Looks good, I do something similar but still use an immersion to get it down to ~110 with ground water. My glycol reservoir is only about 7 gallons so to cool a 10g batch from 210 would require some run time on the ac.
You'd prob be borderline if you're ok with some moisture on the walls. I have 2 bays and 12 ft ceilings and will open the door for the last 15 or 20 minutes. I have to get to the water hose outside anyway.
First brew went well. 165f ended up being 55c on the thermostat. It covered HLT for strike and sparge water, then moved it over to bk after fly sparging enough to cover the element and cranked the thermostat to max. 3500w worked well for 12g boil.
Yes it's grounded, gfci, etc. The...
Set up with a simple thermostat from aliexpress in an outdoor conduit box and ran the bulb down to the element. Hoping it'll get me close enough on strike and sparge and I'll be able to drop it in bk if necessary. Using 3500w element right now, thermostat says it's good to 32a.
Keep in mind without a source of makeup air there is a potential to put a negative pressure on things like water heater vents and pull exhaust gasses into the room. Code calls for things over 300cfm (or when necessary). Since you're in a basement with a water heater and combustion byproducts...
I think i'm gonna go 4 elements in the BK and 2 in the HLT, heat times work starting with 120f water and i could use bk to heat first strike of the day. Really screws up symmetry of control panel front though. Was going to just swing the 3 and 3 by using different wattage elements but it...
May not be exactly in the realm of homebrew but it's close. I bought a keg washer that had several pneumatic valves and for one of them i'm missing everything but the actuator. I didn't think much of it at the time but i'm having a hell of a time finding a bracket and coupler to link up with...
There's a hysterisis setting so 3 elements would ramp to say 1 degree of target, kick off, then one would maintain.
I def understand adding SSRs is not a huge deal and tried and true, just want to be clear on the thought process.