Re: Electric stove controller for boiler control?

"catfish" <fishallnight@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all, I have a couple of items that use 1500 watt elements and need
to be able to adjust the temperature on them. Both are wired where they
are either full on or full off, no in between. One is a meat smoker and
the other a boiler with a submerged element. I have been trying to use
a surface burner controller off an old GE electric cooktop. The
problem is that it is just full on or full off with no between. The
switch is of course 220v and I am running it 110v. Is there some way to
hook this up so I can get it to adjust the temperature? The switch has
L1 and L2 for the inputs and H1 and H2 for the outputs to the burner.
I simply wired it into an extension cord so I can move it from the
smoker to the boil pot. Any suggestions??


I'd have to research this a little more as I'm only a dabbler in electrical
engineering, but I recently needed to dim a halogen lamp. Until I found an
off the shelf solution, it was looking like a triac circuit was going to be
the answer, which I believe would work for your purpose as well. Try
searching for info on triac dimmer circuits. I'm sure some of the other
engineers around and about here can recommend simple circuits to do the job.

Good luck.


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