sabbato753
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Kal:
The Breakers in my main panel are all GFI so I will be fine. Thank you again for all of your help. I am making a KBS clone at the end of the month and I want to make sure I dot my i's and cross my t's.
Brounds, I will offer a bit of unsolicited advice:
The brew setup that Kal has outlined through the years with the Electric Brewery work WONDERS. However, I cannot stress this enough - DO NOT SHORTCUT your testing. It took me almost 3 months of fiddling just to make sure all of my kettles were good, grounded, leakproof and controlled properly. Now, I built mine over the course of evenings here and there but just making sure everything fit (both dry and wet, then tested for heat because things expand) took some time. It's pretty clear you haven't yet begun the wiring, and making sure that it seals is CRITICAL to safety.
Please just don't rush your setup - the investment pays off over time to really know and understand how everything fits together, and how things wire up. You are NOT playing with "I got a little tingle" power. Understanding what things are protective in your setup (GFI), what are convenient (switches) and what are dangerous (how waterproof are you making your connection to the heating element?) are crucial not just to the "finer" controls (PID vs SSVR) but also for keeping yourself safe and your first batch from being ruined.
The TL;DR of this is: You're mixing 13 gallons of water with enough electric that it can kill you by the time the breaker trips. If you are unsure of what you're doing here, brew your next batch the OLD way and take time to build and UNDERSTAND this kettle. It'll be around for the brew after that, and all the ones to come if you do it right. Stay safe!