DIY Near Infrared Sauna Build with modified Dr Wilson heat lamp bulb design underway.
Video Transcript
Finally, finally, finally, solved the mounting issue.
This has been plaguing and plaguing and plaguing.
How do we do this?
Finally figured it out and these stupid clamp lights, if you notice, I’m testing all of them without bulbs because if it falls and it shatters, even though they’re not hot, these things, I can’t stand these things.
See how it just like eventually wiggles down, right?
They can’t be trusted.
There’s like, I just have a serious disdain for these clamp lights, but you know what?
They work.
Even the porcelain ones, they’re probably like five bucks more each and these are kind of, I mean, even the shield, the heat shield is kind of cheap.
It’s a little bit bent.
They come that way, but at least it’s porcelain and it won’t melt with a 250 watt heat lamp bulb.
I finally figured out how to do away with the clamps and get this mounted correctly.
Also a sliding headlamp and that’ll get remounted.
So there’ll be options.
So you can have, I think this is an improvement on the original Dr.
Wilson design.
So instead of, one of the issues with these, oh and by the way, this particular grow tent, even though there were some stuff that I didn’t like about it, this is better than the other one because this is double lined.
So there’s actually another floor layer underneath this and this comes out.
So if you put towels down or if you sweat in this, it’s like a tray, right?
So it catches everything.
I think this is really good.
This is way better than the other grow tent.
It’s probably, you know, 20 bucks more.
Originally I was like, eh, these things broke right away.
It’s kind of cheap quality.
I hate that this is Reflectix like foil and this is kind of like a cheap vinyl and it’s kind of stupid, you know?
These things are all over the place and it’s not really, you don’t really need those in here.
There’s another couple, oh there we go, another one, another one fallen.
So this has been quite the adventure on learning how to adapt this thing.
But what I was trying to say is, one of the issues with the original Dr.
Wilson design is that the heat is all concentrated right here in a diamond pattern.
And the idea is that it projects out and hits your core, right?
And gets you to core sweat faster.
But one of the issues is, you’re rotating such like a rotisserie, if you could control the heat more and kind of spread it out a little bit, you have options.
You could have, instead of just having all the heat on one side, you could have some of the heat on one side, you could have some on the other.
If, once you see how I hook these up to remote controls, you’ll be able to independently adjust them if you want.
You can have, you know, there’s a lot of things that you can do with it.
But the cool thing is, once you figure out how to get these things moving, right, and have them not kill you when they fall on your head, it’s actually not that bad.
There’s a couple other caveats.
I’m gonna have to have full disclosure.
I don’t know why, for some reason, I thought that all the Grotents would have double zippers, but they don’t.
So one of the issues is, have fun zipping yourself up when you get in there.
I mean, it’s doable.
I just did it a few minutes ago.
It’s just kind of like one of those nitpicky things.
If this was an actual sauna tent, or sauna… ow!
And I got the extra tall one, right?
So I don’t know if you can see this, but I can actually stand up in here.
I’m six feet tall.
So the reason that I got one of these, and it’s really not the best choice because it takes longer to heat the cabin air and stuff like that, but still, being able to move around in here, I mean, you can see how big I am.
This is a huge improvement over the tent saunas that I complain about.
But one of the things that’s cumbersome is, you know, not being able to zip yourself up.
But I’ve been able to figure out how to do it.
You kind of just hold your hand, you know, outside like this.
You pull the zipper down, and then this is sort of… there’s one little window, so you can kind of see what’s going on, and then you’ve got complete adjustment over the lights.
And I’m gonna change this… well, you can’t see now, can you?
Hello!
Give us some light.
Anyway, you get the idea.
This isn’t…
I’ve almost got the tutorial videos done.
Probably gonna just give this… give it away to a few people, make sure everything is good.
And I’m gonna show you how this works once I get it all wired up.
This will be all nice and tidied.
I really, really, really do dig.
Like, even though this doesn’t have double zippers and all that other stuff, there’s a couple cool things like the tray and a few other things that I was talking about.
There’s really no other source of light, though, until you turn the bulbs on, other than this one little window.
And it has… there’s another… there’s some vents down here.
I’ll show you.
There’s also a cover like this that goes over the window, but you have to cover these because this is mesh, so it’ll let all the heat out.
But the cool thing is, with as many bulbs and as many different configuration options as I’ve got going on in here, one neat idea would be maybe to leave a mesh cover off and then leave some of this unzipped and let air flow through.
I think it’ll still be enough to heat you up.
I’m gonna test this out a bunch of different ways myself, but you’re gonna see in the tutorial videos where it’s me in here, it’ll make a lot of sense.
And I think there’s gonna be a lot of options for a bunch of different configurations because some people don’t like the fact that they’re zipped up, and I get that.
I think there’s a way around it.
So good things coming.
Definitely made some headway with the mounting.
Get rid of these clamps.
Won’t have that issue anymore.
And I’m looking forward to it.
It’s kind of cool.
It’s definitely not a stand-up sauna.
It doesn’t have… let’s see… it’s definitely lacking as far as… you know… well, that was a good example.
Did you see how I just pulled on that?
That’s how the bulb… shit.
That’s exactly what I’ve been talking about.
So I took all the bulbs out because that’s what happens when you’re in there.
And that’s what I’ve been racking my brain of over for… what’s going on in there?
Come on.
This has been working perfectly the whole time.
Probably because I’m trying to hold this and film, but all I was trying to show you is that’s what I’ve been racking my brain over for a whole week now.
How do I fix that problem for people?
How do I make sure that people don’t get burned?
There’s got to be better ways, but what I’m trying to show you here is just what it looks like aesthetically.
It’s not, you know, it’s not the best thing in as far as aesthetics in the room, but you know what?
If you don’t have a lot of money, you need a sauna, it’s definitely gonna work.
It’s… let’s see if we can show it this way.
That’s what it looks like.
These are those vent things that I was talking about.
They’re kind of useless, but there’s really no way to plug them or whatever, but that’s what it looks like.