On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 12:41 -0600, John Thornton wrote:
> On the PC side of the control would be the smarts to control 
> temperatures and have various recipes for different temperature profiles.
> 
> These scenarios are common when smoking
> 
> Control the cabinet temperature only.
> Control the cabinet temperature and when the internal temperature of the 
> meat reaches a point change the cabinet temperature to the internal 
> temperature just to maintain internal temperature and sound the general 
> alarm!
> Control the cabinet temperature and ramp from one temp to the next over 
> a given time span.
> Have recipe controlled time and temperatures.
... snip
> 
> It doesn't have to be fast, just be able to get the temperature info to 
> the PC and be able to switch on and off some SSR's.
> 
> John

One thought I had was to use HAL and pvVCP/GladeVCP similar to a DRO
which could do the logic, temperature scripting and such, but then you
need to get the temperature information in. You would need an analog
input. Since you don't really need real-time, you might be able to use
USB and this USB datalogger I found last week:
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9147 
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/AVR/data_logging_avr.png 
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/AVR/dcp_6935-1a.jpg 
(the lower board, upper board is for something else)

It comes assembled and programmed. You need to connect a temperature
sensor and signal conditioning (make an analog signal of 0 to +5V). I'm
not sure what would happen if you plug more than one of these in.

Another option is an SPI ADC:
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/EMC2/serial_adc/ 

-- 
Kirk Wallace
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/
http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html
California, USA


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