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I definitely agree with what BrunDog is saying about powering the RP3 boards off the Mega. I was having a ton of intermittent problems when I was running a Meanwell 5v power supply. I had verified voltage coming from the power supply and adjusted it as close as possible to the same voltage...

Below is how I got this to work. The InputPortID wants the actual PortID of the RTD element not the "name" new string "RTDID" "RTDID" = "NAME OF RTD" ID "PIDELEMENT" InputPortID = "RTDID" Substituting the actual name of your RTD device you want to use for "NAME OF RTD" and the actual name of...

Thank you to everyone for the advice on the boil. Between using the PID to start with rather than the duty cycle and not have a realist expectation of what the boil should look like with the element inside the kettle rather than a pot on a stove or burner, I think everything is good. I did...

I may be ok then. This is my first foray into electric and I am used to gas burner and a much more aggressive boil. There is definite turbulence where the element is, not individual bubble coming off the element like when at mash or strike temp. Just not as aggressive as I was thinking it...

I looked in and I definitely see boil activity around the element itself but not around the sides of the kettle. It isn't what I would call a rolling or vigorous boil for the entire surface area in the kettle at all. I stand corrected on power. 118-120 for each leg. So 236-240 for both legs...

Thanks for the explanation BrunDog. That makes sense. I just tried to achieve a boil with Duty Cycle set at 100% and just letting it roll and monitoring temperature. No script, no altering just wanted to see if it would get there. I could still only reach 209. Could this have something to...

Thanks BrunDog. I will give that a try. So that I understand. Are you saying that there is something in the PID algorithm / process that would prevent it from reaching a temp past 209 degrees that the Duty Cycle control would allow?

I am having trouble reaching a boil with my new build. 15 gallon spike kettles with a 5500 watt element mounted in the kettle and controlled via BruControl. I have the element configured as PID control with a target temperature of 212 degrees. I used the default Kp, Ki, Kd, etc specified in...

Helibrewer, Good call. I only have the one brucfg file but if you have multiple or have renamed it then yes you would need to change the file name in the script to match as you have mentioned. I hadn't seen or tried multiple configurations before. Thanks for pointing this out. I can see a use...

If anyone is experimenting with the new SQL database and want an easy way to get a list of element names and their corresponding ID without having to search through the default.brucfg file I have put together a PowerShell script that generates a text file with the Element Name, ID, and Element...

Thanks. Wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Looking up the ID via the default.brucfg file worked fine

RiverCity, When you ran the script that BrunDog provided have you compared it against a SQL table name. I ran the script and got a unique ID but could not match it to a SQL table. When I looked at the default.brucfg file and compared the UID returned by the script was actually the PortID not...

No problem sir and I understand fully. All of the issues I was experiencing appear to be related to what I had set previously when I changed the Element Appearance settings to make the Default as. There appears to be two options that would have made it easier for me. 1. Make note of what I...

The text, alignment and gauges definitely seem to be the changes I made to the "default" Element Appearance Settings not carrying over. Anything that was modified away from default stayed as I had put it. But anything that was using Default got changed to the standard default. Same thing for...