Indeed: I have been thinking about doing something with one of these motors Click Here (www.herbach.com) , a sunpentown 2000/1/2 and a frying pan, but perhaps this 2007 would be a better choice.
SmileyGladhand Senior Member Joined: 5 Dec 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Charleston, SC Expertise: I live coffee
Roaster: SC/CO
Posted Fri Jul 13, 2007, 4:33pm Subject: Re: New TO-CO oven top
pwest Said:
Indeed: I have been thinking about doing something with one of these motors Click Here (www.herbach.com) , a sunpentown 2000/1/2 and a frying pan, but perhaps this 2007 would be a better choice.
That top looks awesome. It takes care of the spacer for us and should be perfect for seeing the color progression. Do you ever get the feeling that more people are buying these things for roasting than for cooking?
If you're going to go through the trouble of drilling a hole in that pan, you might as well ditch the wok and get a stainless one.
tjcombs Senior Member Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 65 Location: Bean Scene Coffe House, Kelowna Expertise: I like coffee
Posted Fri Jul 13, 2007, 6:05pm Subject: Re: New TO-CO oven top
Just got am email back from Sunpentown on the availablity of the 2007. Looks promising!
Email is as follows:
Hi, Yes we can sell the top alone. But this item is not in stock yet. ETA is around end of this month. Once shipment arrives, we should have the top on sell separately on our site (www.sunpentown.com).
SmileyGladhand Senior Member Joined: 5 Dec 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Charleston, SC Expertise: I live coffee
Roaster: SC/CO
Posted Sat Jul 14, 2007, 4:00pm Subject: Re: New TO-CO oven top
tjcombs Said:
Just got am email back from Sunpentown on the availablity of the 2007. Looks promising!
Email is as follows:
Hi, Yes we can sell the top alone. But this item is not in stock yet. ETA is around end of this month. Once shipment arrives, we should have the top on sell separately on our site (www.sunpentown.com).
I think I've decided to give one of those a try. I have my current TO in a million pieces and was just about to begin working on bypassing the thermostat and installing a PID, but this one looks too good to waste my time on anything else (I'll still be bypassing the thermostat of course).
Posted Sat Jul 14, 2007, 6:58pm Subject: Re: New TO-CO oven top
SmileyGladhand Said:
Perfect. Thanks for the info.
I think I've decided to give one of those a try. I have my current TO in a million pieces and was just about to begin working on bypassing the thermostat and installing a PID, but this one looks too good to waste my time on anything else (I'll still be bypassing the thermostat of course).
Getting the TO working properly is my priority right now (the unmodded deadband was beginning to annoy me), so I will probably stick with my SC while I work on that. Eventually I will be building my own stirrer. I have a SS pan ready to go. The pan has straight sides about 3" tall. I was planning on making a hole in the side, and then have a cylindar shaped chaff collector similar to what you've seen attached to spacer rings on SC/CO setups (not the Woz spacers).
Posted Sun Jul 15, 2007, 10:07pm Subject: Re: New TO-CO oven top
SmileyGladhand Said:
Getting the TO working properly is my priority right now (the unmodded deadband was beginning to annoy me), so I will probably stick with my SC while I work on that. Eventually I will be building my own stirrer. I have a SS pan ready to go. The pan has straight sides about 3" tall. I was planning on making a hole in the side, and then have a cylindar shaped chaff collector similar to what you've seen attached to spacer rings on SC/CO setups (not the Woz spacers).
Separated My TO and am sooo glad I did. Tried it on a rheostat but was losing some voltage then tried an on /off/on switch with one side direct to heater other side to rheostat and that worked pretty well but then decided to get a used 20amp variac with a "Kill-A Watt" meter to digitally measure volts output and this works great. Might PID it but not sure I need too. I like recording the progress of the roast and adjusting as I go. I'm also using a faster bean bat gearhead motor that is variable speed 80-330 rpm. With a square bottom pot it can take high speeds nicely. Ed B.
SmileyGladhand Senior Member Joined: 5 Dec 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Charleston, SC Expertise: I live coffee
Roaster: SC/CO
Posted Tue Jul 17, 2007, 4:21pm Subject: Re: New TO-CO oven top
farmroast Said:
Separated My TO and am sooo glad I did. Tried it on a rheostat but was losing some voltage then tried an on /off/on switch with one side direct to heater other side to rheostat and that worked pretty well but then decided to get a used 20amp variac with a "Kill-A Watt" meter to digitally measure volts output and this works great. Might PID it but not sure I need too. I like recording the progress of the roast and adjusting as I go. I'm also using a faster bean bat gearhead motor that is variable speed 80-330 rpm. With a square bottom pot it can take high speeds nicely. Ed B.
Sounds awesome Ed. The more I think about it, the more I think I'll miss the hands on cranking of the dial throughout the roast. I would love to give a variac a try, but they're so expensive compared to a PID and what it can do.
I've read on your site that you're going to have pics of your new roaster. Did you document the whole process?
Posted Sat Sep 22, 2007, 6:03pm Subject: Re: New TO-CO oven top
Has anyone tried one of these new Sunpentown 2002 or 2007 'nano carbon fiber' TOs yet? Just wondering if they are better/worse/about the same as the old 2000/1's.
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