McHandbag
Active Member
I'm in the process of building out my Brutus 10 knock-off, and i'm running into some issues with plumbing the system for propane.
I have two banjo burners for the HLT and Kettle and a smaller cast iron burner for Mash temp regulation.
My questions are as follows.
1. The small one has a 10psi regulator attached. If i want to run all three burners off the same tank, what psi do i need?
2. What type of tubing should i use if i want to attach a rigid tube setup to the rig? Black tubing from home depot? I've seen people use copper and galvanized tubing as well. Shouldn't it be high pressure tubing?
3. The Bayou Classic site sells the banjo with a 30psi regulator, but the gas guy i talked to said that was overkill. thoughts?
4. O have the orifices (orifi?) coming in for the Banjo burners. I tried to get it up and running without the orifice and a 1psi BBQ regulator and got a 2 foot yellow flame. That's obviously not the way to go. Should the flame coming out of the banjos be an short blue flame like you'd have on your home stove, or cone out more like a jet engine? Is the output rate of the flame overkill and draining my tanks too fast if it sounds like a F-16?
5. Does anyone else have a similar setup? If so, how much gas do you end up using on a typical brewday?
6. should i get a T splitter and just use black propane hoses to run the banjos independantly from the smaller MashTun burner?
As you can tell i'm at a loss and there isn't much info on this on any of the forums. The internets seems to offer contradictory info as well.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
thanks ,
Mrs. McHandbag
I have two banjo burners for the HLT and Kettle and a smaller cast iron burner for Mash temp regulation.
My questions are as follows.
1. The small one has a 10psi regulator attached. If i want to run all three burners off the same tank, what psi do i need?
2. What type of tubing should i use if i want to attach a rigid tube setup to the rig? Black tubing from home depot? I've seen people use copper and galvanized tubing as well. Shouldn't it be high pressure tubing?
3. The Bayou Classic site sells the banjo with a 30psi regulator, but the gas guy i talked to said that was overkill. thoughts?
4. O have the orifices (orifi?) coming in for the Banjo burners. I tried to get it up and running without the orifice and a 1psi BBQ regulator and got a 2 foot yellow flame. That's obviously not the way to go. Should the flame coming out of the banjos be an short blue flame like you'd have on your home stove, or cone out more like a jet engine? Is the output rate of the flame overkill and draining my tanks too fast if it sounds like a F-16?
5. Does anyone else have a similar setup? If so, how much gas do you end up using on a typical brewday?
6. should i get a T splitter and just use black propane hoses to run the banjos independantly from the smaller MashTun burner?
As you can tell i'm at a loss and there isn't much info on this on any of the forums. The internets seems to offer contradictory info as well.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
thanks ,
Mrs. McHandbag