Paragon switch repair
Hey everybody, I just bought my first kiln. It's a used Paragon A81B, 240v manual kiln with a kiln sitter, it has 4 switch settings: off, low, medium and high. 3 of the 4 elements will come on but only when both knobs are switched to the high position. otherwise nothing happens at all. I ran my kiln for nearly 20 hours but never it got up to cone 06. I've checked all the elements and there seems to be connectivity, so I figure my problem is the switches. Does this sound right to anybody else?
So follow the table in the link above or table below:
The old lead L1 ark- les, now connects to the ‘a’ terminal on the new switch. The old lead N connects to the ‘b’ terminal on the new switch. The old lead L2 on the Ark-les connects to the ‘e’ lead on the new switch. Go though the table from top to bottom and you should be good to go. If you bought a 3 way switch instead of a four way, you will run out of wires, your switch needs to have 7 connections. It appears the Ark-less is missing t