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.

[Adam Sparks]

No my initial feed in to the hot bus comes from the main power relay as per.....

I think Ive confused myself by looking at Kals volt meter diagram.... In that he has the meter inline from a phase on his boil relay to the hot bus. But I want to put the meter across a hot and neutral anywhere in the system like the diagram that came with the meter I assume

[Adam Sparks]

Ignore what Im on about, I was looking at this the wrong way and now that Im home and looking in my panel I see that the 2 position is the neutral line, I did confuse my self good and proper

[Adam Sparks]

I fricken wired this thing and you think I can find my way around it after only a few weeks? Of course being at Hallertau all afternoon surely doesn't help me at all...

Ill pop this new meter in tomorrow and should be just about ready to roll

[Peter Church]

Making progress, need a few more bits to arrive, pump switches, timer reset and pause, swap out the space holding dead pid for another auber

[Adam Sparks]

Nice one Peter, that'll do the job!!

[Scott H]

Update: HLT Coil coiled and installed.

[Patrick]

Are you doing HERMS?

[Barry]

Yeah the coil in the HLT gives it away as a HERMS.
Looks bloody great Scott! How long is all that copper?

[Scott H]

20m x 1/2in.

Got it from [e-mail] for $85 + $15 postage.

Was really easy to reshape.

[Barry]

20m, shit that's heaps. Nice job man.

[Scott H]

Yeah i was only going to go with 15m which is about 50ft but the cost diff was minimal. calibrating again tomorrow arvo and giving it a nice hot pbw bath for an hour or two so will know how well it works then.

You must be close now to firing up your system?

[Barry]

It's so close. All hardware done, inline oxy stone in place.
2 things still to do, calibrate the PT100s and get the sparky to set up an outlet.
Had a busy as heck couple of months, changed jobs and winter means we're spending most weekends at Ruapehu. Means progress is very slow.

Still brewing on my co-op brewery so beer has been in ready supply. Itching to get this thing going though.