Recent content by Spellman

I have been using these jackets for a few years and they are absolutely awesome. I mainly ferment in sanke kegs as well for my 10g batches and the expansion panel makes that possible. For my 5g batches in carboys I just remove the panel and that works wonderfully. I love how modular they can...

Get Bobby's ss 1/2 cane with his bore through compression fitting and call it a day. Seals just fine, I push with gas and it works like a charm. Side note, Bobby, if you wanted to make a nut that fits on that that had some wings on it so I wouldn't have to use a wrench when racking...I would...

You will need 2 controllers. If you run the ac unit all the time it will freeze up on the coil and destroy the unit (might get half a day to a day out of it before it is ruined). I power mine with a stc-1000, but you will have to make sure the ac unit doesn't draw too much power to be...

I think you will have way less headaches running it with 2 temp controllers. On mine I have 1 temp controller for the glycol, then 4 temp controllers to do 4 separate fermentations that are triggering individual pumps for the lines. I insulated the glycol lines on mine and have very little...

Yes, been a while since I wrote that and had to think about it a little. Doesn't appear that I worded it very clearly, but the green to black tells the psu that it is good to go to power on the motherboard (in our case motor).

I'm using a 11mm coupler on the cereal killer, and a 12mm on the seat motor shaft. I forget if I posted anything about this or not, but I broke my car seat motor about a year ago. I had some red wheat that it had an awful time with and was stalling my 16a atx supply. I didn't have a reverse...

I thought about this too when I was building mine. Either will work great. In the end I decided that independent pumps had an advantage of being cheaper and easier to set up. Using 1 big pump method really doesn't have much advantages for the homebrew size. If you were constantly running...

I should also mention, the new Spike kettles look very nice btw!

I am a jarhill user and I never regretted getting them. I got mine back when they came in a set and I bought 3 sets, which they stupidly combined shipping on (now they are slightly more expensive with free shipping, mine were closer to $130 for a 4 set with shipping). I ended up selling the...

Yes, red line is where to cut. You'll probably need to cut the shaft down on the fan too. While a hacksaw will technically work, do yourself a favor and pick up a cheap angle grinder to make the cut. I don't even want to think about how long that would be to cut by hand. Remember you will...

The compressors are designed to be oriented the way they are in the devices they come in to function properly, not to say they won't, but I doubt you want to take a chance after all this work. There should be a wire going to the thermostat and one coming out, wire those so it is always engaged...

Just to be sure, you are planning on bending the evaporator coil down correct? I'm not sure how well the compressor would like being on its side. If you are using a ranco to power it, I would try wiring the thermostat wire together. When the unit gets powered on it see's that it is "warm" and...

On my setup I have an elbow with a barbed fitting on the end on the top of the kettle. I have the elbow loosely fit so I can kind of swivel it. When filling the bk I point it down, up until it reaches that level, then I swivel to the side. When whirl pooling I just attach a small length of...

A while back I redid the vinyl floors in our kitchen with some laminate flooring. The previous installers didn't glue the old vinyl down, but just stapled around the edges of the room. When I pulled it up I saved a big hunk and glued it down to a 4x8 sheet of chip board from the bargain bin at...

Offhand without actually crunching the numbers I would say a glycol will end up using less in the end. Even though it isn't really the same comparison, before I built an actual chiller I used a fridge to chill my reservoir tank and pumped that through jackets. I had a heck of a time keeping...