Recent content by Jack Wiggins

I have distilled batch after batch using this PID.. It has worked great until this ONE TIME... It left me scratching my head... Overheating of electrical components can cause all kinds of weird unexplainable problems... Once I got everything cooled down, it was working right again... This may...

I've seen posts here in regards to people building their own PID and it showing too high of a temperature. I've seen posts where the room temperature is way high... Here's what happened to me. This may not be the issue you are having, but it was an issue I had and I figured it out... I also...

Ok, I know this is an old post, but I found the solution to my PID reading too high. When I built mine, I drilled holes in the box for vent the heat from the inside of the box. I even wired a small computer fan inside. I placed this on a separate switch. One day, I was operating my pid and...