Maybe an anomaly, but probably temp sensor and/or PID controller--my money is on the PID. b
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 20, 2016, at 10:01, [email protected] wrote: > > 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] 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 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]. >>> 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
