yep, over temp switched was tripped, I reset it now things seem to have come back to normal and temp is stable - the question is was this because of the temp sensor or because of the PID. I hope I won't have to find out soon ;)
bmc, thanks for the tip ! On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 8:42:01 AM UTC-7, bmacpiper wrote: > > Hoping your over temp switch on the brew boiler tripped. That would > explain no power to brew boiler. My guess is temp controller is the problem > since it would be the part to cut off the boiler at set temp. Reset the > over temp switch, turn on and watch brew temp; if it starts going high > again you've confirmed the cause of no power to the boiler. Not sure if > there's another way for us laymen to test temp controller except just > trading it out. Might ping Todd as well. > Best, > bmc > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 17, 2016, at 23:36, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > hey guys, > like the subject says, this morning I turned it on and an hour later I > found it showing 270F. (was set @ 199F) > reading was real, when pulling down on the lever steam would come out of > the group head. > Anyways, I turned it off then turned it back on, then it never reached > nominal again. After it cooled down I opened it and it looks like only the > steam boiler is heating up. Unfortunately my multimeter is dead (I can only > measure resistance not voltage) and I could only measure that both heating > elements have the same resistance (about 14 or 16 ohms) so they're prob. > both ok. I ordered another multimeter and when I get it I'll try to follow > the measurement tips from the WLL video > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIiLeRdVWAU> unless somebody saw this > happening before and can point me what the problem was in their case ;) > > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > . > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
