dimmer

[trav whitmer]

My 52oz on my desk at work tends to take about 2 hours to get going, then two hours or so after that it's a bunch of little blobs floating at the top with minimal other movement. I had been turning on a fan pointed towards my desk because our room had horrible ventilation. After leaving that running for a while, it would go down to just barely too cool, with a big blob at the bottom and one or two largish blobs in motion. Then I could cycle the fan on and off, or aim it a little off to the side, or generally go through some hassle and keep it running fairly well until time to go home.

They took a wall off our room over thanksgiving, opening us to the rest of the building's ventilation so we're a little cooler now, but it was still going a little hot. 

Rather than mess with the fan anymore, I finally went and got a dimmer for it today. Any advice for narrowing in on the sweet spot other than trying to resist adjusting it any more often than once every half hour or so? I'm super impatient about stuff like that.

[trav whitmer]

it's a china lite.

 

i think my original post was a little unclear. it takes a while to get going, then runs well for a bit, then gets too hot and has all the bubbles at the top. so the fan was an effort to cool it down from that. the problem is it oscillates between a little too hot and a little too cold. i was hoping the dimmer would be an easier way to regulate it to flowing well once it gets going instead of blasting it with a fan that, even on the lowest setting, always made it too cold.

[trav whitmer]

i had tried when i first got it to find a frosted bulb, but could never find them in any sort of reasonable packaging, like just 1 or 2. i found 6 packs at one point, but i have no use for 5 other bulbs lying around getting lost or broken before the first one burns out. so several months later, i found the dimmer for what i figured was a reasonable amount and got it instead.

[asdfasdf]

I'd suggest that you want for the lamp to hit its stride (i.e. bubbling nicely), then put the dimmer to about 60%. That's what works for me on the Grande that works. You could probably just set it to 60% out of the gate, but then I'd think it would take 4 hours to heat up rather than 2 hours.