Help with a stir plate

[bluebarnaclebrewing]

I have a 4 fan controller (was hoping to break up and share with brew buddy) and a 12V fan and old 12v power cord.

How does this go together? Can I use the connectors or am I going o have to do a little more work.

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[SteBy]

A bit more work... It appears you have a common power feed (Black/Yellow) so you'd have to get power out to each of the potentiometers.

You can trace where the power is going into from the black and yellow line, cut the board into 4 zones with a dremel or other method and then attempt to solder wires directly to the potentiometer. Here is a good video to watch: [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_FjGWFbS0[/ame]

 

[bluebarnaclebrewing]

A bit more work... It appears you have a common power feed (Black/Yellow) so you'd have to get power out to each of the potentiometers.

You can trace where the power is going into from the black and yellow line, cut the board into 4 zones with a dremel or other method and then attempt to solder wires directly to the potentiometer. Here is a good video to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_FjGWFbS0

If I decided to scrap the idea of sharing the controllers can I move the black/yellow power feed directly into one of the individual potentiometer? and then just mount the whole thing in my stir plate and have 3 'back-ups' if the first one fails?

 

[bluebarnaclebrewing]

Just bumping this up in case anyone is able to help... can I use what I have to make one stir plate and just forget about breaking it up. I'm getting a little desperate with little time to devote to it.

 

[day_trippr]

You could strip out one of the pots and one of the active 3-terminal components and duplicate the wiring between them, the voltage source and the load connection...

Cheers!