Heat Controller and Test Build Progress

Planned a heat controller for a heating pad I ordered on alibaba – 2 kw 120 VAC – I used 10 ga wire out of an abundance of caution – really 12 ga would’ve been fine I think..

In-progress – not as neat as I’d like – in hindsight, I would avoid putting any of the electronics on the removable face of the junction box – the long wires turned into a bit of a rats nest.

Tested it out on a lamp – works! just need to run a circuit to the panel for it with a 20A breaker and should be good to go

Started gluing edges on – learned the hard way that double sided tape isn’t the way to go for this because the superglue failed when I tried to pry the base free – ended up coming up with a quick clamping jig after redoing side 1

Heat pad and aluminum sheet came in!