Funny. No, I haven't dumped you folks. I've just been in roaster hobby isolation for awhile. I'm way overdue for Part 2. Finished about 2/3rds of it and I should be using the lockdown to finish it up. Is there any immediate question I can answer? My PID setup has been rock solids for many

Although both are roasters, their product conceptualization of is quite different and target different customers: The Coromant is effectively an old-school manual drum roaster, focussing on solid materials, lack of proprietary hardware and hence self-maintainable if something were to happen to owner...

Gary, keep in mind when we got our roasters, there wasn't much distinction between the gas and electrical versions ( if I recall, the electrical versions where the first one's they built), and amusingly, North keep a lot of the high current circuitry intact meant for the electrical version but made ...

To be clear, these questions were directed for the OP to answer, and I do disagree with your suppositions and most of your assertions, namely to not use PID for "this kind of process", which I infer to mean "roasting". It may be in your circumstance that you've come to that conclusion, but I've been...

Tells more about your PID setup: * What shield are you using to transduce temperature? * Where is the PID processing happing - in Artisan or onboard circuitry (i.e. TC4) * How are your ET and BT probes setup? * Are you using ET or BT for SV? * What

Chris, once you get this puppy up and running and become comfortable with profiling on it, let's have a local group meet-up at my place so we can do a roast-off with my automated North 1K (same capacity but two very different takes on the product). I've eyeballed the roaster as SM, but would like to...

Wonder if Denis will ever provide an upgrade kit for those with the clamp lock

* Time using RDT is short-lived. * Using WDT depends on bean/roast choice and level. * Adjuster clamp is somewhat tedious. But this is obviated with new design. * Don't worry about looser grind setting at first. This too is short lived once burrs are broken in. * Grind speed

Interesting. In the early Monolith days, the conicals would go first before the Flats. What's changed?

"I believe this was the second Mono production pre-order run back in October 2016.". It actually took several days before "demand" stock ran out! I recall mulling over a couple days as which grinder to get, watching the stock drop (it was a race in the thread) and biting my fingernails before snaggi...