Measuring and Displaying Temperatures
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Coal Reaper
Minister of Fire
i do not monitor stack temp. my boiler shuts of when the stack temp falls below setpoint. there may be other probes available elsewhere that work with the x300.
Yes, I agree. Thanks to all for your help and advice. I'm going to order the equipment today and get things set up. If I remember I'll give an update.
Bob
Good Evening Everybody,
I wanted to post that I finished the installation of the X-300I. The computer set up and probe installation took about 8 hours. I used a total of 6 sensors (out of a possible 8). I've attached a screen shot of the display. I am not especially computer savvy, but the set up was pretty straightforward. I am still trying to figure out the router and email settings. I will work on them tonight. All in all I am very happy with what I have seen so far. The only thing I did not like about the X-300 is that I could not use a probe for the stack. The maximum temperature for their probes is 257*. They would sell me another device that would use an RTD sensor, but the device , plus sensor, would be well over another $100. I ended up buying a probe and meter from Amazon. That set up was a breeze.
Special thanks to JP11 and Coal Reaper for their help.
If you have any questions, let me know.
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I wanted to post that I finished the installation of the X-300I. The computer set up and probe installation took about 8 hours. I used a total of 6 sensors (out of a possible 8). I've attached a screen shot of the display. I am not especially computer savvy, but the set up was pretty straightforward. I am still trying to figure out the router and email settings. I will work on them tonight. All in all I am very happy with what I have seen so far. The only thing I did not like about the X-300 is that I could not use a probe for the stack. The maximum temperature for their probes is 257*. They would sell me another device that would use an RTD sensor, but the device , plus sensor, would be well over another $100. I ended up buying a probe and meter from Amazon. That set up was a breeze.
Special thanks to JP11 and Coal Reaper for their help.
If you have any questions, let me know.
Bob
Coal Reaper
Minister of Fire
JP11
Minister of Fire
Cool. you can get in the settings and put your name... or whatever you want where it says X300. Mine says Vigas I think.
You can also get it to remove the sensors not used, just to clean up the display.
JP
You can also get it to remove the sensors not used, just to clean up the display.
JP
that looks great ...hows about a "part list" of what u got into this ...so a slow, short bus guy like me can gather the needed items and get my/own stuff up and running....
that looks great ...hows about a "part list" of what u got into this ...so a slow, short bus guy like me can gather the needed items and get my/own stuff up and running....
The parts list is pretty short. I bought the X-300-I in a package that included a transformer and one temperature sensor. I purchased 5 additional sensors. The sales rep said I could save money by using either thermostat wire or Cat-5 that I might already have. I used thermostat wire I had run underground from the boiler room to our house and kept the module in my house, not out in the shed. I hooked the X-300-I into my router with an extra cable I had left over from a new router I had bought. I think that ControlByWeb sells short ones for a few dollars. I did have problems with accessing the X-300 through my laptop and I had questions concerning graphing the data from the sensors. I got a quick, DETAILED, response from their support people. I am not the best with computers, but I figured out how to change an I.P. address on my router, and,magically the X-300 display is on now my laptop. Tomorrow I will tackle the graphing on Excel.
Nothing frustrates me more then not getting help from a company after you've purchased their product. Yes, they may have gotten my money once, but you'll never get it again. ControlByWeb has been great and I would not hesitate to buy from them again.
If you have any more requests, let me know.
Bob
thankschange that 1970 time date while your at it lol
Yep. Taken care of. I wouldn't mind going back to 1970. I'd be 7 years old, have no responsibilities, and get recess......I'd even have hair again.
Karl_northwind
Minister of Fire
I just worked with Dan to get his X300 all up and running, and it was a relative breeze. I tried programming before I went to his place, spent an hour and a half trying to connect to the device, and 4 laptops later finally determined that the RJ45 port on my backup laptop (new one doesn't even have one) didn't work. and I don't even know where to start finding the IP address info on windows 8. that said, the tech support I got from the company was top notch and patient, the equipment performed flawlessly, and once dan gets his router stuff set up, I can watch his system from my shop 200 miles away.
I do like that we can add relays to the system and make it do even more cool (or Hot?) stuff. I will be using more of these. and maybe even supplying them to customers for the first winter for no charge to make sure things are running smoothly. Important since I'm getting more and more calls from further away these days. Word is getting out....
