Thread: Anyone building their own kilns?
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Old May 10th 07, 09:38 AM posted to rec.crafts.glass,rec.crafts.pottery
Rob Morley
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Default Anyone building their own kilns?
In article , nJb
says...
m wrote:

nJB, what you really mean is that a computer is incomplete. It's
perfectly suitable for controlling temperature change over time. You
just need the ancillary hardware you mention and some software. Which
is exactly what you get when you buy an off the shelf kiln computer.

No, that's not at all what I mean. A controller is much more reliable
than a computer. Ever had your computer freeze up? Imagine that when you
have a 300lb bar top annealing. You can get a program to have your
computer give the program to the controller and then just monitor the
results. If the computer freezes, the controller still does it's job.

If the computer freezes you're running Microsoft Windows[1] - stop it.
:-)


[1] or the computer's too close to the kiln - move it somewhere cool.
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