A High temperature Blackbody - Frasers search and full teardown

[SeanB]

No chance of finding a 230VAC heater element, as the controller and SSR will work with 230VAC, so you will probably have to find a 600VA autotransformer to place in the controller case to keep the 115VAC one.

[Fraser]

SeanB,

Ah, but that is not a problem for me.......

A very nice chap gifted me a couple of professional Mikron Blackbodies recently. They are wonderful bits of kit with 19" rack mount controllers and separate Blackbody heads...... they are 115V though. I purchased a really nice 2KW 240V-110V step down transformer. It uses a torroidal transformer and is really compact I can power all three of the Blackbodies from that one transformer The transformer cost me just £44.

Fraser

[Fraser]

All of the required parts to return my 1000C blackbody to service have now arrived 

I will be fitting a new power switch, fuseholders and a mini Thermocouple socket to the controller and a new thermocouple and standard thermocouple socket in the head unit.

Note the size of the standard (non-mini) thermocouple connectors ! They are big beasts but the hole in the head unit is sized to take that type of connector as I have already said.

Fraser