Hello guys I have a questions and idk if you guys could help me. I could not find help on it. I have a kiln that looks like this in my classroom and it only plugs in and has a knob going low medium high and numbers. How does it work? How do I adjust to for cones? Thanks
Caveat: I have no idea what I’m taking about.
But I googled around and found this thread with this advice.
https://warmglass.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=41609
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That’s an old Paragon. You might contact Paragon for information. You may have to use the physical cones to run it. If it’s not a cone-sitter, then you’ll just have to turn it off when the cones droop correctly.
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Somewhere on the box with the dial should be a stamped metal label. It will have the model number that you can plug into google and should be able to find all the information you want.
That isn’t even a cone sitter. That is the fully manual version where you watch the cones on a shelf, and predict how much more they will droop after you cut power.
Maybe being fully manual, it might not be aimed at ceramics or glass. But not sure what the target market is for a manual only control.
I thought I posted this somewhere, but here is what I compiled in wondering about this:
A pretty nice writeup on how dial-controlled kilns operate/how to use. In short, they’re manual, so you’re responsible for turning the dial to move through the stages of firing. They recommend a pyrometer for monitoring, which seems like a good idea, and witness cones for further validation are also probably a good idea. This paragon manual includes a guide for firing, stages, using witness cones, etc. https://corp.paragonweb.com/wp-content/uploads/IM104-Paragon-Ceramic-Kilns-April20181.pdf I think the 2 articles together give a decent picture of “the idea”.
Also, just discovered this is called a Paragon Stepless Control (Knob), at least by this seller.
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Discord – you posted on Discord. I got a tad confused too, because I knew I’d read it, and it wasn’t here.
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