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I have a 70 quart mash tun b/c 1. Rather have it and not need it instead of vice versa, I have over flowed it! 2. My session beers start at 7% abv 3. I have room to grow. There is some dead space, but if the tun is calculated for and well insulated it's not a problem.

Thanks a ton jfkriege

So I guess for my peristaltic pumps I need to be on a different circuit..

That would be insane huh...maybe an idea for later. The three are used in: 1 for the HLT, 1 for the MT and 1 for the kettle. Also, if I have something plugged in another outlet while the heating element is on what happens? Do I draw too many amps?

I'm trying to build a 1 gallon automated brew system for test batches. My goal is to plug a single control box into a residential wall outlet to power the rig. Based on my understandings of explanations here, expecting 3X 110V 1500W to do that is dumb. I assume that if I wired all three up...

Good to know. Also, I don't plan on standing anywhere near this thing during testing. Think I'm going to shove it in a cargo container.

This is very useful information, thank you. I don't seriously expect to reach 600F, I am planning on putting a corney keg pressure relief stem into it. How much PSI are those rated for?

The energy put into this limitedly closed system will not escape as vapor and of course I plan to reduce the radiant heat loss with insulation. I believe it will be better than sticking the element straight in the wort because the contents will be under pressure and able to reach higher...

The big boys also use calandria's. The energy savings and higher boil off rate are the goal, as well as using one element for two purposes. If I remember correctly, and I might not, by putting the heating element in a sealed container I should increase it's effectiveness through less heat...

The sealed pressurized heat exchange widget could serve double duty as a HERMS and external calandria with the proper control. One heating element, two over engineered brewing improvements is my hope.

Using a calandria is just a more efficient way to get a rolling, intense boil. Cycling the wort through the superheated coil and into a kettle "top hat" will speed up/enhance the positive properties of the boil in less time through a thermosiphon action and high heating phase. I guess I...

I plan on using a PID controller to keep mash and sparge temps appropriate and super heating during the boil. Pros report a very intense boil and 10% evaportaion rates in a third less time.

Catt22, That and an emphatic "no!" Is exactly what my wife told me when I described how I wanted to refine titanium from white paint.

I hope to make it compact yes. I'm guessing based on your response is that necessity has not bred the need for such a thing. My idea is that water would not be cycled through the HERMS outer shell, it would not be converted to steam. Strike/sparge water would still move through the coil...

This weekend I plan on prototyping an idea I had. I'm going to set a 110V 1500W heating element in a black pipe with a copper tube coil inside. My theory is that by sealing water inside I can superheat the HERMS water making better use of energy. I'm working on adding a safety release valve...

I know why it's done, doesn't necessitate that it can serve only one purpose. I just wonder if anyone has wasted the time or can do the math to see what would happen if you kept doing it and if/how the characteristics of the wort changed.

I was thinking about the benefits of really long volraufs not just for clarity of maltose concentration. It's a not well thought out mental experiment so far but essentially is like removing a vessel from a 2 vessel Brutus like system. 1. Would wort gravity get higher if I vorlauf the...

You and me both.

I'm a gruit brewer with a system right now that can make 10 gallons of barley wine. It's too big to do the recipe experimentation and tweeking I want to do so I've begun building a smaller system, a 1 gallon automated to hell electric brewery. The Pygmy Brewery: Currently I'm designing...

I want to keg 2 bbl's and am designing a system around it. I'm looking for help filling in the gaps or see what I've missed working backwards to size my vessels. Serving Container: 4 american kegs Fermenter: This is my first gap in knowledge and from what I've seen there's not a quick...