On 19 February 2011 01:27, cogoman <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an unusual application that might be great for EMC2. I have a > small block of aluminum that need to be heated to a specific > temperature.
When you only have a hammer every problem looks like a nail. I think that EMC2 is enormously over-the-top for this application. My toolbox contains two hammers, EMC2 and Arduino, and this looks like an Arduino application to me. However, have you considered: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-PID-SSR-TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLER-FURNACE-KILN-OVEN-/290534543975 Or similar? Incidentally, I have tried using halogen lamps as heaters for a heat-treatment furnace and we had problems with the electrical connectors at the ends. Also, they rather rely on the interaction between the halogen gas, the hot filament and the relatively cold glass to redeposit the evaporated filament from the glass back to where it belongs. You might find that running them at low voltage actually rather decreases lifespan. Devices such as http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=3762313 and http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=1966490 might be a less troublesome heat source. Have you considered building an induction heater? That looks like fun, and again an Arduino could handle the sequencing, signal generation and resonance tuning fairly easily. -- atp "Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
