This is a quote from page 1 of this thread.. and there was a picture of his controller, if one is to call it so in the video, of the PID feeding into an SSR or something like it..charcoal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:07 pm First set this PID to 65C. This is based on the video by George of Grain and Hops channel.
You will get some drops. Most of them would be very strong smelling (loaded with Methanol and Acetone?
I filled 380 ml from it. Temperaure stayed constant.
Then I set the temp to 75c. This is also basedon George's post.Temperaure stayed constant.I filled 2 litres as heads .
Then I changed temp to 78 and filled 3.8 litres finally. You can see the high ABV.
So if I read the statement properly, he set the PID temp to 65C, it feed the element power of some sort, because the element produced some warmth to create vapors.. then when that temp was reached it was readjusted to 75C and so on, then readjusted again to 78C..
If that is the case, then what is really happening is the PID is used as a potentiometer instead of a really one.. under those circumstances, yah, it will work but the ability to fine tune the power to the element is not there.. but that's not what a PID is design to do.. a potentiometer is a better design along with an amp meter..
I would interested in seeing a picture of the so call controller again.. and would be interested in seeing an amp meter reading at the element in relation to the PID temp numbers..
Mars