Quick start guide for your TAP Controller on the Bonnie Glo’s
Your controller contains 4 pre-programmed options, but let’s put in your first QUICK-FIRING schedule. This
first program is to FULL FUSE for small pieces. Next you will see what is to be entered.
Rate 1 500 degrees per hour
Degrees F 1 1500
⁰
F temperature going to
Hold 1/ 0 min hold time in hours and minutes
Rate 2 FULL
Degrees F 2 950
⁰
F
Hold 2 30 min
Rate 3 0 enter a zero to end the program
High Temperature Warnings:
With the Bonnie Glo’s, however, you may start to experience small stress fractures in the body of
the kiln around the rim, when taken above 1600° or for long high temp holds. When attempting
pot melts, raking, casting, or other high temp work, please consider the appropriate firings
schedules for your kiln. While these are fast firing kilns, they were not designed to go to high
temps and hold for long periods of time. The cause of this is that the kiln body is shrinking just a
little bit more even though each kiln has been put into a kiln and pre-fired to 1800F. We are
improving the temperature ratings of the fiber each year and soon these issues should disappear.
Patch is available to mend cracks and small damaged areas of the fiber kilns as needed. The
square fiber kilns tend to be more tolerant to these higher temperatures.
The ProFuion 16’s are the largest interior that can be made and get the kiln to 1600F on 120 volts
and 15 amps. This is well about the fusing temperature needs. The kiln can make it to 1650F even
1700F if the kiln has great voltage supplied to it and is close to the breaker box. Distance and small
wire size in the wall are things that can keep the kiln from firing hotter and slower ramp rates.
Set-up for the AF3P Pro-Fusion 16 Square
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