That's great! There's nothing better than planning out a 240v control box while drinking heavily! (it helped me anyway)
Helps me think outside the control box :cross:
That's great! There's nothing better than planning out a 240v control box while drinking heavily! (it helped me anyway)
Ok, so you think three of these will work?
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/POWER-FIRST-Toggle-Switch-2VLT7?Pid=search
Also can I use one six circuit terminal block like this one, instead of three?
jsguitar said:Thanks zacc, I'm completely out of home brew so I'll be brewing next weekend too. I can't let myself run out again!
Funny thing, last night just after I posted we had a power outage. Omen? Hope not. I hope that never happens when I'm brewing!
Budgets suck!
This weekend I'm going to build a bench like the one Kal made and a matching Vent hood like the one here.
The other major thing I want to do is figure out is how to finish my walls. I have a floor drain right in the room which is awesome but it's close to the door and wall framing so it's impossible not to get the door and wall framing wet.
I am going to try my hardest to produce pictures tomorrow, I just built a control panel after your setup here. Almost identical in the front (don't have vinyl letters yet) and finally powering my kettles after a short test/cleaning run tonight. I built a 2 tier stand so just running 1 pump. It was dark before I was able to start cleanup tonight, but unless something stops me I will post some pictures of yet another electric brewery that was inspired by this board (and real close to your setup).
Well that took long enough. Here are a few pictures from the first test run of my setup. Still need letters for the control panel, and a mount for my timer, but it works.
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I did 5500w elements, the control panel is pretty close to your's except that I ran conduit under the shelf where I mounted each of the outlets, so I ended up with a bit more room inside the control box (which helped keep my sanity).
I've been slowly getting my build done. I took this friday off and have a 4 day weekend now. I plan on spening most of the time working on the brewery and hope to finish it up and have it ready for its first batch the following weekend.
The control panel is pretty close to being done. After that i still have a lot of little things to wrap up. I need to;build the vent hood, build electric control for vent, run vent duct, finish the spa box, install the elements in kettles, stain the bench, and all the other little details.
Here's a picture of my control box as of last night. After this weekend I should have a lot more pictures to post.
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