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Well I'm ready to transform my control panel back into the 220 30amp 5500 Watt element system. Just moved into a new house and got a 30 amp outlet installed!

This works wonderfully for me. Moisture hasn't been a problem for me. The only problem I have had is with the wiring. When opening and closing the door the wiring sometimes gets caught up on my kegs. And this also loosens the wiring in the back of the controller. I actually had wires fall out...

Wouldnt pumping the CO2 out of the fermenter cause oxygen to enter the fermenter?

Just looked at the that bostonplumbing supply site for those stainless LWD elements. Its $28 for shipping alone... thats crazy.

Well my first brew day went great! I brewed a black butte porter clone that ive been wanting to do forever. Brew day went as planned. I did have a little bit of a problem when i was recirculating at first. I had the pump pretty much wide open and i ended up creating a vacuum. I couldnt even...

Well my new contactors got here!!! Though he did only send me 30A ones... I installed them anyways because i don't need that high of ones anyways. They work like a charm and are super quiet!! Heating my water and doing an auto-tune as i type!

Ya its weird that this seems to happen so often with these contactors. they must be pretty sensitive or something.

Suyi is sending me 2 new contactors and also told me how to fix the noisy one but i just opted for a new one.

Well i believe that i have 2 faulty contactors... what are the odds? They both get 120 to the input side, both get 120 to the coil. One of them doesnt give power to the output side and one of them is really really loud.

Exactly!

Well i finished all my wiring!!! Now i just need to troubleshoot my problems. 1. Element #1 does not fire. Must be some loose wiring somewhere between the ssr/contactor?? 2. Element #2 Contactor is quite considerably louder than the other one. Might be a bad contactor?? Im getting my dads...

Im doing the same as the first diagram the pj made for me. Im hoping it works out for me.

In process of wiring it all up. it sure is tedius. Here is my layout of buttons: Wiring!:

Well i drilled most of my holes and mounted the buttons and stuff on the front. Just need to dremel the square holes for the SSR's and heatsinks and figure out where to mount everything on the inside. Then its on to painting and wiring.

Looking good!

I would do the lowest possible while still being able to screw the element in and getting a good seal for the coupling/fitting on the pot.

Simply Stunning!

So there is a hole or something in the racking tube that allows the CO2 to go down into the beer and still allows the beer to come up out of the racking cane?