VTC Creation
VTC Assembly
VTC Heater Assembly
- Bend the TC-T FEP 3x60 using the thermocouple bender (TL-TCB)
- Make a first bend on the line indicated by the tool, with the red wire facing up. Use a wooden block to push the thermocouple against the metal rod so that it creates a 90 degree bend.
- Turn the thermocouple 180 degrees and make a second bend.
- There should be two 90 degree bends that create an S shape.
- Find or make 3 of the TC-T economy.
- These wires should have been made when cutting all of the wires for the system.
- The TC-T economy should be at least as long as the TC-T FE.
- Cut a 1 inch piece of heatshrink 2:1 clear 1. Place the heatshrink on the VTT heater heatshrink sizer. Carefully heat the folded edges so that it becomes circular.
- The heatshrink should be mostly round but it shouldn't grip the sizer.
- Place the tip of the TC-T FEP into the small hole at the bottom of a completed VTC thermal conduit (MP-VTCTHCND).
- Check the model to properly orientate the TC-T FEP.
- Take a TC-T economy cable and place it to the right of the TC-T FEP so that the red wires on both are facing the same direction.
- Slide the 1 inch piece of heatshrink over the thermocouples.
- Very gently heat it to the point where it is loosely holding the cables.
- Adjust the blue cable such that the junction is 0.71 in from the bottom edge of the conduit cup.
- Heat the heatshrink to hold both TC.
- Insert the heater into the VTC body and align the TC-T economy with the hole that it will go through. [IMAGE]
- First use the bottom side of the VTT to line up the TC. [IMAGE]
- Then insert the heater into the VTT. [IMAGE]
- Align the heater so that the cables rest in the notch at the top of the VTC body.
- Check that the orientation has the blue thermocouple cable on the right, the white conduit wires on the left, and the metal thermocouple in the middle.
- Bend a second TC-T 90 degrees at the junction and hook it over the cup of the heater.
- Ziptie the TC-T to the other thermocouple wires.
- Shape .5 grams of copper wool around a culture tube quartz 12 x 75 mm.
- Slowly push the cooper wool into the cup of the heater. Avoid bunching up the copper wool, the thickness should be consistent.
- Place transfer tape around the edges of the VTC body upper.
- Press the lid onto the body of the VTC upper.
- Place transfer tape around the edges of the VTC body lower. Clear the tape away from any of the inner cavities.
- Press the body of the VTC upper into the body of the VTC lower.