Can't help with most of this, but the paste is a heat transfer paste that came with the relay and PID kit. I don't think dilectric would necessarily be a good substitute.
Todd may chime in on a good replacement that could come from the hardware store. best, bmc Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2016, at 10:55, William Boshuck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I ordered and replaced the SSR and the > situation seems to be resolved. Around > the base of the original SSR was some > grease - dielectric grease I would guess. > Is there anything special I should replace > it with, or will generic dielectric grease do? > > Thanks for the info, Dave. I had supposed > the SSR functions as a switch. As expected, > the brew boiler heats if T1/L1 is shorted. > > Instead, I was wondering about the mode of > failure of the SSR. I don't know the internal > composition of the device. For a while, the > heating/not heating of the brew boiler was > sporadic. When the machine sat for a long > time, on power up the brew boiler received > voltage for a while, now and then long enough > to reach brew temperature. Once the voltage > stopped going to the brew boiler it would not > come back until the machine had sat for a > long while. If I had to guess, I would guess that > the relay would function until it had warmed up > a certain amount, or had been so warm for a > bit. But this is a very blind guess. Does this > sound reasonable to someone who is familiar > with the device? > > Also, out of curiosity, any thoughts about what > might bring about the failure of the relay? > > Thanks very much to everyone for the helpful > input. > > cheers, > -wb > -- > 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.
