Recent content by swanwick

FYI. I recently bought one of these carbonation keg lids because I figured it would get my beer to servable faster. All was good until I hooked up additonal kegs on the same manifold. Normally this is fine if you want the same pressure on all kegs. I have a second manifold with a regulator...

ruh-roh. I was hoping to use all the digital outs. Pin 17 indicates that it uses port 0.

Rather than get two more temp probes right now, I am going to move two of my three temp probes around for different phases of the brew. My HERMS out inline temp probe will also be used for the chiller out inline probe during whirlpooling and chilling.....will def need to make sure I do not...

@BrunDog I just changed my plumbing configuration to allow for cooling during whirlpool. Had to add two more moto-ball valves maxing my uniflex out with 11 digital outputs. When I went into software to add the last one on port 0, it is not appearing in my list of available ports. Is it...

I put some metal bubble wrap around the MLT and the BK. Even if it is not helping much, I figured for $10 it would help to limit the heat in the garage in summer and may make a bigger difference in winter. Will probably pay for itself in saved electricity at some point. With the HERMS, HLT...

Yessssss. That was the problem. #2 solved. I am fully back into script debug mode. Funny how you really need to think about simplification in order to test the script elements and then work back up to a more simulated dress rehearsal water brew once the scripts are mostly functional. My...

Ah yes. Makes sense now that i see each vessel has its own pump so that it is always at the start of the loop it is using. Can also see that you are segmenting two different parts of the loop in order to be able to use two different pumps at the same time. Picture worth a thousand words...

So, do you have three way valves at each connection point in the loop? Just opening the output and the input with a pump in-between would allow a loop to also flow back to the original output. Seems you would have to not only open an exit from the loop, but also block the continuing loop at...

Interesting, so at flameout you start running the wort through the chiller and back to the whirlpool. Hadn't thought about that. So your steps are whirlpool/chill and then chill/transport-to-fermenter. My plan was Whirlpool and then chill/transport (hose water) and then chill in fermenter...

Thank you to all who participated in the discussion of proportional valve use from late May, early June on this thread. My past rig was 3-tier so things you can do with pumps are all new to me. :) The PID settings stuff goes over my head, but may try to dig into that understanding down the...

Thanks guys. I am also going to pump wort into BK through the whirlpool inlet. My new system is electric and only 30amps which means that I can only have one of the two 5500watt elements on at a time. I am going to have to work out when is the right time to switch from using the PID to keep...

My past experience is with a 3 vessel tiered system. I am now in process building a 3 vessel single-tier HERMS system. So, I will newly have access to pumps which means I can whirlpool. I am wondering if there is any advantage to re-circulating the wort pre-boil? My hypothesis is that it...

Sweet! @swimIan , you rock! Confirmed that works. Problem #3 solved. You have better creative troubleshooting skills than me, that is for sure. @BrunDog it is definitely confusing that the naming of the Input calls for "InputPortID" while the value passed to it is just "ID" given that...

Yes, "string" leaves room for a number of different options. I have tried the device name: "HLT Temp" both in and out of quotes as well as the port ID: 200 both in and out of quotes. The device is a 1-wire analog input device that works fine in the scripting when accessing it as "HLT Temp"...

I should also note that my Element Interlock is port 26 at true and port 27 at false. I have the "HLT Heat Duty" pointing to 26 and the "BK Heat Duty" pointing to 27. I believe that is the correct way to configure, but thought i should explicitly say it in case my assumption is incorrect. I...