Ingeborg Foco on fri 23 jul 99
Would the person in Florida who has a difficult time firing electric between
lightening storms please respond either on or off list.
I will be moving my studio to Florida and may need to rethink my electric
bisque firings. Had thought I would get a programmable elec kiln for bisque.
The studio will not be at the residence and it seemed logical to fire thru
the night when it is cooler. I know that I'm moving to the lightening
capitol of the world but it never dawned on me about the kiln. DA !!!!
Stupid on my part.
Would a manual be less apt to get fried....Probably not just less costly to
repair. What is your experience.
Thanks in advance
Ingeborg
Pacific Northwest where we are finally getting a few days of summer.
Dave on sat 24 jul 99
I'm not the one who you are looking for but, I DO live in the lightening
capitol of the world. Here, our power is averaging going off twice a day
for the last month or so. At least one of those at night.
I don't know how it will effect you. I fire fast....and small. So far, I
have been lucky. My firing time is a max of 8 hours in a very small kiln.
Hope this info will help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ingeborg Foco
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Friday, July 23, 1999 6:12 PM
Subject: FLORIDA LIGHTENING STORMS AND KILN FIRINGS
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Would the person in Florida who has a difficult time firing electric
between
>lightening storms please respond either on or off list.
>
>I will be moving my studio to Florida and may need to rethink my electric
>bisque firings. Had thought I would get a programmable elec kiln for
bisque.
>The studio will not be at the residence and it seemed logical to fire thru
>the night when it is cooler. I know that I'm moving to the lightening
>capitol of the world but it never dawned on me about the kiln. DA !!!!
>Stupid on my part.
>
>Would a manual be less apt to get fried....Probably not just less costly to
>repair. What is your experience.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Ingeborg
>Pacific Northwest where we are finally getting a few days of summer.
w. miller on sat 24 jul 99
What part of Florida are you moving to? At least on the east coast, the
typical thunder storm comes in the afternoon in the summer, so that should
work out all right. Over near Tampa, however, it might be a different story.
That area's the lightening capital of the universe, I'm told.
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Ingeborg Foco on sun 25 jul 99
I will be moving to SW Florida( Lee County specifically) I suppose I'll
regret my complaining about rain in the Pacific Northwest....Hurricanes and
lightning storms should certainly make life interesting
Ingeborg
Cheryl Fisher on sun 25 jul 99
I have a kiln at home (Olympic - manual) and one at school (Skutt with
computer controller). The one at school I fire during the day (7:00 a.m.
to 2:30-3:00 p.m. or midnight depending upon whether or not I'm doing a
fast or slow firing. I don't turn it off. I've fired for 26 years at the
school and never had a problem with lightning striking (previous kiln
was a Jen Kens - manual. )As far as lightning and weather you never
know. If there are severe storms usually you get a warning, and you
could always go to where the kiln will be located and turn off. Back in
the 50's and 60's you could depend upon a rain storm everyday around
2:00-2:30 p.m. That has changed some. This past spring there was no rain
- no storms and we were under a high fire index. Around the end of May
beginning of June we started having lightning storms every day, although
they didn't always produce rain. I wish I had watched a program that I
caught the tail end of this morning. They were stating that there were
more tornadoes in Florida in the summer but they were not as severe. The
worst ones were in the later winter early spring where there were fewer
but stronger ones. They stated that there were storms developing between
the 3:00-6:00 p.m. In the last month a lot of the storms were developing
around 4:30, although sometime were were hit with some later in the
evening. I guess this is a long way of saying you can't guarantee when
storms will arise but many you know about ahead of time, so you could
adjust your firing. Again sometimes there's not a cloud in the sky but
lightning strikes.
By the way I'm in Sarasota which is an hour south west of Tampa on the
Gulf of Mexico. Something is in the back of my mind that Tampa area was
noted for it's lightning.
"w. miller" wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> What part of Florida are you moving to? At least on the east coast, the
> typical thunder storm comes in the afternoon in the summer, so that should
> work out all right. Over near Tampa, however, it might be a different story.
> That area's the lightening capital of the universe, I'm told.
> --
>
> mailto:willimiller@floridafeatures.com http://www.floridafeatures.com
> (Ms.)Willi Miller at Florida Features
> Write - Edit - Illustrate - Produce for Print - Business - Radio
> plus Borzoi Calendars & Wolfie Treats
> Box 651433 - Vero Beach, FL - 32965-1433
--
Cheryl F.
cafish@gte.net
Sarasota, FL
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