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#277141 - 12/03/09 08:55 AM
Electric keyboard warmer
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Senior Member
Registered: 01/27/01
Posts: 2227
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I just purchased this battery powered electric blanket for my keyboard: http://www.sportsimportsltd.com/sofl12voheel.html?site=google_base. Let's see how it works. My car, a 2007 Kia Optima, has an electric outlet in the trunk where I always keep one of my PSR-S910's. Normally, on super cold days, I lug the keyboard inside to warm up. Sometimes I forget, and when I get to my job, the keyboard is frozen, and I risk ruining the electronics by turning on the keyboard too soon. The plan is to keep the blanket in my gig bag over the keyboard. On a really cold day, I would unzip the gig bag to fish out the electric blanket's cigarette lighter plug and plug it into the car's outlet. Then when I'm driving the keyboard will get warmed up, hopefully not fried! Hopefully, the blanket will warm up my speakers a litle too! Do you think this is risky? Fire in my trunk? Exploding car? Melted keyboard? Beakybird
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#277145 - 12/03/09 11:11 AM
Re: Electric keyboard warmer
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Senior Member
Registered: 12/08/02
Posts: 15576
Loc: Forest Hill, MD USA
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My gear rarely comes out of the van. Much of this is due to the fact that I perform daily, often 5 to 7 days a week, and during the dead of winter the schedule often includes doubles. The car rarely gets too warm in summer because I NEVER park in direct sunlight. Temperatures inside your car can reach 160 or more degrees, especially if you have a dark colored vehicle. In the winter, temperatures can fall to zero or below here, but the norm is usually 30 to 40 degrees. If the equipment is going to be used in a warm, moist environment, the first thing I do is turn on my Turbo Fan and aim it directly at the keyboard. This does a great job in preventing any condensation from forming and warms the equipment up fairly fast. I only knew of one individual that used an electric blanket to keep his keyboard warm. The blanket ran his battery down to the point where his car wouldn't start the next day. He threw the blanket in the trash that afternoon. Cheers, Gary
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