After playing with the GS3 yesterday and discussing its grouphead heating configuration which is rock solid idle versus series of shots, thinking about E61 and it's design which will have overheated grouphead from idle then stable in series of shots and Silvia and other passively heated groupheads understanding finally occurred. It's not that the PID Silvia is unstable or "overheats" doing a series of shots, it just that passively heating the grouphead requires about 10 2oz pulls coming back up to temp between each pull to get the grouphead stabilized! Duh. Call me slow.
So it of course simply means if just pulling a single shot PID needs to be set differently than if planning to pull a half dozen back to back shots entertaining and when doing a bunch of back to back shots after resetting PID 8f lower than for an idle shot pull 10 2oz blanks before starting the series of real shots. Then those 6 or 10 or whatever back to back shots will be relatively intershot temp stable. It only took me almost 4 years with Miss Silvia for the lightbulb to turn on!
