Kiln Temperature Monitoring Dashboard

The default band is 1180–1240 °C, around the cone-6 maturing range for mid-fire stoneware. Treat it as a sensible starting point — your own specification, regulator, equipment manual or product datasheet sets the authoritative limits, and you can read your true band straight off the worst case those documents allow. Edit the readings against whatever band applies to you.

Because firing is heat-work, not just peak temperature: a fast firing that touches cone 6 briefly does less work on the clay than a slower one with a soak, so the glaze and body under-mature. Aged thermocouples also read high (showing 1222 when it's really 1200), under-firing without you knowing. Fire with witness cones beside the ware, add a soak at peak, and recalibrate or replace the thermocouple when the cones consistently fall short of the controller's reading.

Match the interval to the consequence and the rate of change: where an excursion spoils product or risks safety, log continuously (or as often as you can sample); where it is merely informative, daily or per-shift spot checks suffice. The in-range % and excursion count only mean something if your sampling is regular — sparse, irregular readings hide the excursions between them.

Yes — every reading is stored in this browser's localStorage on your device and nothing is uploaded to any server, which also makes the dashboard usable on sites with strict data policies. For shared, audit-grade records across a team or for regulatory retention, export the values into your own system.