Any recommendations on a laboratory heater / stirrer with temp feedback probe? I bought a cheap Chinese ebay one last year and the device itself caught fire. It had firmware issues that I had observed while I was playing around with it. I’m a bit paranoid about an unattended heating unit since then.
Yes, I’ve seen that one! Looks almost too good to be true. Worried about fire hazard still with a cheap one although I usually am ok taking chances with cheap equipment if it’s rarely used. Here are some photos of the burned up one I bought and my house full of smoke. Good thing I had it on the washing machine - metal surface. I was in the other part of the house and noted the lights flicker and heard a pop and that was the power cord melting and tripping the breaker but the thing was already on fire with bright yellow flames and acrid burning plastic fumes. And I was just testing it with about a cup of water set to about 150 degrees.
IMHO the one on ebay looks like the usual china/soviet tech kind of stuff so if one goes with that option they should take it into Electronics and test all the components.
