Just a quick "thanks" to tallbm for this tutorial. Did the rewire yesterday with just one trip to the hardware store (wire nuts & pop rivets). Hooked up the Auber and tested it. This is going to make my MES so much better.
Auber's Operation Manual really sucks, by the way. I wish someone would do a tutorial in normal person English instead of engineer speak.
I'm glad it helped! :)
Heres a bit of info that may help you or others with Auber PIDs so please bare with the long post :)
Yeah their documentation takes a little bit of mental adjustment to get to.
It's flow and order doesn't make much sense, most sections seem to be written like a school paper/essay, and then their diagrams are not initially intuitive and the diagrams are suppose to take the place of explaining out steps to operate the device.
Once you absorb the documentation as whole then the 2nd or 3rd pass starts to make sense... some :)
When in doubt remember the SET button simply takes you to the next setting.
If you hold SET for 3 seconds the next setting is to go into programming menus like (I think):
-SET 3 seconds
-Enter 166 to enter PID settings menu
-Hit SET to move to next setting
-Use +- buttons to adjust settings
-Again hit SET to move to next setting
-This is how you can get to the AutoTune setting and set the value to what the documentation says to start AutoTune if you want to do that
You generally have 6 steps with the Auber. Each step contains a Cooking Temp (C for cooking temp ) and Time (t for time) setting.
So you have:
- C1 & t1 for step 1
- C2 & t2 for step 2
- etc. etc. down to C6 & t6
To set a step you do the following:
-Hit SET button and C1 will flash for a moment
-Use +- button to enter a Cooking Temp
-Hit SET button again and t1 will flash for a moment
-Use +- button to enter the time for the C1 cooking temp to be held for step 1 (see my tip for setting time below)
-Hit Set button again to move on from t1 and you should see C2 flash for setting temp on step 2
For simple folks like me who may not want/care to use all the step features, I recommend you simply Zero out all of the values for all steps
C (Cooking time) and
t (time to hold cooking temp for that step).
Zero'ed out means:
-C1 = 0, t1 =0
-C2 =0, t1 =0
- do this for every step
Now set C1 to your most commonly used cooking temp (225, 250, 275, etc.)
-C1 = 250
Now set t1 to 1200 (which is 1200 minutes or 20 hours)
-t1 - 1200
At this point you are only using step 1 (C1 &t1).
Setting t1 to 1200min/20hours means that you don't have to worry about the Auber turning off the power on any cooks/smokes shorter than 20 hours.
Finally, you can simply just turn on the Auber and if you want/need to adjust the cooking temp you:
-Hit SET and C1 will flash
-Use +- to adjust the Cooking Temp for C1 (225, 250, 275, 160, etc etc. whatever you need)
-Hit SET again to lock in the C1 value and it will move to t1
-DO NOTHING here as all you intended to do was change the cooking temp which is done. After about 5-10 seconds the auber screen will flash back to showing you the current temp and you are locked in to cook!
Following these steps should make it so that your Auber utilizes only 1 step and makes setting the Cooking Temp easy and carefree for any cooks/smokes that finish within 20 hours :)
I hope this info helps!