STC-1000+ Project

[Garry]

There's a buachaill on JBK selling a few V1.0 STC-1000's at the moment.

http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=67702

[bigvalen]

Wooohoo, grabbed one!

[johnrm]

I just flashed 2 of them using Brians Arduino.
Pretty simple, the soldering is the only slow bit.

Anyone in Cork need this doing?

@Taf, yours is flashed.

[Will_D]

Hey ho Well Done!!

You know there is also a mash PId version ( reason for the small d is there's no derivative control in the PID algorithm!)

Am about to flash one up and see!

[johnrm]

Have you a link for this? Same chap?

[Will_D]

Its on Mats' Github page:

But slightly hiden in the work area:

https://github.com/matsstaff/stc1000pi/tree/work

[johnrm]

Cool.

[bigvalen]

For the ignorant, how would that work? Some sort of inline chiller / heater and a pump, doing the recirculation ?

[LordEoin]

1 hit, 1 miss.
Looks like I'm buying an arduino.

[johnrm]

I had a look at the PI project, pretty cool of it gets up and running. Using the hot side to heat and the cold side to pump, clever!

[neoanto]

Lads,

Is there anywhere to reliably get the v1.0 stc-1000?
I picked up an arduino and then when I went through the process of flashing my stc i realised i didnt have the right version.

[LordEoin]

not really. unless you buy them from someone who knows the difference or you get to look at it first to check

[neoanto]

Thats a pity, it does seem like random pick n mix.
Its not really worth buying a bunch and hoping to get the right one.

[LordEoin]

well, buy one and expect it to be an STC1000 and nothing more.
if it turns out to be a flashable version then... bonus

[neoanto]

So doing a bit more research, it seems there are alternative routes to getting similar results.
Over on the HBT forum someone found out that with an old pc or with a raspberry pi and an arduino you can basically get the same setup.

I dont know what the story is here with linking to other forums, but I'll thow up the link and the mods can delete my post if needed.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f258/howto-make-brewpi-fermentation-controller-cheap-466106/