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  • dchris01
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    April 19, 2012 at 1:12 am
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    #3550

    Can anyone guide me in the right direction on wiring up my IR 250w plate to osPID and a Fotek SSR and to main power I am a noob at this kind of stuff here is how far I have got to http://img23.imageshack.us/i/imageqdjr.jpg/

    meurig
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    April 19, 2012 at 8:51 am
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    #3839

    I’m sure someone will step in with a ospid specific answer, but it looks from your picture that you have that side of things covered.

    When wiring the hotplate the SSR acts like a switch, so you’d wire up the hot plate to the mains as normal, but with the SSR on either the live or neutral wires.

    Ignoring the controller side of things, these pictures should give you an idea:
    http://www.altec.cc/images_eng/AL808/AL808_SSR_EN.gif
    http://www.delabs-circuits.com/cirdir/theory/control/ac-ssr.png

    Brett
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    April 20, 2012 at 11:44 am
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    #3840

    but with the SSR on either the live or neutral wires.

    it’s safer to put the SSR on the live wire. this way the flow of electricity is interrupted BEFORE it goes out into the hot plate. if you have it on the neutral wire, the hot plate has the ability to shock/short-circuit even when the SSR is off.

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