Right now I'm getting ready to wire up my control box, that will be controlled by a BCS460. I used to have it controlling two pumps and one 2000W 120VAC element in the HLT. but for ten gallon batches it was getting a bit slow to heat my strike/ recirculating / sparge water. I'm now going wire the HLT up with a 240VAC 5500W element.
as of right now I will still use propane to boil my wort, but in the near future I will like to have an all Electric set up. Like a lot of us I have been following Kal's Electric brewery design. My neighbor just finished his following Kal to the T...It's awesome.
But to the point. I plan on manually selecting the Kettle or the HLT element to avoid accidentally running both elements at the same time.
My question is, should I use 1 SSR to control one hot leg, and a mechanical relay for the other hot leg (Like Kal has) for each element. With a 3position switch controlling the two mechanical relays?
Or can I run two SSR's for each element with a switch between the 5vdc coming in from the BCS460 that controls the SSR's? Basically block the signal from the BSC to the element I want off.
I'm leaning to using the mechanical relays.
as of right now I will still use propane to boil my wort, but in the near future I will like to have an all Electric set up. Like a lot of us I have been following Kal's Electric brewery design. My neighbor just finished his following Kal to the T...It's awesome.
But to the point. I plan on manually selecting the Kettle or the HLT element to avoid accidentally running both elements at the same time.
My question is, should I use 1 SSR to control one hot leg, and a mechanical relay for the other hot leg (Like Kal has) for each element. With a 3position switch controlling the two mechanical relays?
Or can I run two SSR's for each element with a switch between the 5vdc coming in from the BCS460 that controls the SSR's? Basically block the signal from the BSC to the element I want off.
I'm leaning to using the mechanical relays.