Ice Melting Bucket
Ice Melting Bucket
A UCSD outreach organization requested a way to melt ice faster.
I designed a bucket that has it's bottom cut out, mounted over a stainless steel cloche, that has heat lamps inside of it.
This significantly increased the rate the ice melts in the bucket.
Testing
Plates with heat shield
Shield in cloche
Testing Heat Lamp Control
GFCI Protected Control Switch
CAD of the steel heat plates
CAD of the Bucket
CAD Design of whole competition table