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An article about my simple BrewPi Spark control-box project

Post #1 made 9 years ago
by rvoith
For those who are interested I have completed an article on my blog Bobs Bittelille Bryggeri (="Bobs SuperSmall Brewery"). It is in Norwegian, but has some photos for illustration. Since a picture tells more than 1000 words (:-)), I hope that there might be something of interest for non-Norwegians too. You find the article here: http://www.bobsbittelillebryggeri.no/we ... ControlBox

If you run it through Google Translate, you might even get an idea of what it says :-) Note that "Paint basket" is "Mesh basket" :-)
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An article about my simple BrewPi Spark control-box project

Post #2 made 9 years ago
by Lumpy5oh
I haven't been able to read all the way thru the link yet but I have been following the brewpi thread over on HBT with the intention of building one of these. I love how the pi is able to learn your system and keep fermentations at a precise temperature.
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=466106
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Post #4 made 9 years ago
by thughes
I don't speak the language but the pics are great. One question though: Is it really a good idea to have the pi electronics so close to the relays? Seems there might be the possibility for EMI issues?

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Post #6 made 9 years ago
by thughes
rvoith wrote:Thughed - hmmm, prehaps not! What could be the (perhaps soon surfacing) problems?


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Not sure if there would be any problems given that you are using solid state relays, I guess electro-magnetic interference caused by the relays wouldn't be a problem unless you were using old-fashioned "contactor" relays (which use electromagnets). Seeing as though EMI probably won't be an issue, the only other concern I can think of might be heat. I see you have the relays mounted on heat sinks but the sinks are inside the enclosure, do you have a fan and vent holes that I am not seeing or do the heat sinks actually extend through the wall of the enclosure so they can get some air circulation? I only have one relay but ended up going with the large external heatsink in the picture in order to keep things cool.
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Post #8 made 9 years ago
by rvoith
thughes - Thanks for your thoughts. I agree that it would be (much) better to have the heatsink outside. joshua - thanks for your links! The control box look fantastic! By the way - for monitoring purposes and security, I do have a temperature sensor inside the box. I was very uncertain about the what amount of heat the Raspberry Pi and/or SSRs would generate. So far it is stable on the 27 degrees Celcius with the load of an ordinary oven.
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