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they tasted good too mate :) I have been using a kettle BBQ that I got for $50 as a smoker for a while now, it's OK but I have plans to mod it and turn it into a Smokey Mountain Cooker. I have been playing around with just adding a little bit of wood to direct fired cooking and its amazing how...

nothing wrong with a good tarp

not really proper smoking but just cooked some steak on a kettle bbq, threw a handfull of dry hickory chip on for good measure makes $8/kg steak taste awsome :) cheers steve

been looking and a Xbee sheild and a RV-XV Wifly module and an antenna? should be able to work for the bonjuino you need to select " adruino Duemilanove w/ATmega328 cheers steve

Unfortunately not " On both boards, pin 10 is used to select the HDG104 and pin 4 for the SD card. These pins cannot be used for general I/O." the brauduino uses both these pins so it can't be used. I left pins 0 and 1 free which are the uart pins so maybe look for a wifi that talks on serial...

as glen pointed out SSR do leak current but pulsing every 1 second doesn't sound right and if it is doing it in auto and manual but not when the unit is in the startup screen would indicate that it is a code issue. It will not damage an element to be pulsed with a little bit of current but I...

Was this happening all the time or only when the unit was in auto mode? cheers steve

Thanks guys, its really good to have her home and she seems stoked to be here too. cheers stev

The latest code should fix that problem CODE, all the change was is to set the pumpRest boolean to false when stage 9 (boil) is entered. Awesome job Rob glad its working for you. cheers steve

10 weeks ago my little girl suffered a hypoglycemic seizure but today we are home and I'm having a homebrew, it's such a good feeling. she has suffered a brain injury and can't walk or talk but she has a long way to go and is getting better each and we hope that being at home will help her more...

void pump_rest (int stage) { if (stage==9){ pumpRest = false; if (Temp_c= 95)tempReached = true; } else{ pumptempError = stageTemp-Temp_c; if (pumptempError = 10)){ // pump rest digitalWrite(Pump,LOW); digitalWrite(Heat,LOW); pumpRest = true...

it could be done but using a k type thermocoupler or a pt100 rtd would require the use of one of the a/d converters and a good bit of electronics to condition the signal before it gets to the a/d converter like THIS, the reason for using ds18b20 is how simple it is to use being ditgial. looks...

changed the code so that when the boil is entered the pump rest flag is set to false CODE cheers steve

re design of the board to include rc suppression circuit and to move the relay further away from the LCD traces maybe? cheers steve

I had a quick look at the code and it looks like if the last stage finishes on a pump rest then the pump rest flag doesn't get reset and it will display 'pump rest' all the time so I'll have to change the code a bit to reset the pump rest flag in the boil stage. It should continue to do its...

Sounds like a glitch in the code I'll have a look at it tonight, glad the suppression seems to work Cheers Steve

The arduino seems very susceptible to noise, the noise is produced by the switch when switching an inductive load like a march pump. sheilding of the wire would not produce much of an effect. The way to reduce noise is to suppress the arc across the switch with a rc suppression network, also to...

I was a bit concerned about that but on my PIC based controller I didn't encouter it. Is it just the screen or is the arduino stopping as well. something like THIS should work but it is bulky, you can connect it across the load if need be. When I get the time I'll connect my march pump up and...

Glad it worked out for you Sammus, the switch sounds interesting can you post pics when you have time. cheers steve