Looks like I probably threw out a bunch of the plans. Most is in the thread. I'd be willing to help anyone out with what I have left, and a parts list.
So last night I tested it out. Only had one conical hooked up, and the reservoir only partly filled. Took several minutes to chill the reservoir bath and then started chilling the conical. My glycol has a blue tint in it. I did not see any leakage into the conical filled with water, nor from the conical itself! Did some work on last two lids. So far so good! Seems to be working and I couldn't be happier! Need to finish up the insulation and the last two conical lids and finally, the racking dip tubes.
Need to figure out how to get those really cool looking temp graphs going on!
One glitch so far.
I have the PID display modules installed. They are not getting data from the BCS. It seems that three connections need to be made: exp 0, exp 1, and also ground! Problem here is that the PID "ground" is really its 12VDC- and the BCS ground is not apparently a 12VDC-. For one thing, the BCS uses 6 VDC I think (could be 5). I had thought this was going to pose an issue for me long ago. I thought I could throw away the BCS wallwart power supply. And run it off the 12VDC supply in the control panel (which operates the driver board, and powers the PID display modules. I bought a pack of resistors (100k ohm, 1/4 watt) and was going to fashion a voltage reduction circuit from them to power the driver board, PID display, and also the BCS. I got a little breadboard that I was planning to use for this, but I can't seem to get an accurate voltage reading. Maybe I just buy a potentiometer and wire that up and adjust to the proper voltage. Does anybody know the max power consumption on the BCS so I can get the right sized pot?
Seems I might need to go trolling the BCS forums...
Might post a new thread about this...
TD
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