Questions tagged [heater]
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Custom 240V Infrared Heater Controller
I'm DIY'ing a controller for a few heaters I'm placing on my covered deck, components listed below. I'm using an Arduino Uno Wifi Rev2 to control on/off and a dimmer to adjust the heater output.
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Solar excess power dump
I have a 24 V 5000 W 120 A Victron multiplus inverter charger to a Autotransformer 120/240 100A to make split phase on my daughter's off-grid house.
600 Ah lithium batteries (4x 12V @300 Ah), 5000 W ...
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How can I calculate the resistance of a complex PCB trace?
I want to design a flex PCB heater. In the design requirement, there is a value such as 7.5 ohms and 18 watts. When I calculate with copper, my PCB area is not sufficient for the desired resistance ...
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Why 2 thermostats of different rating in series in heater circuit?
I am trying to repair a small water distiller. The machine is fairly simple, heater boils water, the vapor is cooled by a fan and the water is collected.
More information: How to use
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12 V 20000 mAh Li-ion battery pack gets very hot
I'm trying to power a heated lunch box I got from Amazon (this one) via this - 12 V 20000 mAh Li-ion battery pack, which appears to be 6x 18650s.
When I plug it in, the battery heats up significantly, ...
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Triac Phase angle control Heating method
I purchased a soldering station (Product Link: Tenma 2064549. Just for give more idea. Not for taking about the product.) few years ago and replaced the heating element. After replacing heating ...
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Making a high-temp, battery-operated, heating/burning device
Crazily enough, this is not for recreational smoking use.
I am trying to create a small, battery powered device, that can hit temps around 250 to 350 degrees Celsius (482 to 662 degrees Fahrenheit), ...
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I have an old house. Is there a device I can use to increase wattage so I can use several 1500 watt heaters during winter? [closed]
I have an old house. If I use more than 1500 watts it blows the fuse.
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How can I make my nichrome wire heat up?
I can't seem to heat up some nichrome wire I got from a toaster. I don't really know what the gauge is, but the wire diameter is a little less than a millimeter, and it's flat.
I have 3 options of a ...
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Using LED driver to control heater
currently, I have a 24V 150W heater and I would like to see the feasibility of using LED driver for controlling the heater. My input voltage is 48VDC
The reason for this is that some LED drivers I ...
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How can I wire a MOSFET to put 1.5 A through a short length of nichrome wire using an 18650 battery and an Arduino?
I'm doing some antenna deployment work on a CubeSat testbed prototype for a school club. Here's a wiring diagram of what I'm doing:
I'm using two 18650 batteries to power an Arduino which ...
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Heater (resistor) combination to achieve specific power
I am designing a heating circuit composed of ceramic heating resistors.
I have a 24 V supply and I am limited to 3 A, which allows me to disipate total of 70W, which is my target.
I have a limited ...
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Constant temperature operation of microheater
I have been trying to make a constant temperature control for microheaters based on this wheatstone bridge circuit, using a trim pot to set the temperature setpoint. The purpose is to keep the heater ...
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Can I solder this cartridge heater to this thermocouple?
I'm trying to make a vaporizer pipe as a hobby project. The idea is that when you inhale from it, air passes by a cartridge heater and then goes through some "herbs". A thermocouple is used ...
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How to design a circuit for multiple 12 V loads using one battery?
How can I connect multiple 12 V loads to this 12 V, 2600 mAh Li-ion battery without damaging it?
12 VDC cartridge heater
12 VDC fan
12 VDC thermostat
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Indium Tin Oxide as heater element for bread toasting
Recently, the Blankety Blank game show featured as a prize a "transparent toaster". I was disappointed to see that the elements were conventional wire and could easily be seen through the ...
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Powering home thermostat using standard four-wire connection
I am starting a project to build a home thermostat for my air conditioner. I have the standard four-wire thermostat cable, with labels Rc / G / W / Y where one wire (Rc) carries a 24 VAC power source,...
