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  1. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    Think BC can run on Windows 10 IOT Enterprise? Say on a Wyse 5070?
  2. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    I expect to calibrate like a normal pH meter, and am using it for trending like I use a Tilt... I want to see a crash or rapid decline in pH, sometimes the rum wash will do that, and once you let it get momentum, the wash will plummet below 3.0 and is ruined, it would cost more money in...
  3. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    thoughts on using this with a 3/4" TC adapter for pH readings during the ferment of my Rum wash to see a trend and notify me to add some Calcium Hydroxide to keep it above 4.5? Going to try to have a local cellphone store add a wire to the 8285 chip on one of my SonOff Duals I have in place for...
  4. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    As a thought exercise, boiling is evaporation (violent evaporation, more correctly). If you wanted to use PID for to control the 'strength' of the boil, you would place a thermometer probe above the boil where the vapor would hit it, and shoot for a temperature, but it would have to be placed...
  5. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    If you did both of those tied to the same little bit of thermal mass, the blue thermistor would show twice the resolution. I think the smoothness is the thermal mass difference between the two
  6. clearwaterbrewer

    Homemade PBW Recipe

    Thanks for this reply existing... I read the entire thread since I had not made this in a few years and wanted to use bulk chemical company products (bell chem) for some of it. I did not see a spreadsheet anywhere, so I made one for bulk chemicals with 7th gen added My spreadsheet is shared...
  7. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    Centrifugal pumps work best by throttling output with a valve. I personally use a proportional valve and a BC analog amplifier powered by a PID output in BC and then the valve has feedback which I tie to an analog input with resistor voltage divider. I also set up a manual control by programming...
  8. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    This matches perfectly with what I see on my 1-wire, I am not sure if the extra bit is worth your effort at this time, but if someone makes a 14-bit 1-wire in the future, I will be extremely interested...
  9. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    all of my probes, no matter the price were pretty close to each other, it was the boards that were off, including the adafruit... I posted this a while back...
  10. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    In my application, a commercial distillery, a tenth of a degree actually means the difference in proof of alcohol vapor being 190 proof or not, which is a legal requirement through the process of distillation of neutral spirit. This temperature is 172.94 according to science, higher than that...
  11. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    I understand accuracy and resolution.. I do have an electrical engineering degree... I am solely worried about resolution here, as accuracy depends on individual components. If I mentioned 'accuracy'(I do not think I did), I apologize. My 1-wire probes right now on my live system have a...
  12. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    no, I have not looked at lookup tables... manually editing tens or hundreds of values for each thermometer probe sounds daunting... YES, spikes(dropouts actually) are a hardware problem, but they exist in every form of communication, can you imagine the uproar if Netflix shut off your show...
  13. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    according to the docs, RTD is 12 bit, and that is only that one bit different, and RTD is for sure good enough for mash temps, not sure what is actually going on inside BC, but I got MUCH better resolution than 0.9F, my 'steps' were 0.13 degrees F, and RTD was 0.06 degrees F, which makes...
  14. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    RTD's - Pros: accurate Cons: They are not (cannot be) calibrated from the factory, calibrating BruControl to them is more difficult that it seems like it should be. They have downward spikes that makes triggering difficult without writing intermediary scripts. 1-Wire - Pros: Easy to...
  15. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    I still believe software is also good 'last resort' to handle the spikes, or drop-outs... I am not in a rush to have it implemented, but it would be nice to add someday, throw out values that are way, way off using a well-accepted math formula...
  16. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    wouldn't the Huzzah32 just work with the existing ESP32 firmware?
  17. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    ESP32 can be updated without connecting it to USB on a PC.. Over the air updates are awesome, and it is is snappier than the 8266/8255
  18. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    fitting 4 10ga conductors and ground in the housing is a bit tight, and I have had one short one time, so extra care, and willingness to cut off ends and start over to get lengths 'just right' is needed... and you cannot use an off-the shelf plug and receptacle, it has to be hard wired.
  19. clearwaterbrewer

    BruControl: Brewery control & automation software

    If you run the star delta connection on a 12kw element, your element will run at ~3.6Kw (you will have LOW watt density) I run the delta configuration. First, I think you should consult an electrician familiar with three phase... To get 2 elements without powering the 3rd element one has to...
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