HEATING ARCHIVE

You're up to like 50 gallons. Let's get into building the P ID controller for a multiple element circuit. It may look like a hot mess but it really is straightforward. My transformer, my hot leg, and my neutral leg. When I plug it in the transformer is going to work and the fan will come because of a 12-volt. Now I've also added my donuts I just call it a donut. Its a sensor for the amp meter that I've put in.  I've put it on the main, a live wire coming in because you only put a sensor...

Welcome back this is the website that dares to unlock all those mysteries of home distilling.  Our intent is to make you as safe and also successful as possible through your endeavors. It doesn't really matter what your process is, whether you're making beer, making wine, a lot of these processes are carryovers into all of those different hobbies. That includes Bakelite ovens in this particular discussion, kilns, anywhere where you are using heat and you need precise control.  When we talk about precise control, of course, there are many different ways of doing this. One of them is SC...

Welcome brewers, distillers, hobbyists of all types. I hope you find this as educational as it is enjoyable for me to produce. This is a discussion that will unlock the mysteries of the proportional integral derivative. I have P ID controllers they’re really old. I just wanted to do them better. I do understand the process and how a proportional integral derivative controller actually works. There are thousands of people out there that are having great results.  It's time to try to dispel some of those rumors and myths because it's real and I understand it's really easy to miss...

Welcome. We did a little bit of testing because I wanted to make a determination to at least give everybody a data point on heater elements that we use in stills or in brewing equipment. And the data point gives us an idea of where to start. So what I did was I took the three-gallon, I have, and tested three different elements. I tested the 1500 watt element, at 120 volts. I tested the 2000 watt element at 120 volts and I tested the 330 400 watt element, and I did that one at 240 volts. And what I...

Welcome back we love having you. And we're excited to be here as always. Now today's discussion is on pulse width modulation. This is just another means of controlling heat. It's just a little different. It's another method to get at the same end result.  Principle is something you don't violate. I've got pulse width modulators. They operate. The same principle is just a different way of getting there. I've got one here, this is the 120 volt model. I've got a light attached to it. These are really unique because they do work a little bit differently. Same result,...