First run on my 10 gal RIMS outfit

I gotta admit that a couple days ago I was a little apprehensive about doing a 10 gallon batch on my first run with my new RIMS outfit .... big volumes, new equipment, etc., but it turned out there was nothin to worry about ...everything worked pretty well in spite of the fact that I brewed a 10 gallon batch of IPA that uses 28 pounds of grain

here's the rig



here's the mashtun with the pump and RIMS tube



and here's a shot of the electronics


The PID and the SSR in the picture control only the RIMS tube at 115V , the PWM controller with the the 20 amp meter on it runs on 230V and I heat either the HLT or the BK with that (I only have one 230 V circuit in the garage)

My mashtun uses a circular PEX tubing manifold in the bottom and it was a little slow ...it has approx 45 of .062" holes in it ...so it was a little slow ...ok it was quite slow for sparging. Must've gotten a little stuck . Overall though, couldn't be happier with initial performance.

You need to get that SSR in an enclosure.

I noticed that after I posted the picture ..... I have an acrylic cover that I use to guard the 115v terminals

What pump is that and do you have gfi protection?

milesvdustin said:

What pump is that and do you have gfi protection?

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It's a 12Vdc pump (same as the canadian one, eh?)
all the outlets in the garage are gfi, so I'm well protected there, plus I ground the rack as too.

Here's a Before & After. the second pic is how the system looks like nowadays, It's a lot easier being with a single tier versus 3-tier. It's also great having all that storage space under the deck to store nearly all my other brewing gear .

That's certainly a cleaner setup on the after!

TheLostBeer said:

That's certainly a cleaner setup on the after!

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LOL It's a work in progress.
thanks