Background: I am trying to automate a home brewery, and want to use an induction burner (stove) as my heat source. I need to be able to turn it on and off with my arduino, but most of them don't turn on when you plug them in, only when you press a switch. I had an induction stove with push buttons, and opened it up to solder a wire that would bypass the switch when the arduino shorted it with a relay. However, in doing so, something else went wrong, and now it does not work anymore.
How could I, without opening the burner, have the ardunio manipulate the buttons? I though I could tape a wire with electrical tape on the button, and then switch that wire to ground or something. But when I tried that on something else with a touch sensor (kevo door lock), it did not seem to work.
short of a servo moving with a conductive pad attached to it simulating a finger press im not sure what else to suggest
Perhaps pairing up with someone which is more comfortable in hacking into the stoves wiring. Keep in mind that a touch pad button wouldnt have any significant voltage flowing through it and it would merely trigger a transistors for example. some careful diagnostics would need to be made by an electronic engineer for the correct way of bypassing it, though it would be alot more practical and neater than robotic fingers so to speak
This sounds a somewhat dangerous and very inefficient heat regulating solution.
A water bath with say an AC water heating element switched on and off via a relay may be more what you want?
The water in the bath gives a high stability.
As long as the wiring is OK and you have properly accounted for any ratings in the components of the relay, then it would seem a lot safer than having a 240degreeC thing left on in your house.
