Been looking (and looking and looking and looking...) and it seems that you can get 1/16 DIN Chinese PID's for around $40-ish, and most other US (or Canada, or Jap) made ones (read-Brand Name) are basically about $170 and up-mostly UP. WAY the fruck up.
Love A's have been suggested but don't seem cheap, either, but what is with Omega's?
http://www.omega.com/info.html
'Once an OMEGA product design is perfected and tested, stock production takes place at our Bridgeport, New Jersey, manufacturing plant.'
http://www.omega.com/ppt/pptsc.asp?ref=CN7800&Nav=heap01
7800 Series:
An apparent integral Solid State Relay of 5 amps, dual displays, 2 alarms, and even RS485-for $99??!!
http://www.omega.com/Temperature/pdf/CN7800.pdf
I don't like that feeling of 'the cheap China made product suddenly deteriorating into worthless junk' that I have experienced too many times before. Shipping on something so light and small is negligible; maybe just aiming for a USA product is unnecessary overkill, but I want to build to last...
Obviously, we don't need aerospace reliability for turning on a brew pump or firing a gas valve, but if you have to buy another one because the first one, at half the price, took a squat, aren't you gonna want to buy the brand name version the second time around -anyway?
What am I missing here; is this the best brand name PID deal going-or what? And WHY, when all the other ones are easily double THIS price?
Love A's have been suggested but don't seem cheap, either, but what is with Omega's?
http://www.omega.com/info.html
'Once an OMEGA product design is perfected and tested, stock production takes place at our Bridgeport, New Jersey, manufacturing plant.'
http://www.omega.com/ppt/pptsc.asp?ref=CN7800&Nav=heap01
7800 Series:
An apparent integral Solid State Relay of 5 amps, dual displays, 2 alarms, and even RS485-for $99??!!
http://www.omega.com/Temperature/pdf/CN7800.pdf
I don't like that feeling of 'the cheap China made product suddenly deteriorating into worthless junk' that I have experienced too many times before. Shipping on something so light and small is negligible; maybe just aiming for a USA product is unnecessary overkill, but I want to build to last...
Obviously, we don't need aerospace reliability for turning on a brew pump or firing a gas valve, but if you have to buy another one because the first one, at half the price, took a squat, aren't you gonna want to buy the brand name version the second time around -anyway?
What am I missing here; is this the best brand name PID deal going-or what? And WHY, when all the other ones are easily double THIS price?