Well when the Behmor's hit the scene I went down that path and skipped the whole Corretto journey but ive finally decided to give it a whirl with the view of increasing my roast sizes.
Ive been following DBC's (Matt) threads recently and must say the technical level of those threads with members openly sharing their tips, tricks and profiles is what has inspired me most to give this a go.
My brother had a BB280 kicking around under his sink so I took that off his hands, did the usual, pulled it apart and removed the element for the future wrapping of the loaf tin with a fire blanket, moved the temp sensor back to near the control panel wiring and drilled a 3mm hole for the temp probe.
Purchased a Bosch 660 2300W, didn't realise till I got home but it has 4 presets that can be dialled in with control over the temp/fan speed. So just a matter of hitting the P button to cycle through the presets.
I already had the CoffeeSnobs DMM.
So today I thought I would use some very old beans to get the process down before trashing any new beans, did 4 roasts and all turned out nice BUT I have a bit of work to do, just to get me started I followed one of Matt's profiles and forgot to take into consideration the higher wattage heatgun so I was getting there way too quick but I made adjustments on the third batch with the fan speed only, went a little too far, fourth roast decided to drop temps 10 degree's and fan speed by one segment, still getting there too quick so have some work to do dialling in the 13 minute FC.
Still getting my head around the software, forgot to change the file names and I think I was saving over the previous ones so I haven't got much to show unfortunately.
I must say though I am really enjoying the hands on approach, now to mount it all on a trolley instead of having the heatgun cable tied to the umbrella I was standing under.
cheers
Darren
Ive been following DBC's (Matt) threads recently and must say the technical level of those threads with members openly sharing their tips, tricks and profiles is what has inspired me most to give this a go.
My brother had a BB280 kicking around under his sink so I took that off his hands, did the usual, pulled it apart and removed the element for the future wrapping of the loaf tin with a fire blanket, moved the temp sensor back to near the control panel wiring and drilled a 3mm hole for the temp probe.
Purchased a Bosch 660 2300W, didn't realise till I got home but it has 4 presets that can be dialled in with control over the temp/fan speed. So just a matter of hitting the P button to cycle through the presets.
I already had the CoffeeSnobs DMM.
So today I thought I would use some very old beans to get the process down before trashing any new beans, did 4 roasts and all turned out nice BUT I have a bit of work to do, just to get me started I followed one of Matt's profiles and forgot to take into consideration the higher wattage heatgun so I was getting there way too quick but I made adjustments on the third batch with the fan speed only, went a little too far, fourth roast decided to drop temps 10 degree's and fan speed by one segment, still getting there too quick so have some work to do dialling in the 13 minute FC.
Still getting my head around the software, forgot to change the file names and I think I was saving over the previous ones so I haven't got much to show unfortunately.
I must say though I am really enjoying the hands on approach, now to mount it all on a trolley instead of having the heatgun cable tied to the umbrella I was standing under.
cheers
Darren




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