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Temperature Monitoring with Poplite
Dann-Oh
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Posted on 05/11/2016 10:50 AM
Hello all,

I am starting out my roasting career/passion with a Poplite unit. It is currently un-modded, for now. I am roasting a batch of Lavanta's Papua New Guinea beans. I know I like lighter bright roasts that highlight the bean and terroir flavors. I'm not too sure I'm hitting the temp ranges to achieve this since I don't have a way to see what temp I'm actually roasting at, I believe I need to hit about 426 deg F for a light city to city roast I could be wrong.

I have ordered and received a thermocouple to monitor the temps during roasting as well as a glass chimney to try to help minimize bean escape during the roasting.

My question for this post is where is the optimum location for the thermocouple? I have both a rigid probe and a flexible probe. At this moment in time I am not looking to record temp data I'm just looking to monitor the temp data.
 
btreichel
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Posted on 05/11/2016 11:01 AM
On my p1 it was thru the metal, just below the glass. But that presumes you have striped away the plastic shell.
 
ChicagoJohn
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Posted on 05/19/2016 1:23 PM
I drilled through the plastic housing and the chamber at a height of 40 mm / 1.5 inches above the air inlet grid at the bottom. For my set-up with the funnel insert, this results in the beans continually circulating over the copper tube the thermocouple tip is mounted in with the intent of getting more of a bean mass temperature than inlet air temperature.
So many beans; so little time....
 
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