Hello,
I am very amateur when it comes to electronics and am looking for a recommendation of electronic equipment that would best fit what I'm making as I'm having a very hard time figuring it out myself. I'm planning to make a thermal mass heater with PTC heating elements that run off 12v DC energy and each element has a positive and negative wire. Anyways I am planning to put a few of these in the walls of basically a cement 5 gallon bucket filled with sand with the wires sticking out from the cement walls to connect them to a power source hopefully individually. I am unsure of how to connect them to a power source. As of now my experience has been twisting the metal of the cables together and wishing I knew of a better way. I am hoping to have something connected to the cables of the PTC element, that connects/disconnects easily to some type of junction that then connects to the power source(kind of like a power outlet strip). My experience of a breadboard with an arduino makes me wish of a breadbox type contraption that would accept a proper connection to the elements but unlike the breadbox I would like something better than just sticking the bare wire into it. I want to be able to connect/disconnect the elements intermittently to control the heat of the contraption as well as the energy usage I'm hoping to be able to connect 10 or more of the elements if I wanted to. If it helps the elements start at 50 watts then level out to 10 watts as they level out to a certain heat. And to be even more specific about the application, the elements will be connected to a 5.5x2.5mm male plug that goes into my "solar generator" that can be powered by solar as well as standard 110 outlets.
Thank you for your time!
This is the PTC element: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VBDT8NL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This is the wire I'm currently using:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07584SQX5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I am very amateur when it comes to electronics and am looking for a recommendation of electronic equipment that would best fit what I'm making as I'm having a very hard time figuring it out myself. I'm planning to make a thermal mass heater with PTC heating elements that run off 12v DC energy and each element has a positive and negative wire. Anyways I am planning to put a few of these in the walls of basically a cement 5 gallon bucket filled with sand with the wires sticking out from the cement walls to connect them to a power source hopefully individually. I am unsure of how to connect them to a power source. As of now my experience has been twisting the metal of the cables together and wishing I knew of a better way. I am hoping to have something connected to the cables of the PTC element, that connects/disconnects easily to some type of junction that then connects to the power source(kind of like a power outlet strip). My experience of a breadboard with an arduino makes me wish of a breadbox type contraption that would accept a proper connection to the elements but unlike the breadbox I would like something better than just sticking the bare wire into it. I want to be able to connect/disconnect the elements intermittently to control the heat of the contraption as well as the energy usage I'm hoping to be able to connect 10 or more of the elements if I wanted to. If it helps the elements start at 50 watts then level out to 10 watts as they level out to a certain heat. And to be even more specific about the application, the elements will be connected to a 5.5x2.5mm male plug that goes into my "solar generator" that can be powered by solar as well as standard 110 outlets.
Thank you for your time!
This is the PTC element: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VBDT8NL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This is the wire I'm currently using:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07584SQX5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1