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Thanks for the referral. This method works, but it takes a very long time! For a quicker alternative, check out this tutorial: https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangeBrew/comments/3dnd3n/zieglernichols_pid_tuning/

Check out this information on reporting bugs: https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangeBrew/wiki/bugs FWIW, I've had the opposite experience with change gauge sizes. They only update after a restart. Buttons are working for me in Safari (both OSX and iOS) I wonder if you have some browser-specific...

FYI - that's because it was my personal service script that I contributed to the repository. If using the Beaglebone Black Debian image, 8080 is the default apache port... in order to avoid the port conflict it was just easier for me to specify a different port for SBE in the service script. A...

You also have the options of display the probes in a smaller sizes now (as of a month ago or so)

I had such difficulty getting a stupid little usb wifi dongle to work on my beaglebone... I gave up and went wired :)

Good to know! Curious if you've come across any specific usability issues which could make it more touchscreen friendly

You could theoretically set up an ad hoc network between the pi and an external laptop (either wired or wireless)... rather than being tied to your brewery having network connectivity... which is understandably a concern of yours if you are mobile. I don't know of anybody using a touchscreen...

I believe that is what others do

I think the Debian init.d script should work for you

Yes, there is surely to be some heat loss from the HLT to Mash in a HERMS set up. 1-3F is typical and will depend on ambient temperate and whatnot. You can also try to tune your PID with respect to your mash tun. For this to work well you need to have very consistent recirculation conditions...

The killer of getting a fast acting PID tuning with this method is dead time. What was your deadtime? You could just up your P to around 30 or so... I have stopped recommending people to use this tuning method. It takes a very long time to do and the resulting tunings I don't think are as...

If the heat sinks are externally mounted I really don't think you'll ever run into problems unless you have a straight up faulty SSR. Definitely a good idea to place a temp sensor between them or something just in case. I'll be taking this approach when I redo my panel in the near future

This should probably be in it's own thread or something... but yes that is what I mean. More specifically: -Use a 2-way switch to activate the coil of a master power relay (30a+ DPDT) -Use a 2-way switch to turn the raspberry pi on/off (bypass the master power relay for this circuit) -Use...

I think you're better off just using a single DPDT master power relay for both hots. If you want you can make your raspberry pi bypass this master power relay and have it's own switch.

That's a lot of energy moving through the element selector switch. I'd either use a relay there (what I did originally), or just use the element selection switch on the GPIO lines (what I do now).

Good catch. I used 10G entirely for the element circuits. The terminal block is only used for my lower amperage circuits... I used 10G mostly in those, but as you seen, there's some 14G in there. Yes, it negates my use of the 10G, but it wasn't necessary in the first place. The 14G jumpers...

I don't think it should be a problem as long as the SSRs are running well below what they are rated for. That being said, a fan is not a bad idea... Sometimes a single large heat sink is used for several SSRs, so the heat sinks being next to one another or touching I believe to be a none issue.

I ordered one and still have it on hand from when I was planning the build... I never needed it though. The SSRs have been nothing but reliable.

I have now completed a (first draft) walkthrough of the hardware set up for a Strangebrew elsinore powered brewery here: http://www.reddit.com/r/StrangeBrew/wiki/hardware There may be some other wiki articles that interest you here (not all have been completed)...

No specific troubleshooting guide. Happy to add a troubleshooting section to the reddit wiki thing. Will need some authors to flesh it out though ;) the default configuration file is elsinore.cfg and is in the main elsinore directory. If nothing else is working for you, you can remove that...