This morning I turned on my Vastex EconoRed InfraRed dryer and all of the sudden it is not getting up to curing temps. My Vastex is an older model but gets the job done and I do not have a user manual and I have contacted Vastex in the past pertaining to ther issues with it but its such an older model they could only point me towards the new models manuals....it is an 8ft dryer with two heating elements.
I will attach some pics and maybe a 48 second vid if it loads.
I believe my coil is bad because on the front control of the dryer I have 4 status lights: Power, Coil, Output and Ground. When I turn it on the "Power" light illuminates as it should and it stays on...but the "Coil" and "Output" come and go...and also the "Coil" light seems to flicker very lightly at times when it is not illuminated.
My questions:
1 - Shouldn't the "Coil" light STAY illuminated like the "Power" light? In my mind I feel is should stay on to show me the coil is functioning properly and feeding the elememts. I feel the "output" light is the one that should come and go because once the heating elements hit the desired temp the output light should go off....meaning the output light should only stay on when the heating element kicks in to get to temp..and once it hits the temp the output light goes off. Am I right in this thinking? Output to me is meaning the output of the elements. I do not know...this is all just guesses. Maybe the output is supposed to stay on at all times also meaning there is not kicking on and off and it stays on telling me it is putting out heat?
? Again..Im just guessing. Is there way to test the coil if I remove it?
2 - Being my dryer is out of commission until further notice, curing shirts with my flash is acceptable right? I printed two shirts (one color) and sent them under the flash..I stood there with my temp gun and they hit 340 range and I left it under the flash for about 30 seconds...shooting temp gun in all areas of the image in that 30 second time frame. This is a cured shirt now, correct? I will do a wash test....I just have 18 more shirt to go and I think this is how I have to finish them up.
Thanks for your time to read about my dryer issues. (if the vid loads, the vid is sideways..i held my phonr wrong..sorry about that.)