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make for a much nicer end product
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Looks like it says 3-32V ?!?
Did you rtfm or am I missing something?
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Thanks. Iâll look into it.
RTFM? Can you elaborate?
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Read the fine manualâŚ
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Enough spoons already!
Someone hand this kid a forkâŚ
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I looked yes. What do you mean exactly? As I have said before, this is the first time ever I have worked with electricity and my knowledge of it is bare bones at most.
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I was asking @SidViscous why he thought that SSR wouldnât work.
Pretty sure itâs because he read the OUTPUT specs rather than the INPUT.
Yes, I quoted your post. For the 1k word substitute that supports my contention that the SSR you have will suffice.
I doubt you looked at the manual for the SSR. Which is the fine manual I was asking mr homogenius if he had readz.
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Yes to clarify the issue with the SSR as far as working with a battery: the relay can switch only AC power, not the DC coming from the battery. This is okay with a power supply because you will switch the 120vac coming into the P/S, but there is no way to switch the 12vcd leaving the P/S or a battery with your SSR. This is specific to solid state relays, a mechanical relay would work fine. However, it makes more sense to ditch the battery from the scenario than the SSR because the P/S is cheap and because the battery is less than ideal in the first place
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Thank you. I bought the power cord they linked and when it arrives I will go from there. Is there anything I need to do to my PID setup in my pictures I posted that you can notice or anyone can notice?
You could have just asked me for a returned farmer. I would have saved you all this time and effort and probably like 50 dollars lol
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Yeah my bad, didnt notice his load was 12v⌠throw away that SSR now. get a 12v load one.
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@SidViscous has provided an appropriate wiring diagram & @Graywolf a schematic to implement
And I believe @Graywolf pointed to a 1A 12V power supply.
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I bought the power supply. Do i toss this ssr and purchase a smaller one?
Nope!
You just need to figure out how youâre interfacing the 110V input on that power supply with the output pins on the SSR.
And the output of the power supply with your heater elephant.
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Ok. I will lyk when I get my power source. Do I need to strip wire off it?
Strippers are nice. Wont solve the input problem.
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Then youâve got to figure out an enclosure, and a heat sink for that SSR.
Here is Jack, my first rosin press (ok second). The enclosure was sourced from Home Despot.
The heat sink is an iMac bracket purchased for $5 at the recycling center. pretty sure the red (hdpe cutting board) came from St Vinnies, and the jack stand was a harbor freight special the boss had lying around. cut and drilled a scrap of Alu plate, and added PIDs/thermocouples/cartidge heaters for about $150.
The later pictures are actually a different build, The Cauldron of Doom, which was a commercial soup pot I installed a salvaged 2kw heating element in (up from 750w?)
90% sure those SSR were salvaged too.
The soup pot fit my 10â MK III collection vessel like a glove, and I was going to use the pairing as a ethanol recovery still, but something bigger presented itselfâŚ
It was named such because it looked terrifying with a CLS in an overclocked witches potâŚ
Edit: ran into this on Craigslist today:
this was the starting pointâŚ
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I guess @CapitalismSucks420âs build doesnât require an enclosureâŚ
I was certainly impressed with @SkyHighLerâs box-less build documented here: Distillation controllers with both temperature and power control
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I was considering that actually yes. I might after the initial setup. My first goal is to get this thing working and connected to heat pads which I need that power source for.