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Old 2009-10-19, 4:59am
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Can it be done? I have an older pottery kiln, brick insulated, that operates with pyrometrick cones, that I want to remake into a new glass kiln. i was thinking just replacing the kiln sitter with a digital controller. Is this at all possible. Has anybody done this before, and have any input to share?
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A kiln is a kiln... Its brick box that gets hot....

Yes its entirely possible to disable the kiln sitter and cones assembly and add a digital controller..... A digital controller in its simplest form is basically a switch (complicated internally, but just a switch) controlled the a thermocouple... So by adding thermocouple to kiln interior (usually through a small hole in back) and connecting it to controller and then adding a relay circuit controlled by controller to turn power to elements off/on, you can have a "modern" kiln.....

Only negatives may be actual kiln design, if its a top loader or has some other unpopular features that make it difficult to use those may be harder to over come, or you may decide to just "live with it"...

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