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Hello all,
Completely new to oven construction but I have been thinking about an oven plan for a few months and want to use the Pompeii Oven free plan as the baseline for my pizza oven. I plan to use this oven to cook Pizza occasionally but also want to use it to bake bread, grill vegetable on a daily basis.
The unique part of this design is that I have rooftop solar that produces more than I need during the day. What I envision is that everyday when I am overproducing, I utilize the power to preheat the oven such that by late afternoon I have an oven hot enough to bake breads or grill vegetables on a daily basis.
I am pretty comfortable with electrical and IoT automation side of things(Start when power positive/automatically shutdown when in deficit) but struggling with some of the technical questions :
1. At peak I have around 2-3KW power excess while at other time it may be lower. How do I utilize this dynamic power availability on a heating element ? What kind of digital controller can I use that can be used between 0-100% power rating
2. Where should the heating element go in this design? Should it go under the cooking floor or under the dome ceiling or something completely different ?
3. Would this design benefit wood usage if I preheat with electric before I start the fire because that could add even more to the efficiency of design ?
4. I understand the concept of thermal mass but how long could a 40" oven retain its temperature once heated. Like if it reaches 350-400F by afternoon and then I have no sun how long would it retain temp around 350 ?
Completely new to oven construction but I have been thinking about an oven plan for a few months and want to use the Pompeii Oven free plan as the baseline for my pizza oven. I plan to use this oven to cook Pizza occasionally but also want to use it to bake bread, grill vegetable on a daily basis.
The unique part of this design is that I have rooftop solar that produces more than I need during the day. What I envision is that everyday when I am overproducing, I utilize the power to preheat the oven such that by late afternoon I have an oven hot enough to bake breads or grill vegetables on a daily basis.
I am pretty comfortable with electrical and IoT automation side of things(Start when power positive/automatically shutdown when in deficit) but struggling with some of the technical questions :
1. At peak I have around 2-3KW power excess while at other time it may be lower. How do I utilize this dynamic power availability on a heating element ? What kind of digital controller can I use that can be used between 0-100% power rating
2. Where should the heating element go in this design? Should it go under the cooking floor or under the dome ceiling or something completely different ?
3. Would this design benefit wood usage if I preheat with electric before I start the fire because that could add even more to the efficiency of design ?
4. I understand the concept of thermal mass but how long could a 40" oven retain its temperature once heated. Like if it reaches 350-400F by afternoon and then I have no sun how long would it retain temp around 350 ?