Timeline for Does anyone know how to make a Sous Vide style cooking vessel?
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| May 25, 2015 at 12:04 | comment | added | Joe | My former roommate got the PID controller kit from AdaFruit ... but he said after his first test, it took a LONG time to come up to temp (almost 2 hrs) and the lack of a circulation pump made it prone to wide temp swings (he thinks it was getting better as it learned as it went, but it didn't seem to save between runs, so it would have to re-learn each time ... this might be fixable in software). | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:52 | comment | added | Joe | I was wrong about it being radio ... x10 uses pulses along the mains. There are USB adaptors that can be used on Arduino : arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/x10 . It's possible that there might be other home automation stuff that works similarly. (A former roommate had some X10 stuff ~15 years ago, so that's what came to mind ... ZigBee and Z-Wave are newer and there might be others. The important thing is to get an 'appliance' not a 'lamp' or 'lighting' module for higher wattages. (although if you can find a lamp module rated for your cooker, it might be dimmable, allowing better precision) | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 12:07 | comment | added | rumtscho♦ | @Joe Very good idea, it sounds like a nice alternative to the traditional optocoupler circuits. Does the module you are speaking of contain both an emitter and receiver unit, or do you have to add radio signal emitting capability to your controller by using an Arduino shield or similar? | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 11:48 | comment | added | Joe | The good news is that the US only uses 110/120V ... which hurts (I speak from experience), and still might kill you. But you can reduce the risk if you're willing to pay more by using an X10 appliance module (~$25)... so you just send a radio signal to turn it on & off. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 10:32 | history | answered | rumtscho♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |