thelorax121
Well-Known Member
So I am thinking of putting a rims tube together with a 240V 5000W HD element, and running it at the full voltage to heat up my strike and sparge water on its way from the filter to the HLT, then switching it to 120V and effectively making it a LD element when running wort through it as a RIMS. So my query is, what is the best way to wire a switch for this?
I have separate 120V and 240V inlets on my control panel, and I was thinking of either a 2-way switch with one NO contact and one NC contact with, one with a hot line from the 240V bus and another with a neutral line from its respective bus, then running each of them to the outlet for the element (my 240V service and therefore receptacles are 3 line by the way, hence the additional 120V inlet). Does this sound like it would work? Would it be wiser to use a 3 position switch like the one on Kal's build for selecting elements to ensure a clean break in the connection before switching the lines? Or is this a stupid idea to begin with, and if so is there a safer/easier/more effective way to accomplish this that I am overlooking? Thanks in advance for the input, it always helps to have a few minds working out a problem...
I have separate 120V and 240V inlets on my control panel, and I was thinking of either a 2-way switch with one NO contact and one NC contact with, one with a hot line from the 240V bus and another with a neutral line from its respective bus, then running each of them to the outlet for the element (my 240V service and therefore receptacles are 3 line by the way, hence the additional 120V inlet). Does this sound like it would work? Would it be wiser to use a 3 position switch like the one on Kal's build for selecting elements to ensure a clean break in the connection before switching the lines? Or is this a stupid idea to begin with, and if so is there a safer/easier/more effective way to accomplish this that I am overlooking? Thanks in advance for the input, it always helps to have a few minds working out a problem...