Adventures in Brewing

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Yet another new system... (progress)

My kettles and cheapo stand have been moved into the basement. This is what we will use until we have the money to build a new stand and order the large 55 gallon kettles.

Almost everything is in place, just a couple modifications need to be made still. We switched the flow from starting on the left side and moving toward the right. It now flows from the right toward the left. This necessitates moving pumps and couple other small changes.

The vent hood has been fabricated and ducting purchased. It will be installed today or tomorrow and first full wet test, mock brew, and calibration will happen tomorrow.


Hoses in this pic are stretched weird. Once the pumps are moved
over it will look and operate better. 









A better view of the Control Panel. 

Friday, October 4, 2013

Panel is complete! (well, almost...)  All wiring is finished and has been tested. The only thing now is to add a little bit of silicone to some of the joints to keep it waterproof.

The picture looks the same as the previous post but the amp meter is now reading the amperage going through. I only had one element hooked up so its showing 22.1 amps. If I run both it will show the total 44 amps.
Another note, only the boil PID is showing temp.
I didn't bother to bring out all the temp probes while
testing. I just moved from one to another to make sure
each one works correctly.