Memory comes back to me. You were one of the conversions I remember.
I remember you corrected me on the voltage and wattage drop.
To me the links you provided are over kill. A simple heating element harvested from a counter top combined with stock or aftermarket controller should do the job.
Here's the link from a year ago I found
As I'll be controlling this using only the Auber PID, is there any reason I SHOULDN'T simply wire the hot plate to the BC cord and be done with it (in other words, eliminating the hot plate control knob/light)? It looks like it'll work, but I don't know if changing the cord from a 2-prong to a...
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Not at all familiar with your Landmann. Does it use the heating element to produce the smoke as in heating the chips? A 1/4 power range top element may not get hot enough to put the chips in smoke mode.