Buying for Australia

[Agrajag]

No problem happy roasting! You will like the IR stove

Certainly do! Did my 2nd huky roast tonight, 1st on the IR stove. I gave up waiting for the DC fan I ordered to arrive for my 2nd roast and decided to just use the built in manual handle thing. Went with a mix of instructions here about following the Rao curve and Mr Li's instructions. Pretty happy with the result!



250g brazil, ended with 213g. I was a bit slow starting up the stove at 1 minute so it dropped a bit further than I would've liked. I also didn't really know what the fan was going to do so pretty much just left it at about half open throughout the roast to remove a variable. Opened it a bit more at 1st crack. Turned the stove off for about a minute too. Probably stopped the roast a little early (for espresso) but I was getting a bit nervous towards the end , also roasting in low light and looked darker in the tryer than it did under light.

I was a bit surprised that I had to use max kPa (~4) at the start given only 250g. Not sure why that have been the case? I started turning it down from about 150°C.
 
I have no idea what happened in my first roast with my thermocouple but this time I got super smooth non-erratic readings so happy with that.

For other aussies reading, the regulator that Mr Li sends with the stove works with Australian POL connections, you just have to do it up really tight to get gas to flow.

[hankua]

Looks like your off to a good start! In artisan you can erase "roaster scope" and type in a title. I'd look through the set-up guides in the download section, and try tuning your artisan parameters

Not sure about the 4kPa start, was the roaster cold? If you play around with the damper, it can roast at a much lower (towards closed) setting.

[SusanJoM]

Here are some of the Artisan documents that Hank is referring to.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4HTX5wS3NB2TFVid0h2TGxBWG8&usp=sharing

[Agrajag]

Not sure about the 4kPa start, was the roaster cold? If you play around with the damper, it can roast at a much lower (towards closed) setting.

From memory I had the damper about 1/4 open when I turned the fan on ~1 minute in, then opened it up at about 1st crack.

Here are some of the Artisan documents that Hank is referring to.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4HTX5wS3NB2TFVid0h2TGxBWG8&usp=sharing

Great thanks I'll take a look.

[jarnold]

If you do not have a method of slowing your fan I would set the damper to 50% and leave it there

[hankua]

Damper settings are probably machine dependent, that is solid drum vs perforated.

[easygene]

Hank I'm curious.  Using a solid drum and no variac would setting your damper at 50% as Jarnold suggests work?

Or no heat or fan until DE and then 50% until  temp reaches 160 and then a setting to slow down and lengthen 1C.  I know you advocate beginning slowing down at 140.

[Rtpinga]

Hi, new here. Just thought i would throw it out there. Anyone that has a huky that they want to sell in australia, im in the market. Hit me up asap. More than likely I will just purchase new, but thought i would ask bedore i pull the trigger. Cheers

[kctremel]

A guy posted on reddit selling his J version from the U.S.  But with the price hes offering it for, itd be just as much probably to buy it new from Mr. Li.

[Rtpinga]

All good, thought I would check before I purchased new. Everyone must be holding on to theirs. I just ordered one with Mr Li. Cant wait!