PID settings for induction mashing

Hardware
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Hello there!

I am brewing on a “classical” 20-30 litre 3-pot self-built homebrew setup. I’m using a 3500W Hendi induction plate for mashing and boiling. I’d like to automate the mashing (there’s a onewire temp probe in the mashtun and a SSR switching the induction plate).

Does anyone have experience with a similar setup? I’m not sure what settings to use, especially the switching intervals for the induction plate. I don’t want to break it by switching it on and off too often and I’m also not sure if it needs a certain “on”-time to actually have any effect.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
(And if you live in or around Utrecht, NL, feel free to drop by and pick up a beer!)

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Does the induction plate requires button presses after you plug it in? It it does, that’s your first thing to tackle, because the SSR just interrupts power.

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The induction plate has a manual power selection knob so it can be switched by the SSR (that’s why I bought it).

See the discussion in Discord. :wink:

I’ll post a summary of that when I’ve got some results so people can read up on it here. :slight_smile: