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Yep that is a distribution block, that is its sole purpose in life :)

Bought two 650SS faucets prior to finding this thread. Before installation, decided to go through with the passivation process. During the second bath (citric acid) I experienced an AWFUL sulphur smell. Here's to hoping that my passivation went correctly. For reference: Both faucets have 1115...

Popping in for one last note, his idea absolutely would work, it doesn't matter if the contacts on the controller are NO. He just needs to use a pilot relay with the coil voltage for the contactor going through the NC contacts of his pilot relay. I drew a mock up a few posts back and attached as...

Just out of curiosity - what is your idea of cheap?

Sorry. I will politely bow out of the discussion.

It's a good question - one that I don't really have an answer for. If someone twisted my arm and said I had to pin it down somewhere, I'd probably not want to manually switch more than about 500 watts. Less if the voltage gets higher. Again, this is only about my personal acceptable level of...

If the cartoon in the original post is a representation of the physical connections of the controller, then the alarm is just a set of contacts, in which case your interpretation of what I wrote is correct.

Well, for what it's worth I am an Electrical Engineer.

You have 5500 Watt lights in your house?

No worries, I will explain my reasoning. I have seen switches fail. I have seen contactors fail. Within their rated load, for their stated use. Because of this, I don't want my hand anywhere near the actual switching mechanism when I am turning on something that will be delivering or breaking...

Force of habit? Safety? To tell you the truth for me it has mostly to do with my personal acceptable level of risk. If I'm switching power, I want that switching to happen remotely inside of an enclosure. I have built large machines, and it is generally a no-no to switch devices under load...

Don't assume anything, the alarm output is merely a set of contacts that you would use in an external circuit to take some sort of action if the alarm condition you program in to the controller is reached. Generally speaking you could set up a circuit with a normally closed contact of a pilot...

My point was that this is not the correct application for that kind of switch, regardless if it is rated correctly or not (which I did not make very clear, btw) but thank you for pointing that out.

I stand corrected - the data sheet says something different than the website op linked. Thanks for pointing that out! I realize that his temperature controller uses a PID algorithm, just a pet peeve of mine to call it a "PID"... you see this all the time on the espresso machine forums they...

Ok. Folks - this is why you get someone who knows what they are doing to help you out on stuff like this. I joined this forum just to reply to this post. What this poor fellow has done is downright dangerous - and he is lucky to be alive. A couple of notes here to start off: The light...