Guys, Need your help. According to the diagram on their website for the DSPR1 Ezboil controller it shows power going to pins 9 and 10 and branching to the SSR. I am wiring this for 240 volts. Looking at the screws on the back of the unit they are too small for a regular yellow terminal connector for 10 guage wire. Anyone hooked up one of these units and if so what did you use? I have a 50 amp spa panel feeding this box and controller. I plan to use 10 guage SOOW cord from the spa panel to the controller and SSR and the same cord out to the 5500W heating element.
Help wiring a Auber EzBoil DSPR1
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When wiring a panel that has a number of devices requiring power it is good to have some sort of "power distribution buss". In control panels it is common to have a separate distribution buss for L1, L2, Neutral and Ground.
While you say you are only putting together a bare-bones system, a power buss gives you an easy way to expand it in the future if you add pumps, or other devices.
The buss can just be a terminal strip where you can connected other devices like your controller with any size of wire and terminal you choose.
As you mentioned, the EZ-boil has smallish terminals due to its minimal power requirements. You could use a 16 gauge wire to connect it to your main power distribution buss.
Trying to distribute power in a "daisy chain" fashion, the way you describe, can be done, but is much more difficult and you need to know how to do it in a way that doesn't unintentionally limit power to any given device. That's the advantage of using a power distribution bus.
A power distribution buss can also incorporate fuses or circuit breakers to protect individual loads.
As an alternative to a power buss, you also could just crimp a smaller gauge wire with a large gauge wire in a suitable crimp terminal to tap off a power lead for the EZ-boil.
While you say you are only putting together a bare-bones system, a power buss gives you an easy way to expand it in the future if you add pumps, or other devices.
The buss can just be a terminal strip where you can connected other devices like your controller with any size of wire and terminal you choose.
As you mentioned, the EZ-boil has smallish terminals due to its minimal power requirements. You could use a 16 gauge wire to connect it to your main power distribution buss.
Trying to distribute power in a "daisy chain" fashion, the way you describe, can be done, but is much more difficult and you need to know how to do it in a way that doesn't unintentionally limit power to any given device. That's the advantage of using a power distribution bus.
A power distribution buss can also incorporate fuses or circuit breakers to protect individual loads.
As an alternative to a power buss, you also could just crimp a smaller gauge wire with a large gauge wire in a suitable crimp terminal to tap off a power lead for the EZ-boil.
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Hee....
Hard to imagine needing anything larger than 12 gauge INSIDE the control box. ...and as PH advised, 16 (or even 18) gauge would be fine for powering the EZ-Boil device itself.
Hard to imagine needing anything larger than 12 gauge INSIDE the control box. ...and as PH advised, 16 (or even 18) gauge would be fine for powering the EZ-Boil device itself.
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