Monday, January 4, 2010

Fresh Roast test


I had to work out a couple of bugs in the programing, but Its getting better. This is an image saved from the latest roast. Its a FreshRoast which is a small fluid bed roaster, so the roast is short. The probes were placed perfectly to get an accurate read on the temp. This has proven difficult with a fluid bed roaster, which blows hot air at a high speed, thus giving some random temp readings.

As you can see, I was able to record the cooling period as well. I saved the time the heat was shut off, but allowed the graph to continue to monitor the process. It was not until he fan shut off that I clicked the "stop" key, ending the graphing/roasting sequence.