My Sous Vide Controller Box as seen on Seattle Food Geek Thanks Scott! Click Here for Parts List Click Here for Pump Assembly Click Here for Controller Wiring Diagram Here it is! Overview of all the parts. JLD612 PID Temperature Control box. 10amp lighted power switch from Radio Shack. Two power outlets. One for power on all the time ( Left Side) and the other one ( Right Side) power on controlled by the PID and fed through the SSR terminal 2. I flip flopped the outlets so I could connect the DC power supply in the back left socket and still have access to the other 3 plugs. Back side connections on the controller box. A/ C in with 10amp breaker and the 3 pin connector for the PT100 Thermocouple. Inside the controller box. SSR mounted on a heatsink. This wasn't in the original design, but after reading other postings and after reading the manufactures web site, it states that a heatsink is REQUIRED to avoid damage. OK now for the tech info. When I turned my unit on, I left the lid on for an hour. I took the lid off and felt the heatsink, and ouch it was very hot to the touch and you could not keep your finger on it. I used a meat thermometer with a tip sensor and it read 152º F. After leaving the lid off and blowing on it the temp went down to 140º F. Once the unit reached the set temp, then it cooled down to 126º F and stayed there the rest of the time the unit was keeping temp. I am going to install a mini 70mm 12 V DC computer fan to the right side of the heatsink and wrap an aluminum baffle around the bottom and left side and cut slits in the top side to vent the air out the back of the unit. I found a 120 V A/ C to 12 V DC converter that is really small and on a PC board that I can mount and run off the Always Hot plug in the box to power the fan. The two electrical outlets, one for Power all the time on the right, and the one on the left is supplied by the SSR A/ C.
Video shot on a point-n-shoot, sorry about quality. I demonstrate how holding the SET button for 5s on either a JLD612 or N2006 P (or the various other names.
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