Help a Newbe with electric heat

[Expat]

Glad it's all working for you!

22.5a is what I normally see also btw.

[decoy]

So, I hooked up the heating element today. The scariest part was putting a hole in the side of my shiny new still! it all went to plan though and this thing works awesome. The ammeter works as its supposed to and makes it so easy to fine tune the temperature. The ammeter only came up to 22.5 amps, but it is way more heat than I need anyway. Thanks everyone again who contributed to this thread

I do not have that controller, the drawing I made up was drawn more so of how I would wire those components together.
did it reflect correctly how the controller you received was intended to be wired up?

If so maybe it can be added somewhere for others reference in the future.

[FLOB]

So, I hooked up the heating element today. The scariest part was putting a hole in the side of my shiny new still! it all went to plan though and this thing works awesome. The ammeter works as its supposed to and makes it so easy to fine tune the temperature. The ammeter only came up to 22.5 amps, but it is way more heat than I need anyway. Thanks everyone again who contributed to this thread

I do not have that controller, the drawing I made up was drawn more so of how I would wire those components together.
did it reflect correctly how the controller you received was intended to be wired up?

If so maybe it can be added somewhere for others reference in the future.

With the exception of the meter, your drawing is very similar to the one in the Still Dragon directions.

I am also not the most electrically inclined so your addition of the meter is very informative to me.[img]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201906 ... 414fee.jpg[/img]

[decoy]

You can also add this unit to your panel in place of the amp meter, unless you like the old school moving coil meter
you can search ebay for "Digital LCD AC 100A Volt Amp Watt Power Monitor Ammeter Voltmeter 80-260VAC"
It will set you back aprox $11 US
Displays AC Voltage with Line Frequency.
Current and Watt Value
accumulated Watt Hours
you hit the button on the right to enter menu and select clear values to see the total power used for that run.
to wire it up, you connect active and neutral tot he unit to power it and slip the Active wire going to the element through the black round inductive sensor, that's it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-LCD-AC ... 0005.m1851

[Kezza]

Yes, decoy, your diagram is the same way mine is wired and it all works perfectly

Paddys picture shows a small white box, it apears to be a 12v LED power supply, I do not see what he is using this for, he appears to be feeding it into the potentiometer and then into the SSR??

Paddy is running a small fan in his box, thats what the white 12v box is for.

These things must throw some heat! The heat sink that came with it from Auber is huge!

The heatsink I got in the kit from stilldragon is smaller than that. I drilled some holes in the side of my box with a holeasw. I did not feel much heat coming from inside the box when I tested the run with water yesterday. I bought a small personal fan from Walmart for $10 for just in case though