Good morning FC!
Happy to report, all testing on newly wired up Timbers has gone really well. Another reason for the coolness of Timber is the length of the 14 gauge wire feeding the coil. In Timber I have room to snake the wires under the board without much fuss. While the coil connector pads are at the top of the board (fire button end), and just under the coil, they are looped down below the connectors and bent 180 degrees back up. This wiring takes place out of the way and *below board*. The coil is formed with 18 gauge wire that needs to be converted to 14 gauge via butt splices. These butt splice connections, or actual soldering to the board, can be the last connection before dropping the cover plate in for final installation. Those are the kind of *upgrades* I am implementing now, more about internal wiring and the assembly process. The funny thing about building new products, it teaches you new things about the products you already build. Many of these build adjustments will find there way into LB.
The challenge with the LB Elite was width. How could we get a battery, coil, and DNA board to fit side by side by side? The board needs to be at one end, the battery the other, that left the center for the coil. We did a pretty ingenious job of making this happen by placing all wire connections under the coil (wire box).
Notice in the Timber there is no wire box. The floor between the battery and board compartments is partially opened for clearance and accessibility, and this serves as the wire compartment. A second, finished floor, is added after final assembly, on the battery side.
The Timber coil box is what's really unique about Timber. In addition to allowing a longer feed to the coil (keeps the board about 10 to 15 degrees cooler), the coil box is a full 50 x 50 mm square of pure wood. Instead of trying to minimize everything, we have room to surround the instaHeat coil in an all wood housing with some mass. There is literally nothing in this half of the unit but wood and stainless steel. The compartment is vented with four 1/8" dia x 3/4" deep holes. The depth of the holes creates a hair of resistance, but there's 4 of them. The compartment is lined with stainless steel foil right up to the vents, and filled with a 4.8" x 1/2" spiral mesh coil mounted to a 7/8" x 1/8" wood disc. The bottom sections houses all the electronics. I consider the top section of the Timber the oven, the bottom section the electronics (DNA board and battery). The top section may get warm, but the bottom section remains room temp. The grain on the top section runs side to side, so as to conduct heat to the sides and out, vs down, but I feel the main reason for the perceived low heat build up is just the sheer mass of the wood dispersing it. It would take a lot of heat to heat soak the Timber oven.
The current instaHeat coil + Elite combo is producing some great results, whether in be in LB or Timber form. The below coupon code combined with a September shipping date makes a Labor Day purchase a good idea.
LABOR DAY SALE
coupon code: NOWORK saves 15% on all Elites / Lil' Bud & Timber
Happy to report, all testing on newly wired up Timbers has gone really well. Another reason for the coolness of Timber is the length of the 14 gauge wire feeding the coil. In Timber I have room to snake the wires under the board without much fuss. While the coil connector pads are at the top of the board (fire button end), and just under the coil, they are looped down below the connectors and bent 180 degrees back up. This wiring takes place out of the way and *below board*. The coil is formed with 18 gauge wire that needs to be converted to 14 gauge via butt splices. These butt splice connections, or actual soldering to the board, can be the last connection before dropping the cover plate in for final installation. Those are the kind of *upgrades* I am implementing now, more about internal wiring and the assembly process. The funny thing about building new products, it teaches you new things about the products you already build. Many of these build adjustments will find there way into LB.
The challenge with the LB Elite was width. How could we get a battery, coil, and DNA board to fit side by side by side? The board needs to be at one end, the battery the other, that left the center for the coil. We did a pretty ingenious job of making this happen by placing all wire connections under the coil (wire box).
Notice in the Timber there is no wire box. The floor between the battery and board compartments is partially opened for clearance and accessibility, and this serves as the wire compartment. A second, finished floor, is added after final assembly, on the battery side.
The Timber coil box is what's really unique about Timber. In addition to allowing a longer feed to the coil (keeps the board about 10 to 15 degrees cooler), the coil box is a full 50 x 50 mm square of pure wood. Instead of trying to minimize everything, we have room to surround the instaHeat coil in an all wood housing with some mass. There is literally nothing in this half of the unit but wood and stainless steel. The compartment is vented with four 1/8" dia x 3/4" deep holes. The depth of the holes creates a hair of resistance, but there's 4 of them. The compartment is lined with stainless steel foil right up to the vents, and filled with a 4.8" x 1/2" spiral mesh coil mounted to a 7/8" x 1/8" wood disc. The bottom sections houses all the electronics. I consider the top section of the Timber the oven, the bottom section the electronics (DNA board and battery). The top section may get warm, but the bottom section remains room temp. The grain on the top section runs side to side, so as to conduct heat to the sides and out, vs down, but I feel the main reason for the perceived low heat build up is just the sheer mass of the wood dispersing it. It would take a lot of heat to heat soak the Timber oven.
The current instaHeat coil + Elite combo is producing some great results, whether in be in LB or Timber form. The below coupon code combined with a September shipping date makes a Labor Day purchase a good idea.
LABOR DAY SALE
coupon code: NOWORK saves 15% on all Elites / Lil' Bud & Timber
