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Chuck,
I'm not sure why you would want to bypass the thermostat control?
On my clay pot smoker, I use the thermostat control to regulate the temperature inside the clay pot, which I monitor with a thermometer in the top of the clay pot.
If you jump the two wires together, doesn't that result...
I also made a clay pot smoker using a single electric burner from Harbor Freight.
The very first thing I did was to separate the heating element part from the sheet metal base, which has that exact same rheostat control. I also added two heat proof wires to allow me to have the control part...
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