You're absolutely right! It look me a lot longer to photograph and document it than to actually build it.Wow that is detailed! It probably would have taken you far less time than writing it up if you would have just come out to my place and built the enclosure for me already!
It's done. There are only 2 parts. I figured those that are interested in part 2 are those that already ready part 1 so I posted here. The two parts go together so any questions/comments from one would also relate to the next. Unforutunately I can't edit the thread title...
Got it! Thank you for the generous donation Mark! It's truly appreciated and goes directly to help with my monthly hosting costs. (Ok, it may also help fund some future beer related projects ... which of course will be documented and posted online... )
Something that takes the content and creates PDFs from each of the articles for purchase? I'd have to code something to do that from scratch or find something to do that (I've never heard or seen anything like that).
I'm running other sites as well. One of the biggest reasons for going dedicated is previously (on shared setups) I had had my server IP blacklisted twice due to nimrods with other sites on the same server being hacked due to insecure passwords. Wasn't able to send/receive emails for many days. I've also had SQL performance problems since most ISPs tend to overload their servers. Now since I'm all alone I can only blame myself if something happens.
I don't know. I can't answer that question without some sort of drawing or understanding of what you intend to do.
The good news is that you'll still have about 1/2 as many parts as I do. I went through a ton of stuff before settling in on what I wanted to use. I even have spare working timers, switches, buttons, etc. In some cases (don't tell my wife) I bought seconds simply because I thought they would match my other controls better.
Just wait until you order the fan system I used to ventilate (the next article I'm working on)). The fan's mostly used by people who grow pot so all of the sites that sell them advertise that they ship in "discrete brown paper boxes with no labels". I hate to think I've been put on some government drug list somewhere simply because I bought a good fan.
Yup! I saw it! He mis-spelt the name so I've changed the wording on my search used on my site so that it's found when you use my links..
Mostly self taught/lots of research and reading to do what I've done here.
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Mostly self taught/lots of research and reading to do what I've done here.
With that said, I was somewhat of an electronics geek as a kid growing up which led me to go off to study electrical/computer engineering ~20 years ago. The ironic part is undergrad elec engineering doesn't really show you much of anything hands on. I spent my days doing complex math and theory like converting from frequency domain to time domain (fun stuff! :cross
Anyone with a little bit of electronics experience won't have any problems understanding the types of control panels we use here. They're actually deceptively simple as they're mostly just a few very simple switches/controls. There's no actual discrete components like resistors, transistors, capacitors, integrated circuits, etc. That sort of circuit design is far more complex.
I've been told that I have a knack at taking complex subjects and making them easy to understand. If that's true I don't know where that skill came from.
A few years ago I wanted to what's called 'greyscale and colour calibration' for my home theater (stuff that typically costs 100's of dollars to have someone come in and do for you) so I wrote a complete step-by-step DIY guide on it which has gotten good reviews. I suppose that was practice for a much more complex subject: Documenting my brewery build.
Kal
Come on Kal, knock off all the mumbo-jumbo.
I'm bettin you stayed at a Holiday Inn Express...
The shipping costs are somewhat estimates ... I usually just order everything and then click on the "request total from seller".
