Recent content by bblack7489

Finished building up one of these over the weekend. I used the Wemos official lipo board and a different accelerometer, but it's basically the same stuff (need to merge the official firmware with my test code). I was excited to find such a long and active thread about it. Is there anything...

It appears that the recipator website is down again. Does anyone know anything about its upkeep? I'm a big fan of using it as it's web-based and not OS dependent. The kicker is that it saves my recipes as HTML. I have a touch-panel PC in my brewery that runs WindowsXP Embedded and has...

Arugh, I'll try to post this a third time hopefully I won't get a "token expired" message this go around. Anyway, apparently SparkFun was reading our thread about touch screens for embedded projects. While I was looking through their weekly new product post, I saw these new serial LCD screens...

I'll add in a data point about pulling back but very infrequently scaling down. While I do have friends who have gone into the mode of trying to simplify their brewing process (batch sparging vs fly, moving to BIAB, etc), but I only know one person who has taken that so far as to go from 10+...

alien, thanks for the shout-out. I know that it's kind of a lame response, but if you're going to put something more complicated than an off-the-shelf PID controller in the box, I'd highly suggest you add a touch-screen to it. I used a Reach Tech 4.7" dude, and it's pretty slick. That way you...

NO KIDDING! I was floored when I went to try to buy my main electric cord and plug. I ended up getting a good deal on 4-4 when I split a roll off ebay with a buddy. It's really nice and flexible, so it works great...but man...

Mine would still look a whole lot like the before as well if it hadn't been for all of the work that my company put into it. I only added minimal functionality to it, but it's a whole lot shinier. I definitely don't make any better beer with it. I guess the only asterisk is that I do get...

I'll add in my two cents. You can go slowly. I started with a single 8 gallon pot and a turkey fryer. I'd set pots and buckets on different stacks of things to get the right gravity feed. My first step into the e-brewing was when I realized that I hated watching the temp on my strike water...

I'll second that. I put in a 50A breaker and have a GFCI in a spa panel on my brewery. That way I can plug it into any 50A circuit and run it safely at full-power, or I can switch out the plug for a normal dryer outlet and run it at half-power. That way I can take it other places to brew. If...

There was a question a little further back in the thread about regulating the power. There are various ways to accomplish the same thing, but the general term you're looking for is pulse-width modulation (PWM). That just means that you're turning the power on and off repeatedly to deliver less...

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If you broke the solder joint free when you were installing fittings, then it's very likely that you had a cold solder in the first place. If the solder flows properly, you shouldn't be able to take it off with an impact wrench. I was in the same boat recently. I was cleaning things up and...

I'm not sure why, but the pics didn't link. I'll see if I can fix that.

Is anyone in Central Texas interested in giving a new home to my old brewery frame? I'm asking for $150 to cover most the material cost that I have in it, but I want to get it out of the garage...so I'm willing to entertain offers if it goes to a good home. I've posted it to a local email list...

The word on the street is that we're going to have someone from our media team come take video of a brewing session sometime soon. I owe a lot of beer to a lot of people who helped out with the project. I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and shoot video while making a giant batch, but...