Can anyone help me with the amount of milliamps that the smoke heater draws on a ps2 or ps3 bob
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Well, it's pretty hard to measure being a PWM power drive. Also, it varies based on the smoke volume settings and the currently operational status.
Perhaps you can tell us what you're trying to accomplish and that might help us help you?
Thank you for your interest I have a dummy unit that I wanted number boards lit. along with smoke.. I was able to finish my project today working well. I found a buck converter on amazon this was able to convert 12-17 ac volts to 3-5 volts dc that I needed for the smoke generator. I also needed the milliamp draw of the smoke generator, my multimeter only went to 200 milliamps. When I got a meter to test I found that the smoke mac. had about 460 draw. This was important because of my control circuit, I was able to use IR remote switch from Evans designs ,it was rated for 600 milliamp otherwise I would need to install a relay and a bridge rectifier. I also installed a 3 volt red flashing light on the unit to indicate smoke mac. being on or off. I had a scrap engine with a bad circuit board so it had lots of good parts to donate. Enjoying filling the house with smoke. Bob
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Great to see all those B&P engines all powered up and smoking ,Good job.
If you want to get really cool, you can trigger dummy smoke units from the main powered unit, just use my remote controls.
The transmitter sits in the powered unit and monitors the smoke unit...
A single channel relay receiver sits in each dummy unit and controls the dummy smoke unit power.
I'll take a look at this, sounds neat Any thing a person can imagine is possible!
