- Apr 19, 2007
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Hey,
I have an electric brewery in my basement.
I have an idea for a different way to control the temp on a MES.
Rather then having the element either on or off, like the current temp controller, has anyone wired up their MES with a PID controller?
The advantage I can think to doing it this way is that you can have the controller only supply partial power to the element for a more constant heating and smoke control.
I would think that it would then have less of a hot spot on the side with the heater because there would be less heat.
A link to a controller that I am talking about can be found here.
http://auberins.com/index.php?main_p...27cc6a18c9b9c6
Then you would also need a SSR:
http://auberins.com/index.php?main_p...&products_id=9
If my smoker wasn't under warranty I would do the leg work and the tutorial on how to do this, but would like to know if anyone else has done something like this?
I have an electric brewery in my basement.
I have an idea for a different way to control the temp on a MES.
Rather then having the element either on or off, like the current temp controller, has anyone wired up their MES with a PID controller?
The advantage I can think to doing it this way is that you can have the controller only supply partial power to the element for a more constant heating and smoke control.
I would think that it would then have less of a hot spot on the side with the heater because there would be less heat.
A link to a controller that I am talking about can be found here.
http://auberins.com/index.php?main_p...27cc6a18c9b9c6
Then you would also need a SSR:
http://auberins.com/index.php?main_p...&products_id=9
If my smoker wasn't under warranty I would do the leg work and the tutorial on how to do this, but would like to know if anyone else has done something like this?