I thought I would post my Gaggia New Baby with PID and Silvia steam wand mod pic. I upgraded my Gaggia Carezza to the new baby , it lot better to suit the mods due to its more square shape , 3 way valve and hight to add wand.
I also replace all the o-rings on boiler and lapped the aluminium boilers to remove some corrosion pits on both machines, descaled, Now like new.
Only installed PID tonight, taste good, temp very stable, still need to find what is best temp to set it too , 92 and 93 have tried so far.
PID is an omron which i had for years, and finally found a good use for, using internal relay of PID as the new baby internal air temp is 60 plus, too hot for solid state relay. PID has choice of 2 sec or 20 sec response , 2 sec was too short , relay clicking too annoying, 20 sec works well.

I also replace all the o-rings on boiler and lapped the aluminium boilers to remove some corrosion pits on both machines, descaled, Now like new.
Only installed PID tonight, taste good, temp very stable, still need to find what is best temp to set it too , 92 and 93 have tried so far.
PID is an omron which i had for years, and finally found a good use for, using internal relay of PID as the new baby internal air temp is 60 plus, too hot for solid state relay. PID has choice of 2 sec or 20 sec response , 2 sec was too short , relay clicking too annoying, 20 sec works well.


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