1500w water heaters for liquor tank?

Greenbasterd said:

does anybody have any experience using a 120v 1500w hot water heater for heating up a hot liquor tank to say 170f?
im thinking of using a SS 32L stock pot installing a ball valve and a 1500w water heater. the heater wouldn't need to actually heat the water as i could do that on a flame and just add it and maintain temp with the heater. But it would be a bonus if it could heat that much water in say 30mins ?


also tell me if im way out in left field here but the plan is to hook the heater up to a temp controller using the one from china, i think its called the dlc-1000? going to try and replace censor with a meat thermo and hopefully calibrate it to the new censor. i think they are only good up to 10 amp? and i think a 1500w heater can max out at 12.5a on a 120v circuit, but i don't mind pushing the limits of a 25$ device..

any advice would be appreciated before i go wasting my money learning i screwed up.

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kpr121 said:

I used a 1500 watt element in my 20 quart HLT, it took about 40-45 minutes to go from 65 to 170 with the pot completely full (I was doing multiple heats/dumps to brew).

So it can be used, but it will take you a little while.

Good luck with trying the temp controller, but I would imagine if it is rated at 10 amps, its going to have a 10 amp fuse at the very least and will pop when it sees 12.5 or 13.6 (if you use 1500/110) amps.

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