mize <jmize@globe-net.net>  wrote:
> >
> >>Jim
> >>
> >>    The cheap pump I bought, having only one outlet, is pretty quiet on
its
> >>rubber feet.  12-15 ft away you cannot hear it at all.  I was tempted to
> get one
> >>of the dual diaphragm pumps but held off.  Maybe the extra diaphragm
> makes more
> >>noise.  Dunno.
> >>
> >>     Yes, I enjoy the night's quiet too.  I'm trying to identify a night
> time
> >>bird call which I hear a couple times a night/year.  It's not the usual
> >>identifiable bird calls, it is soft and hushed un-owel like...joe  :)
> >
> >Herm
> >Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez
> >
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