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Permalink Reply by Jason Shipley on June 9, 2009 at 11:34am

With the help of Omega Engineering I have put a new PID Control panel in my roaster. It has given us much greater control of our roast profiling and what we learned while roasting completely by hand for the last month is invaluable. We are very excited and really feel this is a big step up in quality and consistency. The best part is I did it for less than $400 in parts.

Omega

Permalink Reply by Stephen Curtis on July 2, 2009 at 3:54pm

Hey Jason,
Did you explore being able to log your data (temp/time)? Perhaps you are not set up for this. I am also curious about adding this after-the-fact. I am assuming that you have to manually set the temp on the control box (thus not able to 'save' a temp profile)?

Jason Shipley said:

With the help of Omega Engineering I have put a new PID Control panel in my roaster. It has given us much greater control of our roast profiling and what we learned while roasting completely by hand for the last month is invaluable. We are very excited and really feel this is a big step up in quality and consistency. The best part is I did it for less than $400 in parts.

Omega

Permalink Reply by Jason Shipley on July 3, 2009 at 9:46am

I will be installing a data logger from omega they have a few different ways to go, I will run the data logger off a second thermal probe and it will just be a secondary system. It should be about $600 in parts and they have a logger that you can access via wifi.

Permalink Reply by Stephen Curtis on July 3, 2009 at 11:25am

Awesome, thank you for the info! Let me know how you like it!

Jason Shipley said:

I will be installing a data logger from omega they have a few different ways to go, I will run the data logger off a second thermal probe and it will just be a secondary system. It should be about $600 in parts and they have a logger that you can access via wifi.

Permalink Reply by Zechariah White on November 17, 2009 at 7:52am

I'm interested in as detailed a breakdown of this system as you're willing to provide, Jason.

Jason Shipley said:

With the help of Omega Engineering I have put a new PID Control panel in my roaster. It has given us much greater control of our roast profiling and what we learned while roasting completely by hand for the last month is invaluable. We are very excited and really feel this is a big step up in quality and consistency. The best part is I did it for less than $400 in parts.

Omega