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The Lizard ^ is absolutely right. You gotta go 3500W for boils, 1800W is only good to heat mash/sparge water up to 170F from my experience.

those are valid points, I'm just paranoid of losing too much heat while lifting my 10g cooler top tun, hence I wait out to 30 minutes.

I've read a thing on Brulosopher's site that irish moss(and whirflock), is useless. What you wanna do is properly cold crash your boiled wort within a short time frame, then lager at near freezing point for couple days before hitting it with gelatin and racking to keg. I do this, and it works...

define properly ..

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I check mine at 30 minutes, as by that time most of the starches have converted. But don't stop there, also check your pH at boil and final beer(post fermenation) as well.

You need to go with a 3500 watt unit to properly get a vigorous boil on anything over 5 gallons. I just ordered the Avantco 3500W, but will also need to fork out $100 for an electrician to convert my wall plug to 240V.