When I first built the kontainer my thoughts were dominated by the safety it would provide from fire. I live upstairs! Needless to say, I didn't anticipate the myriad of problems and resulting solutions down the road. At first I thought I would pull so much air through the kontainer that I would have no problem with the controls overheating. WRONG. I melted parts in the sitter and scorched wiring. I had to take a different approach. Remember what I said about thinking of the kontainer as a small kiln room? That's what I did. It is a fire proof room designed to get hot by providing a safe place to fire kilns. It dawned on me not to try to cool the air around the kiln. I want heat. So I decided to simply cool the controls selectivly.
Those two black circles in the last detail photo are small 55 cfm boxer fans mounted on the inside of the kontainer. These are the same type of low volume, quiet fans that cool your computer. I bought a couple of them and mounted them on the side of the kontainer to provide a cooling breeze for my kiln controls that are in by the heat. The one pictured above blows directly on the bottom of the louvered sitter box. I just bent some aluminum sheet to direct the air from the fan. I put a piece of window screen between the kontainer and the fan to keep cat hair and the like from being sucked up by the fans.
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