Mods for SSR output

Here's a shot of the little temp controller guts. The ebay auction description was way off. First off, its 220vac, which caused a slight bump, I had to make a temporary plug just to test the unit. Second,  it is not  directly connectable to the solid state relay. The controller is basically a switch, which would require another power supply to activate the solid state relay (SSR).   After a bit of testing and investigation,  it was determined that since the SSR requires a 12vdc signal and the internal relay on the controller needs 12vdc to activate, I simply wired the controller to put out the relay voltage directly to the output terminals. Whalla. SSR ready. I had to cut one of the traces on the controller board. See pics.

I tested it in full heater/measure mode and it worked fine. Neat little controller anyways, especially for a whopping 18 bucks. I see that there a lot of guys playing around with this controller, probably because it's super cheap. There is a way to get into the internal settings and change a few settings if you so desire. My little test tonite having it control a pipe heater worked well. Hardly overshot at all, and kept a nice constant temp on the item being heated.

Add these 2 jumpers to put 12VDC out on the temp controller