Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Sasquatch on April 15, 2015, 01:48:39 pm
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Has anybody ever tweaked their turkey roaster to get higher temps?
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Sounds interesting though. Hmm
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I had one go haywire & would shoot up to 750 degrees on the 200 setting. I blew up 3 loads before I figured out what was happening.
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That incident is what started the idea.
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I didn't tweak mine, but it originally had max dial temp of 500. With the tray out the corners get well above 600 if you want them too though.
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I wonder if you could just hook the heating coil to a light dimmer switch (dial type) then adjust the temp by the amount of volts running through it?
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I would think so. The dial is just a simple potentiometer. When mine went haywire it smelled like it was too hot. Maybe they are not designed for that high a temp.
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my first guess would be to reposition the thermostat/thermocouple probe to a slightly cooler area of the roaster.
if it's an electrical thermostat, perhaps take a reading with an ohm meter at a range of temps (low/med/high).
then do some math so that the correct resistor can be added to 'limit' the true temperature reading by the desired percentage.
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Great thoughts everybody,
I was only hoping to get another 100'degrees out of it. 575-600 max.