Gentlemen, thank you for your rapid replies!
We have a beautiful evening in Switzerland. I am sitting on my terrace as the sun goes down, digesting your answers, lubricated by a 3rd pint of Hippy IPA that I brewed earlier in the year. It makes reading Swedish much easier!
@AHm
Maybe I was asking for trouble, requesting you reply in Svenska, as I did not want to hijack the thread into an English one. But I think I worked it out! Below are my translations of your answers; and then my answers back.
1. I briefly tried to connect the PCB in parallel to the potentiometer, and it looked ok, but I have not tried all possible combinations. I guess it should not be a problem.
—> The issue I had in mind is manual override. From experience what can go wrong will go wrong! So to have the ability to yank out the connection to the Raspberry and continue with manual control via the knob to “save the day” would be valuable to me.
2. I chose the option of connecting the OneWire to the PCB, because my measuring point will be in the pan. If that is not the case, you can connect direct to the Raspberry instead.
—> Google Translate makes a pig’s ear of your Swedish (“…I will always have a measuring point on the roll wool…”), and at first I did not trust my translation - until bingo! it now makes sense. Presumably you want to locate the fragile and sensitive Raspberry far away from the dangerous induction hob and bubbling pots of hot sticky wort. So a thermometer connection to the pcb in the hob will be closer to the pan, requiring a shorter lead to the sensor. (b.t.w, why does OSX keep autocorrecting “pcb” to “pub”? Context sensitive autocorrection gone mad?).
3. The main advantage is that it is easy to connect to the Raspberry, other than that there are no advantages to the DS1820 as it is quite slow.
—> The DS1820 may be slow and not very accurate, but is looks like it is fast and accurate enough for our application: mashing. From threads elsewhere on the web, choice of sensor seems to be almost a religious question. I am happy to go for something that is proven to work for mashing, easy to integrate, and easy to purchase.
@Bryggapa
The devil sitting on one shoulder agrees with you. It is probably possible to emulate a rotary encoder for my ID-500B, which appears to be sister model to the IK 35 referred to in this German thread
http://hobbybrauer.de/modules.php?name= ... &tid=17866 (the internals look identical, only the control PCB seems to be different).
Another option might be to order the control pcb BT-350-DIS for the IK 35
https://www.bartscher.de/blobs/Explosio ... 835_de.pdf, and follow _Heiner’s solution (hoping that the micro controller on the motherboard is the same for both models).
However the angel sitting on my other shoulder says “Chris, the last time you did any serious electronics was 35 years ago as a 10 year-old boy when you build a crystal radio following a Ladybird book…”. An induction hob also has deadly levels of volts and amps, so at the end-of-the-day I think it will be cheaper and safer to restrain my natural instinct to experiment, and instead to go for a proven solution that you gents have developed, even if that means purchasing a new hob.
Cheers and tack,
Chris