Has anyone looked at modifying a popcorn maker to reduce the output temperature?
I pulled one apart and its got the main heating coil in a loop around a small straight coil (about 50mm in length). . . would I be right in guessing that the straight coil is heated by the big circular main heating coil and creates a certain amount of resistance at different temperatures and therefore controls the amount of cuttent that is fed into the main heating coil?
If this is the case would it be possible to add a bit of length to the straight coil causing more resistance and less heat? or maybe adding a POT in there somewhere so that we could adjust the amount of heat from the main coil.
This would allow longer roasting times in the humble popcorn maker.
Any thoughts???
cheers simon_02
I pulled one apart and its got the main heating coil in a loop around a small straight coil (about 50mm in length). . . would I be right in guessing that the straight coil is heated by the big circular main heating coil and creates a certain amount of resistance at different temperatures and therefore controls the amount of cuttent that is fed into the main heating coil?
If this is the case would it be possible to add a bit of length to the straight coil causing more resistance and less heat? or maybe adding a POT in there somewhere so that we could adjust the amount of heat from the main coil.
This would allow longer roasting times in the humble popcorn maker.
Any thoughts???
cheers simon_02

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