Making some stir plates :)

[Lufah]

I've made a couple of stir plates in the last week. A single and a double. I'm pretty happy with how they work. They will probably mainly get used to mix dyes for the wife's biz, but I'll be making at last a couple more for me.

Some pics of the single plate...



A video of the double plate....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaEBwr3Do9Y

The next project is going to be a 6 stir plate in one box powered by a old computer power supply.


Travis

[Monster Mash]

The next project is going to be a 6 stir plate in one box powered by a old computer power supply.


Travis

The problem I have found when multiple plates is each time you turn another plate it draws power from the others. It starts to become a balancing act to get them to run properly.

[Bob G]

Nice job Travis. What size pot/rheo did you end up using?

[Lufah]

Sorry it took me so long to respond. Don't know how I missed answering my own thread

25ohm 3watt rheostat. That was what Eric Beer's article said to use and I don't know enough about this stuff to start changing things.


Travis