I think supplying them to new customers is a great idea. I spent the first year doing my best to guess what was going on with my system. The X-300 makes it a snap.
Bob
I have a question about the x300.
I'm seriously considering getting one of the modules, not sure which, if any, yet. I have an azel right now and I'm not too happy with it. It was doing good for a while, then it was 10 degrees off for a while, then it was 30 and I think it's around 40 degrees off right now. I like the idea of being able to monitor using the computer and get it on my phone and everything. But I'd also like a display at the top of my stairs so that I can glance at it on my way to bed and see if I need to make a fire. Anyway, does anybody know of a way to have a simple display (lcd would be awesome) being driven by the x300 without having a laptop stuck to the wall? I'd rather not have a tablet or phone dedicated to the sensors web page. Seems like an expensive digital readout.
I suppose this is beyond the scope of controlbyweb and into computer hardware, but if anybody had any ideas that'd be awesome. Thanks
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I'm seriously considering getting one of the modules, not sure which, if any, yet. I have an azel right now and I'm not too happy with it. It was doing good for a while, then it was 10 degrees off for a while, then it was 30 and I think it's around 40 degrees off right now. I like the idea of being able to monitor using the computer and get it on my phone and everything. But I'd also like a display at the top of my stairs so that I can glance at it on my way to bed and see if I need to make a fire. Anyway, does anybody know of a way to have a simple display (lcd would be awesome) being driven by the x300 without having a laptop stuck to the wall? I'd rather not have a tablet or phone dedicated to the sensors web page. Seems like an expensive digital readout.
I suppose this is beyond the scope of controlbyweb and into computer hardware, but if anybody had any ideas that'd be awesome. Thanks
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I initially wanted to have a bank of displays on my wall in our mudroom. After getting the X-300, I am glad I went this route. I am not a person that is tied to electronics, but I do keep them around. I can access the X-300 display on my laptop, phone, or Kindle. Last thing I do at night and first thing I do in the morning is take a quick look at the Kindle and see how things are going outside in the boiler room. It's as easy as clicking as clicking an icon on the desktop. It was expensive at first glance, but if you look at the price of 8 separate displays, it's not as bad. I think it was worth it.
I hope this helps,
Bob
JP11
Minister of Fire
Well, off the top of my head....
not quite as much data as a real display.. but there are some programable switches that you could wire in some LEDs. You could have a combination of two or 3 LEDs that could tell you when it's time for a fire... or at least when it's time to go look at a real display to see what's up.
JP
This really is quite inexpensive. A low-end tablet is well under $100. I use one to monitor my PV system which has web-based reporting.
Karl_northwind
Minister of Fire
I'm sure you could find an old smartphone with a wifi connection that you could use, keep it plugged in and velcro it to the wall. keep the browser open or set it to your home page for the display page. with the mergers around here, I and my wife have 2 or 3 perfectly good smartphones laying around that we "can't use" on the new network.
I use Logger 2020.
It can send sms alarms. and u can have a webpage where you can put the mesurments on a picure.
It can also read your electrical usge.
http://www.e-logger.se/pub?hansson&p=1
It can send sms alarms. and u can have a webpage where you can put the mesurments on a picure.
It can also read your electrical usge.
http://www.e-logger.se/pub?hansson&p=1
eauzonedan
Member
Likely.... They give you options to write programs and also to re-format the output. The full manual at about 150 pages is on the site for download. The staff is also very helpful. I have pulled down the ascii text file and that captures all sensor readings with a date stamp at any interval you spec. Not real time but it would be easy to bounce that thru a spreadsheet if you so chose. I'm seeing 30+ degrees of spread top to bottom both before and after a burn in my 1500. Mike at precision chem wants me to add a filter and I'm thinking to run it off the blower circuit to provide some mix on the heating cycle but not during the draw down. 30 + degrees is a lot of storage I'm not re-charging
Dan
Dan
Hey guys- just wanted to chime in I'm also an x300 devotee. I created an all in one realtime plus graphing webpage for my x300. The x300 log.txt is pulled every 5 minutes and read into a database. This is a pretty custom solution, but just to give you an idea what it can do:
http://x300.ddns.net
http://x300.ddns.net
Coal Reaper
Minister of Fire
pm me if anyone has their x300 live on the web and is interested in plugging into my system ... I think with some fairly simple modifications I could make it work
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