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Calculate or estimate 3-phase 400V heat pump (inductive) load
My water heating system (CTC) consist of a air-to-water heat pump and a water tank with an immersion heater. It is all powered from the same electronics pack and hooked up to 400V (3-phase) with a 25A ...
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What would happen if I powered a 5 V heater with 6 V?
I have 2 mini heater pads (carbon fiber) for gloves that are rated at 5 V. In series they have 6 + 6 = 12 Ω resistance. I have a 6 V power supply (~6.25 V by my last measurements), and I'm planning to ...
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Can I connect a step up converter for higher voltage with nine 3000mAh cells in parallel, or is it dangerous and doesn't work like that?
I'm a college mechatronics engineer student who is working on a production project about making an electrical device (like a toaster, alarm clock etc.) My device is a simple nichrome wire heater and ...
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For how long would a 12V 8Ah C20 battery last by heating 100 resistive Kanthal (A1) 20awg 30 cm long wires to 130 ºC in half a second?
Well, I want to heat up 100 wires with 20cm of length each made of Kanthal (A1) with 20 awg gauge (0,8mm/0.03inch diameter and 0.817 ohms/in) to 130 ºC from room temperature of 30 ºC continuously. And ...
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Building a space heater
I'm building a space heater, not for continuous use, but just as an experiment.
I made a nichrome wire coil that's 3.5 Ω and a fan that blows on it so hot air comes out of the other side of the tube. ...
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Are heating foils resistors?
In my project I need to use some heating foils to warm a chamber up to a certain temperature. I would like to use polyimide or polyester heating foils.
If these heating foils act as resistors, can I ...
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Induction heater short circuit
I see a short circuit in a widely used induction heater diagram.
Why does this circuit work despite the short circuit?
This circuit is widely successfully tested on youtube and I want to make it too, ...
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Attempting to power a 120 V, 0.4 A cartridge heater with a 120 V, 10 A variac
I have a small AC cartridge heater that has a max. input of 120 V and 0.4 A. I would like give full power to this heater (~50 W).
I am trying to power the heater with a variable auto-transformer that ...
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I'm trying to vary the power sent to a heating element based on the heat in an enclosure
I'm building an enclosure for my 3d printer and I was considering using just a ceramic air heater and a fan to control the temperature in the enclosure. I have some misgivings about this however. For ...
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Simulate a thermistor to fake temperature readings in heater
What I want to do
Control an old heater to avoid running during hours where kWh is expensive. Bonus: Getting a more even inside temperature.
How I plan to achieve this
I know there is a product where ...
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Best grade of graphite powder for a conductive paste
I want to make a conductive paste using graphite powder mixed with a liquid binder.
The idea is to create heat through Joule heating when the (alternating) current is passed through the graphite, so I ...
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Heater controller circuit using MOSFET for PID control
I want to implement some PID control for a 48 W heater cartridge. I have a microcontroller which can only putout a PWM output at 3.3 V and 8.1 mA. I current am trying to use a IRLZ44N MOSFET. Is the ...
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How to build a heater circuit with a Raspbery Pico?
I am building a Raspberry Pico controlled heater.
The heater is just a nichrome wire with 4 Ω resistance and the power source is three 18650 Samsung batteries connected in series (~4 V, 20 A each). I ...
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Can a rheostat (as an alternative to a relay) act as the correction unit in a thermostatically controlled electric heater?
I was studying about the various elements present in a thermostatically controlled electric heater control system. While I agree that a relay can be used to correct the output temperature from a ...
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Inverter requirements for instantaneous water heater
I'm looking at installing a battery + inverter system for my apartment to keep things powered during frequent scheduled powered outages. I live in South Africa, where we have 2.5hrs "load ...
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AC coil heater vs DC coil heater - efficiency improvement
I am trying to improve the circuit of a coil heater which operates at 230VAC input. Total power to the coil is 2000W. There is a thermostat which measures the coil temperature and there is a relay ...
