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After several years, I've retired my Arduino legacy BrewPi and upgraded to the Spark. BrewPi's setup documentation seems to have gotten no better. Does anyone know of a good setup description for the Spark that's as helpful as FuzzeWuzze's for the Arduino version?

Thanks @bscuderi and @day_trippr. I do 5 gallon batches and I think my upright freezer is 14 cu. ft. I'm using a thermowell. I asked Elco on the BrewPi forum and he told me to reduce Ki to 0.1 and that helped bring it within about 0.1 deg C variation. He also acknowledged that it may be due to a...

Thanks, I'll try playing with my heater. I use a paint can with a 60W incandescent bulb. Maybe I'll try a lower wattage bulb. Getting harder to find these days :-\.

I've noticed in my last few batches that once fermentation nears completion the temperature starts to swing. It's not a huge swing initially (+/- 0.3 deg C) but gets worse as time goes on. I'm still in a constant hold at 20 deg C, not a ramp. Here are my settings. I am running legacy branch...

Thank you. Swapping the heater and freezer fixed the problem. Now the outlet that had only 56V measures 120V and runs the heater just fine. The other outlet runs the freezer. Wish I could understand why this simple adjustment fixed the problem. I really need to take an electrical class! As for...

Been using my legacy BrewPi for about two years now with great results. Recently, my freezer stopped turning on when the SSR would activate. I found that the outlet to the freezer was only measuring 56V while the outlet to the heater was measuring a solid 120V. My first thought that it might be...

Yeah, what about those neoprene jackets? I've been waiting on that to use my CF10. I see a lot of excitement on Spike's photo stream about their new facilities, but let's get that jacket out the door!

Will the neoprene jacket come soon? Please? ;)

Is Spike still including a metallurgical report with their products? With all this talk of Chinese stainless steel, I'm worried that they may be mixing in less nickel and chromium leading to a lower quality product.

First off, thanks to FuzzeWuzze, Prymal, and all the others on this thread for putting this information out there. I'm a total newbie to RPi/Arduino. I haven't used the command line since I was a kid playing with 386 computers and haven't ever programmed anything. You made this process extremely...