MPSAN wrote:

So, every 30 seconds you went to cool for 5 seconds for a total of 3.5 minutes, then at 4.5 minutes you went to medium? I guess I wonder what you did from 3.5 to 4.5 minutes?

OH...I ground my second roast this AM. WOW was it good! I may add 12 or 18 seconds at the end, but this was good. My only "problem" is that I did the cool 5 second thing at 30, 30, and 1 minute thing then Medium for 1.5 minutes at 3 minutes. So, total was 4.5 minutes at the END of this stage before going to High Heat and a modulated fan. Even at Medium, I heard a few beans at FC. By the time I went to High heat, I could only keep it there for about 2 Minutes, so total roasting time was about 6.5 minutes. I then hit cool. I MAY try keeping it on high stage for 12 or 18 seconds longer as it "could" be a LITTLE darker, but I liked this 2nd roast a lot!

SO, I do not know what extending this would do, but I can get nowhere near 10 minutes of total roast time.

Every 30 seconds I flicked to cool for 5 seconds until the 3.5 min mark.
Start with low heat/high fant. I switched to medium heat/high fan at 4.5 minutes. Switch to high heat/modulate fan at 5min 50 seconds. The crack lasted until 7.5minutes. I switched to the cooling cycle at 7min40seconds and moved the beans to my cooling bucket at 8min20 seconds.

ginny wrote:

try it...


-g

Well, I will, but doing this will not tell me if it has cooled enough so there will be no damage.

This site has been a great help to me and has made my roasts easy.
I suppose that even if the SR500 does not last as long as expected, it should still be long enough before I think about a drum roaster. They do cost $$$!

ginny wrote:

well, I need to ask you if you MUST roast right away? if not wait an hour and roast or until the darn thing cools.

are you in a hurry or do you need to back to back roasts?

I roast 10 ounces in my Hot Top, walk away after it dumps and come back when it's cool as I am not on any clock and it is not an issue. so many here have done mods to do back to back roasts.

if I wanted to roast for the masses I would get a big freaking roaster.

just curious m...


ginny


got a name?

comfortableshoes wrote:

I have been using my machine/roasting as a moment to recharge and unplug my brain as I'm reading heavy research for my thesis. I read an hour, do a roast, read an hour, do a roast. Repeat until I finish my roasts for the week. I'm also roasting 6 different types of beans.

I've been testing out some new "ramps" to replace the copper ring in the bottom of the chamber. I managed to crack my chamber because I didn't put a gap into the ring at the top of one of the mesh tea balls. (A 3 inch mesh tea ball ripped in half, fits in perfectly with a little bending of the ring. A gap cut into the ring would have made it work and not crack my chamber.) Sigh.