Heater for Petri dish

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Kadav

Joined May 11, 2018
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Hello i have to heat a petri dish for some appliances , and i would love to know which recomandations of heater can you please give me ?

It is for small samples .

thanks
 

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Kadav

Joined May 11, 2018
158
A lot of specifics are unanswered, like size of plate, open or closed, uniformity of temperature needed, temperature range.

For starters, I would use a temperature-regulated hot plate. Surely, the arduino crowd has something like that virtually plug and play. You could also use a heating pad like the round one here: https://www.omega.com/en-us/industr...VR9bACh0_6wGTEAYYAyABEgJjmvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Minco is another supplier.
Thank you very much , the plate is opened and the size of 90 mm and i need to keep on temperature of37 deg
petri dish.JPG
 

jpanhalt

Joined Jan 18, 2008
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My advice is the same. You will not need much wattage. If the temperature must be stable across the plate, I would lean toward using a hot plate or aluminum disk slightly larger. The disk could have a machined depression to hold the plate more securely.
 

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Kadav

Joined May 11, 2018
158
My advice is the same. You will not need much wattage. If the temperature must be stable across the plate, I would lean toward using a hot plate or aluminum disk slightly larger. The disk could have a machined depression to hold the plate more securely.
And how could you plug the plate to the arduino , i understand the use of the silicon mat, but not the hot plate . or it is the same ?
 

jpanhalt

Joined Jan 18, 2008
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You will not be able to connect the heating pad or hot plate directly to the arduino. Or, while you may be able to connect it, I don't think it will work.

Your arduino is the controller. It can read a temperature from an appropriate sensor. Almost any sensor will work for that temperature range. Then it can provide a control signal to the heater power supply to keep a constant temperature.
 

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Kadav

Joined May 11, 2018
158
Oooh alright , i understand , my idea was basically to drive the heater with a MOSFET that is connected to an arduino . that probably would give 12volts . but i have never pluged a power supply to arduino .
do you know any power supplies that go to arduino ?
Thanks for the help
 

ElectricSpidey

Joined Dec 2, 2017
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You might be able to make use of a 1500 watt 120 volt stove element, running at 5 or 12 volts.

12 volts should give you about 15 watts and 5 volts should give you about 3 watts.

Then you could just use your MOSFET and drive the element.

There are companies that make low voltage heater elements.
 

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Kadav

Joined May 11, 2018
158
You might be able to make use of a 1500 watt 120 volt stove element, running at 5 or 12 volts.

12 volts should give you about 15 watts and 5 volts should give you about 3 watts.

Then you could just use your MOSFET and drive the element.

There are companies that make low voltage heater elements.
you mean as a heater?
 
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