Recent content by rlp847

That just blows my mind that it hit properly on both tests and was off still. I guess as long as the cooker and the probe are close I can feel okay. I use a SV, assuming people are making their own though? May be the next project.

Found a little time to get outside and dangle the sensor through the vent and have it on a probe tree with the probe I know is accurate. After the initial auto tune things are looking good so far.

Well said and thanks. As long as I can get it close, I’ll be happy. You’re right about the original temp swings, easily 30 both over and under. Have another probe on its way, but tomorrow may take it and just run the sensor into the box just to test it out.

Hopefully the longer probe solves it. I have all the wiring ‘neat’ and tidied up, fed through the hole up top into an enclosure with the PID, so if I can keep it through the existing hole that’d be great. I guess my other though would be to put a high heat grommet where the existing probe fed...

When people go the PID route, do they use the existing hole for the temp sensor, or is there a better place to mount? The KType Sensors I’ve tried have all been the short stubby ones, I have a longer one coming as someone here I finally found had a similar issue and attributed it to the back...

And when the PID hits 225, my probe is showing 313. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, if it were always like 10 degrees off it’s just a matter of adjustment. I’m completely not understanding what is happening here.

Have tried both an Inkbird 106VH and a Mypin T4A, with different SSRs and different KType sensors and I am always off different amounts (massively) between freeze tests and my set point of 225. After putting it back together yet again, it’s doing an Autotune and it’s 104 on the PID and 182 on my...

Yep, definitely made sure it was set to K type. Think I am going to order another just to rule out a faulty unit.

Thanks for the reply! I’d had them an inch apart, and then actually thought the same thing so moved it so it was the same height but about 3-4 inches to the side of it. Wondering if I need to order another PID just to see, can always return the first if it’s defective. This thing really has me...

So I have a 2nd MES 30 that I got and the control board was bad so I rewired it from research done here and am attempting to use an Inkbird 106VH with it. For whatever reason, with multiple k-type sensors when I do a boil test it reads 200.4, yet my 3 probes hooked up to my monitor read between...

Some really great looking builds on this site. I’m jealous of the consistency some of you are getting with your PIDs. I have an MES 30 with an Inkbird 106VH, it doesn’t seem to matter what I do settings-wise nothing changes. I have a couple different sensors coming tomorrow in case that’s the...