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The second major revision of the plumbing is getting wrapped up. Here are the changes: 1. swapped out my paddle wheel flow meters with the IFMs. 2. added some valves to drain the MT and BK during CIP. 3. added the Hops Boss 4. added a path in the BK re-circulation loop to bypass the chiller...

My exact thoughts completely regarding this topic.

since it supports pressurized fermentation, count me in

Yes. It sounds more like you are looking more for the easiest to use brewing appliance for a beginner/non-brewer, not necessarily "as automated as possible".

You are missing the forest from the trees. Yes floating point variables will have much higher precision to reduce computational rounding errors and provide maximum range/precision. No need to re invent that. What I am talking about is truncating a number to a certain amount of decimal places...

In my case with the precision issues, I am calculating a value and then trying to concatenate that into a string to display on a global. Here is another example where I am reading the value from my current sensor, multiplying it by 240, and concatenating "W" on the end for a power display value...

Worked on getting the Hops Boss fully integrated into the brew process yesterday. This was not completely straight forward as one would hope. I needed to parse all the hop additions, combine some, split some into multiple drops, and ignore others like dry hop additions. I also need to...

Its hard to tell exactly what you are looking for as you state "as automated as possible", but you list a bunch of single vessel brewing appliances. Although these brew appliances fall into the "automated" category, they certainly lack lots of features if you are trying to be "as automated as...

Minor feature requests. 1. When a script errors out it is paused and turns yellow. I have scripts that I pause and resume during brew day. It would be nice if these were visually differentiated more, so I can more quickly tell if a script has crashed vs, is paused. 2. When a script errors...

More quarantine funtimes today. Got my 232 Ohm resistors from Digikey yesterday. Took 2 days longer than normal, so not bad considering. I snuck out to the garage in between work meetings today and soldered in the new resistors to the mega screw terminal board. I wanted to have a way to...

I saw similar behavior last weekend when I was testing out my updated brewday script. I have a global (EndCondition) that displays the end condition for the current brewing step. Despite what I set for precision my calculated end volume didn't seem to change at all from setting the precision...

Furnace valves can only be used with low pressure burners. A furnace valve will provide everything needed for ignition, flame detection, etc. By going with high pressure burners, you can't use a furnace valve and therefore need to re-invent the wheel WRT auto ignition and flame detection. So...

It's not so much just process control, but automation in general. I've implemented some sort of automation at all my "career" jobs. Most of it has been for testing of electronics/computers. Most recently I am working on automating our circuit board design flow. Also, thanks for the epoxy...

I've Been busy the last couple of days. So much discussion over one of my silly ideas. Also, the mobile browser sucks compared to the defunct app. The idea was that if someone was convinced the needed ultimate control, they would use SSR's with PID control. Also, it was under the ASSumption...

There are several different reasons why the upper or lower limits of a sensor are determined by the manufacturer. A lot of the time its not because the sensor will be destroyed and stop working. There is usually some sort of margin factor built in as well. With all that being said, there is a...

You can use PWM to control the speed of DC pumps through a mosfet board.

Well this is what I came up with after a lot of tweaking. Time for bed.

Not sure what you mean about pulse rate, these are 4-20mA outputs. The measuring range shows 0.1 lpm for the minimum on: https://www.ifm.com/us/en/product/SM6004

I am having a hard time deciding on a background color. Blue Gray Green

I have also force myself to plant my ass at the desk most of today to work on updating/revising the brew space background image. Now I need to re-layout all the device elements over the new background image.