Hi, I grew up in the tropics and have a question about cold weather life: why isn’t there a product like some kind of heat tape to let you warm glassy surfaces to prevent the buildup of snow and ice?
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Like car windows? I’d guess it’s just such a battery killer; if your car was inside (i.e. where power likely available) it wouldn’t be much of an issue in the first place.
Something you could turn on minutes before you wanted to go drive, say.
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starting up your car remotely is the typical solution
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So that’s how people do it!
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Grew up in Michigan just going out & starting the car 10min before leaving. Next: remote start. Generally it's also an issue of power. Heat tape (or similar) needs a power source to generate the heat, and don't have that w/o the car battery on. If car is on, the heater is, too :)
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Did you also have to scrape off the snow and ice, or was starting the car sufficient to just deal with it?
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Starting the car was sufficient to melt the snow/ice to the point where scraping was a non-issue. Only exception was when we had ice storms, but it's not very common even in Michigan.
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Worst I’ve experienced was when I left the scraper inside the car, and the doors were frozen shut. “uhhh… now what?” :P (also from a hot climate, oops)
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Throw hot water at your car duh (this is from Missouri where it never got cold enough to make this a bad idea)
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What would make this a bad idea?
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I guess that exists for (most?) rear-windows, with their built-in defroster conductors. Not sure why we don’t see them for say the windscreen (but finer obviously), or removable.
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Yea that’s what I’ve been puzzled by
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