hey everyone i hope you guys can help me figure this out. i have a single Auber Pid with an Auber 40amp SSR control panel that i built using a diagram from PJ. please let me prefix everything by saying i am not an electrician and am novice at best when it come to electrical stuff. I finally got my keggles together and i went to test out the pid using some plain water and during the test it appeared that the heating elements would not kick on. In my attempt to run auto tune the Pid just kept flashing AT and the temp for a good 10 minutes. when i tried to boil in manuel mode i got nothing but i did notice the out led blink. I'm not sure if it should be blinking or if it should just stay solid because this is my first time attempting to run the pid. i checked the power to the receptacles in the back of my control box and they appear to be receiving power. in checking this i am not using a multimeter I'm just using one of those cheapo meters that you stick the two probes in and a light shines if there is power. Could it be my PID settings?
My Auber PID settings
ALM1 = 1000
ALM2 = 0
Hy-1 = 9999
Hy-2 = 9999
Hy = 0.3
At = 3
I = 1000
P = 500
d = 120
t = 2
SN = 21
dp = 0
P-SL = -100
P-SH = 2500
pb = 0
OP-A = 0
OUTL = 0
OUTH = 100
AL-P = 17
Cool = 10
Addr = 1
bAud = 9600
Filt = 5
A-M = 0
lock = 808
Ep1 - Ep8 = none
one thing that i noticed is that when i checked the connections to the elements to see if they were receiving power from the control (i am using 3 wire dryer cords) is that when i touched the two hots with the prongs i got no light i had to touch one prong to one hot and the other prong to the ground wire.
another thing that i noticed in the past is when i originally powered my pid up once the control panel was done is that the ssr light never came on.
what steps should i take to ensure everything is correct?
the diagram i used
My Auber PID settings
ALM1 = 1000
ALM2 = 0
Hy-1 = 9999
Hy-2 = 9999
Hy = 0.3
At = 3
I = 1000
P = 500
d = 120
t = 2
SN = 21
dp = 0
P-SL = -100
P-SH = 2500
pb = 0
OP-A = 0
OUTL = 0
OUTH = 100
AL-P = 17
Cool = 10
Addr = 1
bAud = 9600
Filt = 5
A-M = 0
lock = 808
Ep1 - Ep8 = none
one thing that i noticed is that when i checked the connections to the elements to see if they were receiving power from the control (i am using 3 wire dryer cords) is that when i touched the two hots with the prongs i got no light i had to touch one prong to one hot and the other prong to the ground wire.
another thing that i noticed in the past is when i originally powered my pid up once the control panel was done is that the ssr light never came on.
what steps should i take to ensure everything is correct?
the diagram i used