Bingo! Beer saved. Cheers!
Kal
so i just did a factory reset on the pid, entered applicable parameters and fired up a 7 gal water batch. thing works like a charm. i was having a separate problem with the temp no longer reading correctly on that pid but since i was just running duty cycle, didn't care that much. factory reset fixed that problem too. it has been literally years since i touched any settings on that pid so chalk it up to gremlins.