Autotune Help Please

[ace0005]

I'm sure this has been covered at nauseum, but when one autotunes their electric brewery brew panel Love Controls Series 16C mash PID, everyone says it should be done on brew day....

1) Does this mean that it should this be done while the mash is recirculating before my mash time starts?
2) Does this need to be done every brew day?

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[doug293cz]

Temps overshoot during autotuning (it's part of the process) so I wouldn't do it on a real mash that you care about. Once you've done it, you shouldn't need to do it again, unless you do very different mash volumes. In that case, you can auto tune for the different volumes, and write the P, I and D parameters for each volume down so you can manually reset them as needed, rather than rerunning autotune.

Brew on

 

[ace0005]

Temps overshoot during autotuning (it's part of the process) so I wouldn't do it on a real mash that you care about. Once you've done it, you shouldn't need to do it again, unless you do very different mash volumes. In that case, you can auto tune for the different volumes, and write the P, I and D parameters for each volume down so you can manually reset them as needed, rather than rerunning autotune.

Brew on

That’s great advice, thank you!