My PID controller

[anglerman]

I've been lurking here for a while and haven't posted in a couple years so I thought I'd try to share a video of the pid I made for my smokers.

I have it running a fan controlling my intake air. My fan hooks up to this manifold which is directly under my fire

The controller and fan run off 12 volts which go through a converter so I can plug into 110.




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[yankee2bbq]

That's awesome!

 

[anglerman]

That's awesome!

Thank you, it works great I thought I would be able to post a video of it in use but I guess I'm not sure how


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[tallbm]

Looks cool man!

 

[dward51]

That is a very cool looking project.  What did you use for the PID settings?  Did it auto-tune or did you have to manually fiddle with them to get it dialed in?

 

[anglerman]

That is a very cool looking project.  What did you use for the PID settings?  Did it auto-tune or did you have to manually fiddle with them to get it dialed in?

I use auto tune every time, I just turn it on set my temp and let it go

 

[bbqwillie]

Is that a REX C100 controller? I've got a couple of them and they do a pretty darn good job for being so cheap.

 

[anglerman]

Is that a REX C100 controller? I've got a couple of them and they do a pretty darn good job for being so cheap.

It's from Auber Instruments


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[bbqwillie]

It's from Auber Instruments


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That's made for Auber by RKC Instruments, Japan. It's the SA-100. The C-100 I referenced is a cheap Chinese knock-off built to lower tolerances.  That's a very well designed and built unit (the Auber one, not the Chinese one). You should never have a problem with it.

 

[anglerman]

Here's the one I used

http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=601

 

[bbqwillie]

Here's the one I used

http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=601

Good unity. Wise choice.

 

[anglerman]

Here's one of my videos of the unit working that I uploaded to YouTube. This is from when I was smoking a meatloaf.

 

[anglerman]

And here's a video of the first trial run nothing cooking. The video makes it look like the controllor temps are flashing actuality they are not doing that.