Re: laptop heater

M Berger wrote:
Don't use a cardboard box. Use a wood or metal box.


Ditto! Fire waiting to happen.

Insulate the box,put a lid on it or something,and the heat from the laptop will keep itself warm.
(ya just gotta keep the heat inside the box.)



george wrote:

Think I will experiment with a bulb in a cardboard box and see if that
will do it.

george

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