OK, out of a feeling of obligation to restore thread-relevance, and since The Man Himself seems to be around (meaning
@invertedisdead ), …
I am currently far from home and my beloved Phase3 ZX/ZB, but I had been wondering lately about the operation of, and especially potential hidden features of, my PID. Mine is the one which, if I understand correctly, ships with all Phase3 set-ups, and is sourced from Disorderly Conduction (although they might not be the actual manufacturers—a little unclear on this).
In any case, I didn’t get an instruction manual with my set-up, and have not found anything like that in a couple of casual searches on-line. Does anyone know if there is such a thing available?
In particular, I am one of those mis-guided souls who tried using the “SET” button on mine, only to realize that it would not prompt me or anything once I got there. (Yeah, I know: “prompt” with what, on that display?
) Anyway, based on a few remarks here, I worry that I may have messed up some calibration or other configuration info in pressing “SET” and then (somehow!) managing to get back out of that mode.
Does Phase3 (i.e., you,
@invertedisdead ) make any device-specific changes to the original configuration of the PID? Is there a way to re-set to original factory settings or, if you
do make changes, to your specific settings? I mean, it works just fine for me (I mean:
really fine!), but I do wonder sometimes … and curse myself for being so quick to mess around with things I didn’t really understand.
Finally, one thing I would really like is to re-configure it, if possible, so that by default I jump up or down by, say, 15° rather than the default single-degree bump. I tend to run up from 450° to about 540°, more hits at lower temps and then a few clean-ups at higher ones. I think I bump in 15° increments because that’s about the point where holding the button down suddenly accelerates considerably. But sometimes I miss, and then it’s a small bother to get back to my target temp. Having it go up by 15° per button hit would make all that a bit less fussy. (Another possibility would be that there are pre-set temp stops available somehow, which would also ease things.)
In any case, I’d appreciate any info that anyone (but especially Ryan himself) can supply about factory settings, Phase3-specific configuration, and other capabilities of the PID.
Thanks in advance!
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