Electric Brewery's

[Scott H]

We spoke about creating a discussion so people who have or people who are thinking about and/or building can share pic's info and pitfalls to avoid.

Just about finished building my bench and hopefully will have a chance to start wiring it up this weekend. Pics to follow shortly.

[dean fisher]

yea I have seen that. pretty cool set up. are you using weldless fitting etc for your elements or using tri clamps

[Scott H]

Wield less fittings done as they have on there they work perfectly.

[Scott H]

So, after a bit more thought ect, ill be changing my elements to run off SSR's and prob grabbing a couple of the sestos pid to complete my trio. I am defo going to buy my temp probes from aubins with the pre made qd leads though I have one atm and they are mint.

[Scott H]

Same reason as Barry but upon further research I'm only going to use a mechanical relay on the start stop station and will be switching to ssr for element control.

[Rhys Williams]

I'm using this ssr from deal extreme, switching a 3kw element:
http://www.dx.com/p/ssr-40da-40a-solid-state-relay-grey-silver-2567...

These are about $10 each. With 3kw you need to add a decent heat sink

[Barry]

Same one that came with my Sestos PIDs Rhys.
I've got 2 switching a 4500W element each.
I got my heat sink from Jaycar one big one for both. I ran out of time and patience looking for anything cheaper - $30

[Peter Smith]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/business-farming-industry/industrial/elect...

I got mine from this guy,  I need a big heat sink.  I got one of his but don't trust that its big enough.

[Barry]

I got this heatsink (one half):

http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=HH8530&form=CAT2&...

Should be well big enough I reckon.

[Scott H]

The ones I've ordered from alixpress are 25a complete with heatsinks for 11.95usd ea.

[Rhys Williams]

Here is my setup.
I have 2 digital thermometers, and a ssr relay controlling a 3kw element. I have a 30L kettle with a stainless steel mesh that I mash in. I'm controlling with a raspberry pi, I can access wirelessly from my phone, or using a remote control and the LCD screen.
A recent addition was a pH probe, so I can watch the pH in real time and make adjustments!
http://wilberforce.co.nz/2014/04/27/brubonic-mashing/

I can step mash, and mash out, so have a lot of control. I've written the software using node.js

[Barry]

Awesome Rhys, that dgital automation sounds amazing. NERD ALERT. In a _great_ way.

[Peter Smith]

Rhys    - now you can watch mash ph how different from expected values do you find PH    do you justy stir in some more acid malt if needed etc?