The bed draws current based on its resistance, These beds draw 11amp at 12v
The bed does need to be regulated for temperature, Ie you have a thermistor on the bed that tells your controller the current temperature, the controller turns the bed on and off to maintain the set temperature
Normally you just plug the bed in to the controller and the thermistor into the controller and update the firmware with the type of thermistor you installed. You may need to change the motherboard definition to set bed, fan and hotend mode.
NB most cheap controller board come with a crappy bed mosfet, I would advise replacing it with a better one.
A IRLB 8743 is recommended over the normal STP55NF06L
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/14/2016 10:10PM by Dust.