Recent content by ralph

Baerlic will fill cornies for I think $53 (?) -- drop off any time, pick it up two days later.

The highgravitybrew controller uses a 3-prong dryer plug (hot, hot, ground) and provides a 110v pump outlet (hot, neutral, ground) -- are they conflating ground with neutral, and will that cause trouble for a gfci outlet? Or am I confused about something?

I read that it takes 540 calories to convert 1g of water from liquid to gas at 100 degrees C, and water is 3787.5 g/gallon, so that's 2.379 kWh. So it seems to me that a 2379 watt element (if it were 100% efficient) would boil off 1 gallon per hour. Of course some heat leaves the kettle via...