On Aug 26, 7:20*pm, "larry moe 'n curly"
wrote:
This toaster:

*http://www.kittyhell.com/wp-content/...lo-kitty-toast....

is supposed to burn a Hello Kitty face on one side of the bread, but
it can't do that unless it's set so high that the other side (the non-
Kitty side) of the bread burns. *Is there any way to make it toast
more evenly?

All the heating coils are in series, so I can't cut the power to just
some of the coils by adding a diode.

The bread is held in baskets that clamp the bread on the sides when
it's lowered, and I tried making one side of the basket hold the toast
farther from the coils on the non-Kitty side, but it didn't help.

I'm thinking of covering the non-Kitty side with a screen to block
some of the heat, but I can't find a suitable non-metal material (to
prevent shock hazard).


So you want less power on the plain side, relative to the stencil
side.
- capacitor across plain side. But this will increase Pout on other
side, so add a series choke to the toaster, or run it off a small
transformer to cut a bit of voltage off the supply
- snip some of the R wire out of the plain side, and wire it in on the
stencil side
- convert the lead to 3 wire, with a wire for the centre tap, and run
it off a CT transformer plus a small series tf on one side, so the 2
element sides get different votlage

etc etc. How do you want to do it?


NT