HEATING ARCHIVE

PULSE WAVE MODULATION AS A HEAT CONTROLLER

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Most of you familiar with that at least can run any word from 300 to 400 bucks. We discuss how to put these together for probably about 6070 bucks yourself. It controls your heating element and feedback mechanisms a thermocouple. So it's just like the cruise control in your car, you set it and your engine knows what the transmission it knows kind of how fast to go, and it levels out and stays. Now that's what a pod controller does. Theoretically, it's a little bit better than that. If you remove the feedback mechanism, which is the thermocouple because...

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HOW MY PMW IS WIRED

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We are glad you are here again. Enjoy reading! Now we're talking about the pulse wave modulator. Remember when we did this on the other discussion if you read that the pulse wave modulator, what that does, we're using that as a heat control source for our still our brewing container is killed or any other kind of device that you're using, where you're going to use heat and light so what I've got, what happens is, and I've described this before that sine wave, they're going 60 cycles a second, 120 volts hundred. The duty cycle is between two...

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TESTING THE PULSE WAVE MODULAR AS A HEAT CONTROLLER

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Now we're going to discuss the pulse wave modulator. Remember we discussed that sine wave and then the duty cycle in time now I want to get too technical because you don't really need to, talked about the infinite switch on the stove and turn the switch on by metal connector, starts to heat up. When it gets to a certain temperature, it deforms and causes the contacts to disconnect. So you got it on low. Your heater element on your stove gets like six to eight seconds worth of 240 volts. It shuts off until that by metal connector...

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ASSEMBLY AND TESTING THE PULSE WIDTH MODULAR

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Today we're going to produce a discussion for you. It's a tutorial on how to assemble and operate your PW in your pulse width modulator. This is like the P ID without a feedback mechanism. Remember the P ID has a thermocouple that you connect to it and it goes to the top of your column or in whatever process you're trying to track. And you set the temperature and it has that feedback mechanism. So it thinks and, it does all the adjustment for unit maintains.  What's different about this is the feedback mechanism is right here. That's the...

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PARTS LIST AND DESCRIPTION FOR PID CONTROLLER PART 1

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We talk about today’s controllers, selecting the proper element for your, whatever your process may be. Whether you're doing a brew kettle, steel, a Bakelite oven, plastic infusion, we all know that most of those processes, precise temperature control are very important. We have precise control. And the one that I work with most often, there's two actually, there's the P ID, the proportional integral derivative controller. I liken that to cruise control in your car or your truck. It really a fantastic piece of equipment.  I'm going to put it together. It's going to take me a couple of...

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