Flair Pro 2: Added a Flair 58 inspired electronic preheat and potentially better temperature contro
After quite a bit of trial and error, I've finally completed my preheat mod. Much appreciation to the Brew with Flair Facebook group for all the tips and advice! This was an experiment to see if you can achieve better temperature control than using traditional methods of preheating the brew head. I feel that I still need more time with this, but I wanted to post this video to share what I've done so far. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions to improve on it! Please note that at the moment, I don't feel comfortable sharing the specific parts I used for this mod. I'm not an expert with electronics and wouldn't want to give any of you some bad advice. But in general, it consists of a power supply to convert the power to DC, some PI heating film, a controller to regulate the power going to the heaters, a temperature meter, and a toggle switch. I'm using 12v for the components and made a reasonable effort to make sure everything was compatible.
After quite a bit of trial and error, I've finally completed my preheat mod. Much appreciation to the Brew with Flair Facebook group for all the tips and advice! This was an experiment to see if you can achieve better temperature control than using traditional methods of preheating the brew head. I feel that I still need more time with this, but I wanted to post this video to share what I've done so far. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions to improve on it! Please note that at the moment, I don't feel comfortable sharing the specific parts I used for this mod. I'm not an expert with electronics and wouldn't want to give any of you some bad advice. But in general, it consists of a power supply to convert the power to DC, some PI heating film, a controller to regulate the power going to the heaters, a temperature meter, and a toggle switch. I'm using 12v for the components and made a reasonable effort to make sure everything was compatible.