BCS Roadmap
Re: BCS Roadmap
measure the volume of water in your HLT.
Re: BCS Roadmap
A diagram building tool would be nice. List of components. Somewhere you could enter your components and it assist you in building a wiring diagram. Ex list or chose from a drop down box your components BCS-460, 4 probes, 2 pumps, 2 Honeywells, and it assist in building a control box diagram.
Re: BCS Roadmap
an analog voltage input would be incredibly useful and could be used to measure volume with an analog pressure transducer! also a faster carrier frequency on the PWM out so an analog out could be simulated with a simple RC network!
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Re: BCS Roadmap
how do I know my bcs 460 is uptodate. and how I download upgrades
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last post here was 2012...and I am wondering what became of the volume sensor idea?
Thre are other threads with really great ideas, but haven't been followed up on (in the forum) as far as overall viability - namely
http://forum.embeddedcc.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1102
where the OP tried tricking a temp input to reading volume.
and
http://forum.embeddedcc.com/viewtopic.p ... olume+sens or#p6941
Here, the OP uses an arduino build to program setpoint and sense volume, and then use a DIN on the bcs to integrate the reading into process control.
I would personally prefer to have the readout integrated into the BCS. On the other hand, I would be very, very excited to just have an accurate reading, especially in vessels with no sight glass (i.e. stainless fermentor).
For those whose argument is cost - I wouldn't mind dropping on an EXTRA piece of hardware, or even builiding it myself from a how-to, as long as the BCS's programming is in place to make use of said hardware. i.e. the external PID display boards. I have 4 of them and love them.
Sorry for the ramble, all I really wanted to ask was whether the idea of volume sensing with the BCS was dead. several posts back (nov. 2011), this was the priority
I have had my stystem complete and running beautifully for a year. I am going to play around with the HMI finally this summer to make it even better - so many thanks for all the work that went into this over the last couple years.
Thre are other threads with really great ideas, but haven't been followed up on (in the forum) as far as overall viability - namely
http://forum.embeddedcc.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1102
where the OP tried tricking a temp input to reading volume.
and
http://forum.embeddedcc.com/viewtopic.p ... olume+sens or#p6941
Here, the OP uses an arduino build to program setpoint and sense volume, and then use a DIN on the bcs to integrate the reading into process control.
I would personally prefer to have the readout integrated into the BCS. On the other hand, I would be very, very excited to just have an accurate reading, especially in vessels with no sight glass (i.e. stainless fermentor).
For those whose argument is cost - I wouldn't mind dropping on an EXTRA piece of hardware, or even builiding it myself from a how-to, as long as the BCS's programming is in place to make use of said hardware. i.e. the external PID display boards. I have 4 of them and love them.
Sorry for the ramble, all I really wanted to ask was whether the idea of volume sensing with the BCS was dead. several posts back (nov. 2011), this was the priority
I have had my stystem complete and running beautifully for a year. I am going to play around with the HMI finally this summer to make it even better - so many thanks for all the work that went into this over the last couple years.