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3-phase motor winding heater using DC current
The motor in use is a 3-phase 440V/37kW induction motor.
I have received data regarding winding heaters from a motor manufacturer.
If the rated voltage is 440V, a single-phase voltage of 24Vac must be ...
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Nichrome strip and resistor
I'm trying to build a heater connected to 220 VAC, 50 Hz using a nichrome strip (2.3 Ω/m) and I'm going to use 1 meter or less (60 to 70 cm).
I know that this setup won't work at all with 220 VAC so ...
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Do resistive heating elements age due to the passage of current or due to the heat they are subjected to?
It is well known that resistive heating elements (such as lightbulb filaments, or furnace elements) have a finite lifetime.
If I heated (or heat-cool cycled) a resistive heating element to the exact ...
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How to reduce power drawn by a resistor heater?
I am rather new in this field.
On 220V AC industrial power supply, a 6 ohm resistor heater (nichrome wire, 0.40 ohm/m, 15 m) will draw about 8067 watt of power. About 2400 W are needed.
What are the ...
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What limits the heating power output of a resistor heater?
I'm a bit confused since people said those resistors would draw more power the lower its resistance is, and one way to reduce its resistance is reduce its length.
Will it draw more power the shorter ...
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What decides the amount of power being drawn by a heating element?
I'm trying to understand the basic concept of how such electronic equipment works.
For example, if I have 220V 10A power line, when I plug a heating element into it, will it take all available power?
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Electric stove place thermostat so far from heater [closed]
I buy electric stove and found that thermostat placement doesn’t make any sense.
The thermostat used seem like one in iron, in that case, the iron heater connected directly to thermostat via ceramic ...
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How to calculate length needed for heating element (2mm Nickeline/Nichrome wire) to a specified power?
to start off, i dont really understand about electrical engineering. im a mechanical engineering student tasked to continue the project. i dont really understand electrical stuff beside the very basic ...
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Why such "Sloppy" heating element control in a hot-tub
I've noticed that the heater/pump on my inflatable hot-tub has a very "sloppy" thermostat. If I set it to maintain at, say, 37 degrees (C), it heats to 39, then goes off, until 35, when it ...
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Why does testing with multimeter fix my circuit issues?
I am using this heater along with this thermocouple and this amplifier and am just trying to be able to set and hold a consistent temperature. I have the heaters connected to a transistor circuit and ...
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Small electrical water heater
When I was much younger than my current 64 years of age, I saw water heaters made using simply two single electrical 110 V wires and some form of a connection between the two, to simply stick in a cup ...
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Why are Fuses on space heaters necessary?
Why does a space heater (electric fan heater for home use) have a fuse?
Isn't the house itself connected via a circuit breaker? Wouldn't that stop potential safety issues?
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Are there water heating elements that literally explode when turned on dry?
When I grew up these things were pretty commonplace:
In case you've never seen one, it's a very primitive water heater that you simply place inside a pot of water (or a jar, or even a cup of tea-to-...
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Thyristor controlled 3-phase heater control, spiky current
Lets say you have 10 thyristor controlled heaters in a 3-phase system.
The control of these thyristors is sync'd, so the current draw is spiky (all of the heaters draw current from the same phase when ...
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Switch that resets when power is lost?
So I'm looking to install an aftermarket seat heater in my car (though this would be useful for many other automotive applications). The switch it comes with does not reset on power loss, so if you ...
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Using a PCB trace as a heater / Hilbert Curves
I'm considering making a PCB to use as a heater for a 3d printer bed. This has been common practice for ~10 years (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3919).
I was playing around with KiCad and python, ...
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Temperature is not increasing after some value (MAX6675) (PID)
I was following this circuit diagram shown above (from https://electronoobs.com/eng_arduino_tut24_sch2.php) to create a 12V heater for heating a hot end using PID.
The only thing I'm not using from ...
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