cswank
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Hello all,
I am working on an electric boiler setup in my basement, and have a question about the wiring. I have a set of 4 6 inch electric stove burners that I have mounted on my frame. The boiler fits nicely on all four, giving me a total of 6000W. It it probably not the most efficient thing to do, but I wanted to try something different.
So I am pondering how to control them. The total current for all 4 burners is 25 amps (240 V system). Would it be a bonehead idea to wire all four burners together in series, then control both hot leads with a separate SSR? I'm not sure if they were designed to handle 4 times the current that would be running through them. Otherwise I'd either have to split them up into two or four circuits, which starts piling up SSR costs in a hurry.
Thanks,
Craig
I am working on an electric boiler setup in my basement, and have a question about the wiring. I have a set of 4 6 inch electric stove burners that I have mounted on my frame. The boiler fits nicely on all four, giving me a total of 6000W. It it probably not the most efficient thing to do, but I wanted to try something different.
So I am pondering how to control them. The total current for all 4 burners is 25 amps (240 V system). Would it be a bonehead idea to wire all four burners together in series, then control both hot leads with a separate SSR? I'm not sure if they were designed to handle 4 times the current that would be running through them. Otherwise I'd either have to split them up into two or four circuits, which starts piling up SSR costs in a hurry.
Thanks,
Craig