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Read the 'Before getting started' section of the link you posted. You're getting too much air 'naturally' (not fan-pushed) to control the grill at the temp you want to run at. A piece of duct tape or a ball of aluminum foil will fix your $200+ electronic control system :) The stock fan is big...

If all the dips are due to you peeking, 1, peek less & 2, manually activate lid open mode before you peek. The PID control needs time & data to cancel out the natural fluctuations of the system. Garbage in, garbage out. You're causing the PID to react to what it thinks is a natural...

1. If you peek, it makes a big change in temp that the HM will try to recover. If it starts adding air & the pit can recover naturally, you get a big overshoot. You need to either make your lid detect more sensitive, or manually set lid open mode when you peek. That gives the PID time to...

Your I & D = 0 is also affecting overshoot. They are the 'predict the future' terms of the PID. Even with P=1, you're adding air until you reach setpoint, which is too late to NOT overshoot. You need some D to calculate the rate of temp climb, and reduce the input accordingly. I keeps a...

My cheap meter does better lighting up LEDs than my better one. $6 for the tweezer probes on amazon. 5x magnification is useless to see the line on LEDs..... I agree they don't save that much space for the PITA they can be. Next project I do, I need to come up with something to pick them from...

When soldering 0603 Diodes/LEDs, I use a multimter with pincer/tweezer probes to confirm I'm putting it in the correct direction (Diode test mode will light up the LED if you have it right). Wish I had pincer probes with needle-tips, I have to put the diode down, grab tweezers, then try not to...

I just got a Pi2 for RasPlex & it absolutely blows the B+ away for that. Menu nav is smoooth, no pauses on my 900+ movie library. Goodbye BoxeeBoxes.

look for a setting called 'NAT loopback' & make sure it's enabled (in your router). I had almost the opposite problem. I could access from no-ip.com address from OUTSIDE the network, but not from within the LAN (had to use local IP). My ISP provided modem/router didn't have NAT loopback...

Anybody use Simplify3d? Worth the $150? While my $400 printer has it's limitations, most of the screwups I deal with are slicer & support related (bridges ending in thin air, small pillars that get knocked over, etc). Being able to edit each layer before Gcode creation sounds like a fix for...

You can go either way, but you have to choose 1. Pre 4.1, there was no thermocouple support. It's an evolution, but it's more expensive & requires SMD (itty bitty pieces) soldering. The 'ruined by water' part of the Maverick probes can't be stressed enough. Buy spares.

I've got a Vbox VM with 10 running 1 core (3.5Ghz) & 2GB RAM & it's more than usable. Maxes the processor out at times, but you'll have that. 3 cores/4GB feels like bare metal. Surface Pro 4 + Win10 will likely be in my future. Sticking with Win7 till then. 8 Runs fine, but is a pain in the...

Heatermeter uses the same 'brain' as the Uno....You can use the mcp from the Uno to save all of $4-5....swap it back & forth if you wish. The 'stuff' you don't think you need is all the support circuitry that the Uno builds in (power supply, USB, etc). Some will work with the HM, but you'll...

Another vote for AEIOU & sometimes Y, err Aoyue. They're cheap & they work. I have 2, needed the hot-air rework to fix a PCB error so I bought one for the office (don't look at a bottom view on a datasheet & draw a top-view footprint, DOH).

Maybe unrelated, but about a year and a half ago, sandisk had a bunch of problems. I got 2. Class 10 MicroSD that crapped out after a couple weeks. I could format & write to them, but after a bit they would show as unformatted. It wasn't a problem to get them replaced. It didn't happen if I...

Had the Da Vinci for a bit over a week. 1st print was a HM 4.0 Case, stock software & the cartridge that came with it. It was OK, print quality was a bit off. Tried the hacked XYZ software, couldnt get it to work. Flashed Repetier (luc-repetier beta 2 .bin release) scratched glass because...

This is normal, default config for the HM is for the wifi to be in AP mode. You're connected to the HM as if it was your internet router (meaning the default wifi is working correctly on the HM, but it doesn't have internet connection, and shouldn't). Your computer is NOT connected to your...

My PCB projects haven't been complex enough to NOT use the autorouter (Freerouter on-line tool for KiCAD). But routing is an art more than a science. I consider it to be a black art. I get frustrated easily, try the autorouter & poof, it's done. If you're having trouble with Eagle, you might...

The Da Vinci 1.0 has just been discounted to $399 on Amazon. Too good to pass up at that price. Glad I waited, but wish I hadn't just bought carpet, 2 rooms of furniture, a TV & the wife's xmas present, a vacuum (yes, I'm a romantic)...... Oh well, what's another $400 to make my HM look nice?

Check the Sous Vide thread (likely on 2nd or 3rd page) for ideas for adding a SSR - the HM already supports it.

Beer fridge nearby?