First off your 1 inch bushing won't seal it completely without a whack of plumbing tape (the white stuff). Wherever they sell water heaters they usualy also have conversion flnges for those who have a square element and want to install a round screw in type, which is what I did, twice, once for the processor and then I had the second flange welded into the side of my pre-heat tank, and both are 110V. There are two screws on each element and you simply attach one wire to one screw and the other wire to the other. The flange package come with a rubber grommet tha fits well over the whole electrical thing and protects it from electrical shorts. A note of caution however, if you have a square element in your water heater and want to convert it, like I did. Once you make the conversion the cover will no longer fit over the whole thing without touching the electrical contacts so what I did was to thouroughly insulate the INSIDE of the cover with pink insulation and duct taped it down so it wouldn't move and then I only tightened the one screw on the outside of the cover before insulating the whole processor yet further with pink and then followed that with a thermal balnket that they use for heating ducts. It seems to work well.
L. --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, "josephputzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've just begun to build a processor out of two 55 gallon drums. I > am having a 1" bushing welded to the drum so that I can put a screw- > in heating element into the processor. I wanted the bushing so that > I can take out the element for cleaning and whatnot. My trouble is > that I'm not much for electrical components. I have a 4.5 kw 240 v > element. How do I safely attach a power cord with the given wattage > and voltage? Is 4.5 kw to high? Should I find a 1.5 or 2.0 kw element > instead? > > Any help would be great! ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
