Hot floor from Sunflower?

[Dances with Walleye]

Okay... So I don't own a portable or a sunflower... My friends all have portables, so I just use their clams...

I've fished out of a bunch of 5600's with Sunflower heaters...

This weekend my buddy and I were fishing out of his new 5600 with his new sunflower... Even with the heater set on it's lowest setting, the floor was getting hot... And for a moment there it looked like it might be about to melt. (We had it mounted in the cage rack)

Solution we used was to set it on the spare hatch doors... Wood being a poor conductor of heat, the problem was solved.

But now we're left with the quandry of "Why did it start to melt the floor?" Or "Has anyone else had this problem and what did you do?"

Thanks in Advance!

[slipperybob]

Hmmm...personally I've haven't gotten to the point of near floor melt, yet. But I do have a little portable aluminum table about 12"x12" just in case. I've got a calm 1060 and Ice Cube so it's always been on the ice.

[Dances with Walleye]

Yeah my usual fishing buddy and I fish out of his 1060... But his schedule has become complicated due to a death in the family and other stuff... So now I'm fishing with the guys who have 5600, and working out all the little somantics in their gear.

[lunker651]

No problems here, The floor might get a little warm with the heater on but that is what I like, it melts the snow/ice on the floor.

[Ferny]

Why did it start to melt the floor?

Dark colors absorb heat lighter colors reflect heat.

Did you ever wear a black shirt on a sunny day?

How about a white shirt?

Which one was hotter?

Ferny.

[slipperybob]

I prefer dark color shirts in the heat of summer when I'm sweating profusely...It helps to absorb sunlight, heat that in turn vaporizes the sweat, that in turn cools the body.

If I wasn't sweating and didn't want to sweat, I'll wear lighter color shirts.

I'm not sure if the color of the flooring has as much to do as with the melting point of the chemical make up of it. Afterall the light energy factor in a sunflower heater is minimal. Some of those polyurethane plastics (or whatever it's made of) have different heat tolerance. That's where you see one egg flipping plastic spatula that costs $2 and one may cost $10. The $2 one may melt at a much lower temperature while the more expensive one keeps it's shape.

[Dances with Walleye]

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Why did it start to melt the floor?

Dark colors absorb heat lighter colors reflect heat.

Did you ever wear a black shirt on a sunny day?

How about a white shirt?

Which one was hotter?

Ferny.

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Unfortunately that's the physics of photons and heat from light...

Where as this is radiant heat that is causing the melt of the floor.

[slipperybob]

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Why did it start to melt the floor?

Dark colors absorb heat lighter colors reflect heat.

Did you ever wear a black shirt on a sunny day?

How about a white shirt?

Which one was hotter?

Ferny.

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Unfortunately that's the physics of photons and heat from light...

Where as this is radiant heat that is causing the melt of the floor.

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The Sun Flower!!!! doooh! says Homer Simpson.

followed by Krusty the clown laugh...