On recommendations from some of the excellent members of these forums, I bought an STC-1000 to control the temperature of my new wine fridge fermenting chamber, which doesn't offer the kind of control I want for fermenting. Unfortunately, I didn't realize in advance that the STC-1000 is something of a DIY device; I was expecting a little grey box with a temperature probe, a power supply, and two outlets for the heating and cooling elements, when in actuality I got a little box with a temperature probe, a wiring diagram, and a bunch of holes for connecting wires. The last electronics project I did was powering a light bulb with a lemon twenty years ago, so I'm a bit out of my element here.
I'm in China and bought the 220v version, if that makes a difference. My completely off-the-top-of-my-head line of thinking is that I find an unused power cord and wire its two leads in to the power supply side of the STC-1000, and then buy a couple solo female plugs and wire them into the heating/cooling outlets of the STC-1000. Am I on the right track?
I've done a couple forum searches and come across some wiring diagrams that don't make a lot of sense to my untrained mind, and then I'm also a bit wary about the idea of hardwiring into a wall outlet because A) I don't know what I'm doing and B) no, A)'s pretty much enough on its own.
I'm in China and bought the 220v version, if that makes a difference. My completely off-the-top-of-my-head line of thinking is that I find an unused power cord and wire its two leads in to the power supply side of the STC-1000, and then buy a couple solo female plugs and wire them into the heating/cooling outlets of the STC-1000. Am I on the right track?
I've done a couple forum searches and come across some wiring diagrams that don't make a lot of sense to my untrained mind, and then I'm also a bit wary about the idea of hardwiring into a wall outlet because A) I don't know what I'm doing and B) no, A)'s pretty much enough on its own.