Electronic Temperature Control - Gold Medal Pop-O-Gold Instruction Manual

ELECTRONIC TEMPERATURE CONTROL

Operation
The control jumper is factory set to 440°F, which stops power to the kettle when the thermocouple reaches
440 degrees. On the Pop-O-Gold machine, this is also the ideal point to dump the popped corn out of the
kettle. On the first start-up this is also the ideal time to load the corn and oil. Therefore if the kettle heat
switch is turned on and the buzzer is sounding one of the following actions should be taken:
•
Load the corn and oil or
•
Dump the popped corn from the kettle or
•
Turn off the kettle heat switch if you are done popping corn
Adjustment of Electronic Control
The Pop-O-Gold has an electronic kettle control with 2 thermocouples, one for control and one for limit.
There are no mechanical thermostats in this kettle.
There are (4) factory adjustments on the control:
1. Control temperature – do not adjust.
2. Signal to dump – If you want the signal to dump to be a little sooner or later you can adjust the
potentiometer marked "kettle dump". CW is sooner, CCW is later.
3. The patented overshoot circuit is tuned for the kettle, do not adjust this potentiometer.
4. The audible signal to dump has three options; full volume, half volume, no sound (just the yellow
light). Adjustments are by jumper positions. We ship with the signal at full volume.
It does not matter which TC
goes to A or B. It does
matter that the yellow leads
go to the positive terminals.
Remove this
Remove this
jumper for
jumper for
lower volume
no sound
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Pop-O-Gold
The control temperature is set
at 440°F. DO NOT ADJUST
The overshoot
DO NOT ADJUST
This is the "Kettle Dump"
adjustment, and is factory
set to signal when the
kettle is ready to dump.
Turning CW will signal
sooner, CCW will signal
later. If you need to adjust,
make very small
adjustments.
Hot Lead is at L1,
Neutral lead at L2.
For models made after 12/04
is set at -0%
(Full CCW).