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Hugh_Jass · 03-21-2011, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Reelale

Seriously, I wonder if most of these failures are the result of amp draw on 220 vac elements? Or is it equal opportunity? I only use a 110 vac 1500W in a RIMS tube. I'm scared now. I have the alarm working to de-activate the signal on overshoots, but that doesn't do any good when the SSR is not answering the phone.

I had one fail on an electric smoker I built. It uses 110v@1500W. I walked away for an hour. When I returned, the heat sink had melted through my control box :shock:

Felt fortunate there was not more damage.

Had to finish the pork in the oven.

**Walker** · 03-21-2011, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Hugh_Jass

I had one fail on an electric smoker I built. It uses 110v@1500W. I walked away for an hour. When I returned, the heat sink had melted through my control box :shock:

Felt fortunate there was not more damage.

Had to finish the pork in the oven.

That sucks.

I forgot to mention that I also hat a little collateral damage. A little indicator lamp that I was attached to the output of the SSR was fried at some point. I've got a replacement in a box somewhere, but the light never worked as intended due to the leakage current that the SSR let through, so I am in no rush to put the other one in.

NiteOwlBrewing · 11-24-2012, 05:25 AM

Methinks I have a faulty/defective SSR. The very first autotune I had on my HLT it WAY over shot and was heating even though the output LED on the PID AND the SSR test LED were not lit. It seems to happen every first heating cycle. Then, I turn off my contactor (which resides in my system prior to the SSR) and back on and it behaves ok. I've since updated the input to the SSR (and switched its duty from HLT to kettle) with a wall wart and the same thing happens. I turn off the signal input and it stays closed. Guess its time to drop another $12. Has anyone else seen this?

**86turbodsl** · 11-26-2012, 05:01 PM

I have Crydom SSR's driving my home's lighting system and I can state without question that SSRs can fail closed. My symptoms were lights that won't shut off. Replace the SSR, and problem fixed. I had this happen when the output was shorted to ground. Always remove power first when working on SSR's.