OKay, I've been re-reading your posts, and I have a couple of questions relating to problems I had when I was building my PID. First, on the wiring diagram in the instructions, are you hooking it up reading the diagram from right (cord coming from wall or power source) to left (where the cord goes into the tower heating element)? Another problem I had when I checked the PID before plugging in to the smoker, just into the wall outlet, my wires were reversed on the Thermocouple...it came up with an ambient temp, but when I applied heat to the probe, the number on the top line went down.
I'm not sure why you're seeing the A100 in the SV line, but I don't have my manual here right now to look at it...I'll try to stop at home and grab it while I'm out for lunch.
I also had one more screwup, as I was so close to done, I wasn't paying close enough attention. I wired in 2 fuses, a 10 Amp for the whole setup, and another 1 Amp isolated to the PID Controller. In my rush, I put the 1A where the 10A should have gone, and vice versa. Worked fine until I was testing it using the smoker and the 1A fuse blew. Put them the way they should be and has worked fine since.
Oh, one other thing. When I autotuned, I let the smoker get to temperature and had an average load in it (average for me), then started the Autotune function. Also, aside from just bench testing and recording the values that were already in the PID's memory, I didn't change anything before starting the smoker and then autotuning once it got up to temp. Granted, I have the original, not the digital smoker.
I lied, just thought of another thing. As I am not familiar with the Digital, I can't actually tell you what to do here, but on my original, I have the temp selector set all the way as high as it will go. What do you have the tower side of your settings at?
Okay, I've written a lot, and I think I've even managed to confuse myself, so I'll stop here, get my manual, and try to help more this afternoon.
