WIRING A PWM (PULSE WIDTH MODULATOR) TO CONTROL HEAT

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PULS WIDTH MODULATORS:

[robertarmstrong]

I successfully built this from your video. Wow! Saved a ton of money on buying one and it was a lot of fun to build. I did add a lighted rocker power switch to the side. Thank you very much. Hope to see you back on Youtube again, if even only once in a while. Blessings to you and your family George.

[LPD]

Thanks George for your teaching. I built a dial PWM by following your lead on a previous video. I found another use for it the other day on my crock pot. It really worked great. Much better than low, high and off. LOL

[leperousbeing]

Truly a great series you're running here. Took me a lot of hours of head scratching and how the ****ing to figure out all you're laying out these past few videos. Wish you were doing this years ago when I was going through this same stuff and there was nobody breaking down and explaining this for our hobby. Well done!

[KYLE-jmtr]

Thank you so much for taking the time to educate us on home distilling. I love your videos. Thank you for showing me the ropes. Look forward to a new video or a farewell sign off

[melmarshall]

Hello George.
I hope you are looking after those ribs of yours.
I live in the UK and just wanted to clarify our wiring to some of your folks.
Most electronic device inputs will be marked with a “+” and “-” and perhaps an Earth.
For us, if these are connected the wrong way round then there is a chance that the electronic device may be permanently damaged.
Take care and keep up with your great work George.
Best wishes from over the pond.

[coreyblackburn]

It's nice to see you rolling out new videos back to back!.

[rh]

Commenting because I’m a big fan of your channel! Also, boosting the YouTube algorithm to promote your videos

[hines]

I have bin looking at my pwm for a week now thanks I'll get it wired this week.

[joshuaclement]

I love seeing these simple power management projects

[widgets]

Much appreciated George! Have just had this exact model delivered this week so perfect timing!

[Prem_hall_]

I love to see passionate people still putting out incredible content! Great job sir

[robertserumgard]

I built one exactly like this at 240 volts in an old computer power supply case with a fan, I used an Iphone charger to power the fan, works perfectly. The fan runs a little slow at 5 volts but it is enough.

[draw]

I just watchhed your vidieo. I built a pwm with a little twist I split the recieptical and added a second off & on switch to to control my water pump. I did not want to con trol the speed of the pump. I put a ball valve in to do that. Thank you very much for your insperation.

[smartypants]

That's the cats whiskers all right. Puts the brewer in the drivers seat. Know your amps may be a Flossie but to know how hard you have the throttle down, priceless.

[robertschroeder]

Hi George, great video series. So looking forward to building my own project. I would very much like to include multiple digital temperature panels on the same box. Would be nice to see the changes of temperature on the still during the distillation phases. Great job and very grateful for the educational instruction.

[andydavis]

Hey George nice video I made the 220 volt pid version for my 5500watt element can you make a video of how to wire 1 of these for 220 volts please?

[chrischris]

Thank you George. Any downside to the PWM with SCR vs. the Pot with SSR-40VA? Is one clearly better? Put off less heat? Any pros/cons to control heating elements and a pump motor?

[silly]

George, inside of the control box do you think a small fan such as a PC power supply fan would be necessary? If so how would you go abouts wiring it in within the system?

[nidaltouma]

Hi George, thank you for the educational video. May I ask a small question: I got a 10000W PWM, and I connected it to a boiler, with a digital volt-amp-meter on the output side to know the current and voltage going to the load. it worked but the meter got broken. could it be that some digital volt-amp meters cannot function with a quadrant wave ? I guess the PWM has a quadrant wave on the output, right ? I was sure of the connection of the meter because I tested it with another circuit and it worked fine... it is just the output of the PWM circuit that smoked it up. Thanks

[slelliott]

It’s funny the seller says it won’t work with 120V. Guess you proved that wrong but unfortunately the digital is out of stock and says unknown on its return. I always wondered if they will work on 120v, now I know and will grab one asap