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@Bill Kielb @neilestrick Thank you so much!! Bill I’m so impressed and grateful for the time and energy you took to help me out! I have been trying to fix this since last year when I received the kiln but nobody had a clue …and in just one day you fixed it!!! It took a long time and effort for me to get a kiln and I was devastated because I couldn’t use it. I can’t express how happy and relieved I feel!! God bless you!! After all this time, I am about to finish my first glaze firing with the temporary set up, the kiln is cooling now and everything is going great! I will follow the advice and update with pictures and results so more people like me can find this post in the future and fix similar issues easily. This is a great community and you guys are amazing, thank you so much!

It worked Bill Kielb thank you so much!! I took the temperature through all the bisque cicle and with the kiln off it started at 32.3°C, when the kiln was at 500°C the Relay was 34°C … when the oven reached 1000°C the relay was 37.4°C. So with the fan blowing on it the relay survived and finished the bisque cicle just fine. So now I know I have to cool the relay, I don’t have a clue about how to do it … installing a fan in the electrical box of the kiln… …will an Xbox fan be enough? I guess I have to hire an electrician but nobody in my city knows about Kilns, and the factory in London clearly can’t help… maybe some computer expert? Or an electrical repairman for AC and ovens? Who will have the kind of knowledge that I need to keep the relay cool and running fine? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

That’s great information thank you so much!!! I will try this theory tomorrow. Will this set up in the attached image work? Also I’m in Yucatán Mexico, so temperature here is around 30 degrees centigrade. (25 degrees centigrade when cool weather and 40 degrees centigrade when hot weather).

I have a new small kiln: https://www.technicalsupermarket.com/component/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,4/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,2326/category_id,424/manufacturer_id,0/vmcchk,1/ It works fine for a while (sometimes one full firing, sometimes a few hours) and then the relays are gone and the kiln only heats full blast or doesn’t heat at all, so sometimes the relay is badly burned or sometimes looks like new, either way won’t work anymore. The factory in London doesn’t have answers, engineers and electricians here (Mexico) don’t find anything wrong with the connections or the electrical installation. (The kiln has its own line and breaker). The kiln is made for one phase 230v and electricity here is biphasic 220v, but the manufacturer says that’s not the issue, that they have sold lots of ovens to Mexico and USA and never had a problem. It’s a very small kiln with a very simple box, but nobody can tell me how to fix it. If somebody here has answers I’ll be very grateful. Thank you in advance. * I have only done bisque firings (max temp 1000 degrees Centigrade).