canonicalman
New Member
Many of you probably have technical interests besides electronics. In my case, I have been doing a significant amount of metal work lately, including producing castings from aluminum. To melt aluminum requires a melting furnace, and, as these are fairly expensive, I built my own. The basic furnace is uncontrolled other than watching the interior heat up, and trying to estimate the temperature by the color. When I built my furnace I was disappointed by the lack of a proper controller to carefully adjust the temperature. I checked into buying a controller but found the price prohibitive, so I decided to design and build one myself. For you that may also have an interest and knowledge of metal casting, or have some other reason to control significant AC power, I have posted the design on a web site so you too can build a controller.
http://www.geocities.com/dwviel/FurnaceController.html
Enjoy!
http://www.geocities.com/dwviel/FurnaceController.html
Enjoy!