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Un-inverting the pins seemed to work. Thanks again for the tip. BTW: if you guys are ever in Denver, I’m sure I owe you a beer The fermenter setup:

Yeah. I realize it’s kind of an ‘uh duh’ on my part. Senior moment @day_trippr : I’m heating several gallons of glycol. This whole setup is on a jacketed fermenter I’ll try to in-invert the pins. Let ya know how it works. Thanks for the tip

Current wiring

I’m controlling a 1500w (I think) heater and an air conditioning unit. If the heater is 1500w I know it’s too big for the relay. Upon opening up the relay yesterday, my suspicions are confirmed: that relay was burnt to a crisp. The air conditioner relay however, has never burned out. I’ve...

yeah. i think i will tonight.

About 3-4 weeks old. It was the third one to fail. My setup is outside, so when there’s no beer in the fermenter, I have the temp set to ~40 just to keep things from getting too frosty. So the relay is cycling periodically, but nothing ridiculous like in your video

well, when i got home, i plugged in the fermenter again (the controller and relays are self-contained on the fermenter). sure enough, as soon as i plugged it in the heater started up again. while it was plugged in and heating up, i unplugged the control wires from the controller to the relay...

this is the relay i have in there: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072BY3KJF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 i'm not home now. when i get home, i can take a picture and show you how it's wired.

so...this happened last night. somehow the heater got stuck on even though the controller was saying "cool" any ideas? i'm assuming the relay went poop...again

FWIW, i use an M12 connector to a screw terminal shield. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UT0QLJA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

FWIW, i finally got fermentrack installed on my 1bbl conical. so far, so good

thanks to help from @Tobor_8thMan i was able to resurrect an old diddy from @day_trippr and get a current fridge temp readout on tobor's version of rpints. instructions are here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/web-accessible-temperature-logger-for-raspberry-pi.469523/ and here...

Got this error when trying to flash wemos. i flashed another virgin wemos D1 the other day with exactly the same command w/o issue. this one has all the stuff soldered on and the one diode clipped off. the battery is charged and the mac recognizes the device. but it doesn't seem to connect...

riddle me this batman, i don't have anything connected to D8. why does it think i do?

that worked great. thanks yet again!