Pottery Crafts Mercury P59220 30Ltr From  £2260.00


The Potterycrafts Mercury is ideal for domestic situations and professional studios working on a small scale. This price includes the CERA-5 Controller 

P59220 SPECIFICATIONS


Firing Capacity: 30 litres (1.1 cu/ft).
Maximum Temperature: 1300°C (Cone 10)
Chamber Dimensions: 400mm wide x 230mm deep.
External Dimensions: 560mm wide x 710mm deep x 520mm high.
Weight: 42Kg.
Power: 3.0 kW.
Supply Required Single Phase (Amps): 13A.
Supply Required 3 Phase (Amps): N/A.
Kiln Furniture Set Included: 
Standard Controller: CERA-5 or CERA-10+ for marginal extra cost, select your choice from the drop down box above.

 

 

 

Key Features

The Potterycrafts Mercury is ideal for domestic situations and professional studios working on a small scale. This price includes the programmable controller. Other controllers are available, seelcted from the dropdown menu.


Kiln walls 63.5mm insulation brick plus 19mm backup insulation.
Stainless steel outer jacket.
The kiln floor 65mm of super-efficient Ultralite granular insulation normally found in industrial kilns.
Three support bricks are located in the base to enable a shelf/batt to be placed above the insulation.
Kiln lid 65mm insulation brick.
Kanthal A1 elements.
Fitted with 76mm castors for ease of movement.
Lid vent hole allows venting / cooling of the kiln during the firing process.
Side vent with chimney that can be ducted to atmosphere if required.
Captive interlock safety switch.
Dual contactors provide protection against over fires, when used with Potterycrafts Kiln controllers.

All Potterycrafts kilns are ROHS and WEEE compliant.

 

Kiln Furniture Set includes:

2 - P5481/1 350x10mm CIRCULAR BATT
3 - P5519 100mm PROP
1 - P3380.5 0.5Kg BATT WASH

1 Set included with kiln 

 

These kilns are made to order - delivery will be approx 4-6 weeks (will be confirmed when ordering)

 



1 - With CERA-5 Controller
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Pottery Crafts CERA-5 Controller

Kiln as standard with CERA-5 Controller

 

CERAcontrol is the latest development in a long series of controllers, they incorporate new software giving improved efficiency and ease of programming together with up to date safety and diagnostic features.

 

CERA-5+ has 5 programs each with delay start, 5 heating/cooling ramps, soak, cut off and program pause.

 

This controller gives the benefit multiple heating and cooling ramps for pottery firing where usually two programs are used, having five ramps allows for several heating and/or cooling phases in the program.

 

CONTROLLER TERMINOLOGY

 

Delay start

 

A period of time to elapse before controller starts a firing, for example, in order to make use of off-peak power.

 

 

Heating/Cooling Ramp

 

The rate of heating up or cooling down, usually expressed in number of degrees per hour, e.g. 150°C per hour. A Kiln firing to 600°C at 150°C per hour would take 4 hours.

 

Set Point/Target temperature

 

The temperature at which the controller changes the ramp rate, starts to soak or switches off. For example a program might fire at 100°C per hour to the first set point of 600°C then fire at 250°C per hour to top temperature of 1120°C.

 

Soak or Dwell

 

The periodof time that the kiln is held at a temperature in order to smooth out glazes or even out temperature in the kiln. Typically 15 to 20 minutes. 
Segment One part of the program, usually consisting of a ramp, a target temperature and a soak.

 

Event Relay

 

Output from a controller to operate an automatic damper,opening and closing it during the firing.

Pottery Crafts Without CERA-5 Controller
Without CERA-5 controller, you will need to choose the upgrade to CERA-10+ controller
2 - Up-grade to CERA-10 Controller
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Pottery Crafts CERA-10 Controller

Up-grade to CERA-10 Controller

 

CERAcontrol is the latest development in a long series of controllers, they incorporate new software giving improved efficiency and ease of programming together with up to date safety and diagnostic features.

 

CERA-10 has 10 programs each with 10 segments. Delay start and program pause. Each segment has a heating/cooling ramp, a target temperature and a soak. This controller is ideal for firings where a range of programs are frequently used.

It can be used for any firing requiring close control over multiple heating and cooling ramps such as macro crystalglazes and for glass slumping and fusing.

 

CONTROLLER TERMINOLOGY

 

Delay start

 

A period of time to elapse before controller starts a firing, for example, inorder to make use of off-peak power.

 

Heating/Cooling Ramp

 

The rate of heating up or cooling down, usually expressed in number of degrees per hour, e.g. 150°C per hour. A Kiln firing to 600°C at 150°Cper hour would take 4 hours.

 

Set Point/Target temperature

 

The temperature at which the controller changes the ramp rate, starts to soak or switches off. For example aprogram might fire at 100°C perhour to the first set point of 600°C then fire at 250°C per hour to top temperature of1120°C.

 

Soakor Dwell

 

The period of time that the kiln is held at a temperaturein order to smooth out glazes oreven out temperature in the kiln. Typically 15 to 20 minutes. 
Segment One partof the program, usually consisting of a ramp, a target temperature and a soak.

 

Event Relay

 

Output from a controller tooperate an automatic damper, opening and closing it during the firing.

Pottery Crafts Without CERA-10 Controller
Without CERA-10 Controller, kiln as standard with TC3300-1 controller
3 - Extra Furniture Set for Mercury Kiln P59220
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Pottery Crafts Extra Furniture Set for P59220
2 - P5481/1 350x10mm CIRCULAR BATT
3 - P5519 100mm PROP
1 - P3380.5 0.5Kg BATT WASH
Pottery Crafts Without Extra Furniture Set

Without Extra Furniture Set

 

Kiln as standard with 1 Furniture Set