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JohnCider
Hi there
Thanks for the ad on the forum!
Ive been able to do most things my demanding wife asks of me, but this project is doing my head in. We had made an in-bottle bath pasteuriser and fitted it with 2 X 3kw universal flat heating elements. Now, Ive installed temp sensors and adjusted the fuses etc, and filled the thing and it does work, but blimey its sooooo slow! The capacity of the tank is around 90Litres (this is for the liquid in the bottles and the water surrounding the bottles too). The bottles sit on a SS mesh shelf which houses the elements at either end of the tank. Its taking around 5 and a half hours to get the temp from around 16 degrees to 70, and this is going to be too slow.
Now today, Ive checked that both the elements have power to them, and also tried bypassing the electronics by taking power straight to the elements (to check I wasnt getting cancelling out and running just one element) and its the same.
So, as Her Indoors is getting a bit narky - what are my options?
Should I replace the elements with 4kw ones? What are other options?
We are on single phase. The pasteuriser is fully insulated.
Any ideas?
Thanks for the ad on the forum!
Ive been able to do most things my demanding wife asks of me, but this project is doing my head in. We had made an in-bottle bath pasteuriser and fitted it with 2 X 3kw universal flat heating elements. Now, Ive installed temp sensors and adjusted the fuses etc, and filled the thing and it does work, but blimey its sooooo slow! The capacity of the tank is around 90Litres (this is for the liquid in the bottles and the water surrounding the bottles too). The bottles sit on a SS mesh shelf which houses the elements at either end of the tank. Its taking around 5 and a half hours to get the temp from around 16 degrees to 70, and this is going to be too slow.
Now today, Ive checked that both the elements have power to them, and also tried bypassing the electronics by taking power straight to the elements (to check I wasnt getting cancelling out and running just one element) and its the same.
So, as Her Indoors is getting a bit narky - what are my options?
Should I replace the elements with 4kw ones? What are other options?
We are on single phase. The pasteuriser is fully insulated.
Any ideas?