Would suggest that, before you spend a lot of time & money putting a PID on the steam boiler, you just upgrade the element to a 2000w version. Pretty sure it will solve your steam issue and is very easy to do.
Am not even sure that putting a PID on the steam boiler will make much difference to the steam performance of the machine JohnB On 4 Jun 2015 01:17, "Pavlos Kyprizlis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > @sc00bs thanks for the feedback > > @ Bruce Keeler You misunderstood the functioning of the boilers. At > 220Volt there is steam boiler priority and this is not what you think. This > is a huge mistake of expobar in my opinion for 220 volts circuits. I am > very badly impressed you already needed 6 pressurstats. This is not good at > all.... You could change the original pressurstat with a Parker or Sirai > pressurstat that are high end products.... > About your question for the PID: Βy increasing the steam temperature at > the same time we increase the pressure. 0,9 bars are about 120 celsius and > 1,3 bars are about 126 celsius. So you forget the adjustment of the bars > and you go at further precise adjustments meaning you will know the exactly > temperature of the steam boiler. The more temperature inside the boiler the > more pressure inside the boiler. Also the PID has faster responsive from > the bad quality original presurstat. Also you need 2 ssr to control both > channels. > Sorry for my English but i left USA before 18 years... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Brewtus" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
