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Fotunateson

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Well the cooler weather is here for sure! I need to do a little bit of painting and came across some infrared heaters. They seem to be dual 1500 watt units for the most part. So... if I heat the panel I want to paint, either from the front or the back, would these type of heaters work for say painting a detached fender? I talked to a PPG rep and he said he would be concerned about the paint travelling from the gun in the cold air to the heated panel.

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I'd suggest getting either a medium or short wave curing lamp. Infratech is the best known.
I can attest that cold product (duh) and even a cold gun can have an effect on sprayability . I use this setup to put my product and gun in to warm them up.



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Welliknow enough to he up the paint to a decent temp as well as the gun. But what I’m asking is do these infrared heaters work? I looked curing lamps and the look to be like what I’m talking about, though not the $3000 ones. Can you explain the medium and short wave aspects?
 
Short wave is twice as fast, but a good one look a couple of thousand dollars plus.
The Infratech medium wave get the
1500 w not 1000.
Best 200 dollars you will ever spend.
 
Just yesterday I posted a new video to my YouTube channel on how I use an infrared curing lamp as a life hack for shop heat.

When I use it for painting, I bring the panel and gun into the house the day before to warm up. Alternatively you can let the panel sit under the lamp for 20-30 minutes, as well as the gun, and they will get real warm. I always store paint in the house in the winter so it’s already warm.

I just did some spraying yesterday. I spray the part outside and then as soon as it’s sprayed I move it under the curing lamp. I have the part sitting on a board so I can move it. Then once it has completely flashed off I move it into the house to continue curing.

With some thing as large as a fender, you will want to move the lamp every 15 minutes to ensure you get coverage on the entire panel.

The infrared lamps also make great heated personal workspace.

I use the Infratech SRU-1615.

 
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Short wave is twice as fast, but a good one look a couple of thousand dollars plus.
The Infratech medium wave get the
1500 w not 1000.
Best 200 dollars you will ever spend.
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BTW, the pic I posted is the 1500 watt. Infratech just has a weird numbering system. I prefer the shortwave but the medium works great too. I accidentally got a white panel up to 165 deg in about 5 min from 30 inches away.
 
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Interesting that medium wave is less color sensitive.
 
So I picked up a 1500w unit a few weeks ago with remote, 1500w is Max but it has 500 and 1000 w settings as well. Paid about $90 CDN. Now I’m just going out to pick up the same unit with out stand fo about $40 which nk I’ll mount to th vertical part of the stand so I’ll have 3000w Max. These are both 60hz which I believe is medium wave. Is that correct?

So what do you think of this proposed setup?
 

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It looks small. If the coverage area isn’t very large the extra wattage isn’t doing much for you.
 
Fotunateson said:
So I picked up a 1500w unit a few weeks ago with remote, 1500w is Max but it has 500 and 1000 w settings as well. Paid about $90 CDN. Now I’m just going out to pick up the same unit with out stand fo about $40 which nk I’ll mount to th vertical part of the stand so I’ll have 3000w Max. These are both 60hz which I believe is medium wave. Is that correct?

So what do you think of this proposed setup?
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Looking at your additional pictures, those are infrared heat lamps but don’t think they are at the right wavelength to be a good curing lamp.

60 hz is the electrical frequency at which they operate (which is standard for alternating current (AC)), that is not the wavelength.

I don’t know those lamps are what you want. There are lamps that are specifically called curing lamps.

And their coverage area is too small.
 
It’s just a heat lamp. I sometimes use a heat lamp to warm a panel but they don’t cure paint like an IR curing lamp. So it depends on what you are trying to do, heat it or cure it.

Don
 
Thanks guys, I education. I‘all scratch my idea and go looking for a proper unit. But it won’t be thousands of dollars...LOL
 
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Thanks guys, I education. I‘all scratch my idea and go looking for a proper unit. But it won’t be thousands of dollars...LOL
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The one lizer showed is the most popular one sold in the USA and been around for years.
About $200.
I dont know how anyone that paints can do without it; I talked to some body shops, and they started with one and now will have 2 to. I've heard as high as 4 units in their shop.
 
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