Recent content by beluedog

remember do not dry fire your element or you will fry it

the contactor IS suppose to close when its in manual OR auto. I think you are seeing voltage leak across the ssr. I assume you dont have anything plugged in, but if you had an element plugged in it should work as intended.

Can you repost your latest wiring diagram and maybe some pictures of the contactor and ssr wiring progress. Will be really hard to troubleshoot without knowing more.

We use a march pump to whirlpool. works great

We use one to monitor inline O2 delivery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qLO_Iqu4Ts&feature=youtu.be

We have ours "hanging" above the element without any issues. Using weldless fittings with o-rings and washers a la blichman style

Mounted in another enclosure pictured earlier in this thread. It runs keezer and ferm as well so I thought it is better off keeping it together with that.

the ground is on all the outlets. Your run the 10/4 into the enclosure and attach the ground to the grounding post. Then connect all the outlet grounds to that as well. Make sense?

Been a while since I have posted here, but system is up and running. We have the hot side set up for manual and/or auto control as well as cold side running keezer, ferm chamber and aux. Brewed on it 5 or 6 times now and wish we had the power to run both simultaneously. We are doing 20 gallon...

thats gonna be tight with your pump outlet

Just currious where you are with this project. Was considering doing something similar...

I installed mine taking a page from theelectricbrewery.com so order 1/2" NPT to 1/4" compression fitting then used 2 washers to sandwich o-ring washer (1-1/8" ID, 1-5/8" OD, 0.062" thick) o-ring (13/16" ID, 1-1/16" OD, 1/8" thick) washer (7/8" ID, 1-3/8" OD, 0.062" thick) check out...

Nope you dont need the expansion. probes were ordered from here http://www.brewershardware.com/

have 6 port cat 5 on both boxes. On BCS/Ferm Box 1 cat 5 carries control of 4 ssrs as well as 6 volt positive and Negative 2nd cat 5 carries 4 temp wires. 4 ports are used for ferm/keezer temp probes On brew Box 2 used to connect to bcs and 4 are used for temp (I have a bcs 462) The temp and...

We have ours setup to be accessible over the web. You assign BCS a static ip on the network and then set up port forwarding on your router. We use 80 but you could use whatever you want that isn't reserved for something else. We use it to monitor ferm temps and control ramps and cold...