cruelkix
Well-Known Member
I am going to be running two 240v Camco Ripp elements off of my 50 amp breaker. The rest of my equipment will be running off a seperate plug for all the 120v stuff. One of the Ripp elements is 5500 Watts and the other is 4500 Watts. Together they will draw 5500+4500/240 = 41.6666 Amps. I know you are suppose to follow the 80% rule but do you think 83% is really that big a deal? One is for my BK the other is for my HLT/Herms Kettle. There is a good chance that for the most part they will not be running at the same time but I started thinking that if I needed more hot water I could use my BK to heat up the initial mash in water, that way I wouldn't have to worry about running out of water for big bill brews. I'm really trying to be able to brew some high gravity 15 gallon batches out of my keggles. Does anyone else pull this off or do i need to deal with 10-12 gallon batches and live with it?
As a side note when I checked the voltage off the 50 amp plug I was actually getting 250v. That actually brings me down to 40 amps on the nose but is that the way is works? how is the heater set up? does it max out on amps or watts? Like since im running 250v am i really putting out 5500/240 = 22.92 -> 22.92 * 250v = 5729 Watts? Or am I drawing less amps?
Theres a lot of questions in there. Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Craig
As a side note when I checked the voltage off the 50 amp plug I was actually getting 250v. That actually brings me down to 40 amps on the nose but is that the way is works? how is the heater set up? does it max out on amps or watts? Like since im running 250v am i really putting out 5500/240 = 22.92 -> 22.92 * 250v = 5729 Watts? Or am I drawing less amps?
Theres a lot of questions in there. Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Craig