Jps101
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Before I get too fr into this, thank you to all on here who have contributed in the past. Whether it was a wiring diagram, a panel layout, element size, etc. I have borrowed many ideas from this forum and am grateful.
I built a 20amp, 2000w system (pic attached). I tested with water, ran auto tune, everything worked as expected and as planned.
So along comes the brewday. I was planning to make a 2.5 gallon batch of "Balast Point - Sculpin IPA". All started off fine, water heated from 64* to 152* in 24 min. Did learn that my Amazon purchased kettles
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IKN4WK/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
are not in fact 20 quarts which should by my math be 5 gallons. Instead the largest is only 4 gallons. Nonetheless I was able to get 6.8 pounds of grain along with 3.5 gallons of water (2.0 qts/lb water ratio) into the pot. Started up the pump to recirculate, turned on the element and away we go. This is where things took a turn. Started to hear a sound that I have not heard to this point in all of my testing or even heating of water. Turn off element = no sound?! Turn on element on more time, this time I start to smell something new...turn off element. Reluctantly pull the grain bag only to have grain start to fall out of the bottom. You will see in the second picture that the element burned a hole in the grain bag.
Element is a CAMCO 2000w heating element model number 02202
Grain bag was made from voile material purchased at walmart
I have read numerous times that individual set their grain bag on the element with no issues. Obviously not my experience.
My question to you...what went wrong?
I built a 20amp, 2000w system (pic attached). I tested with water, ran auto tune, everything worked as expected and as planned.
So along comes the brewday. I was planning to make a 2.5 gallon batch of "Balast Point - Sculpin IPA". All started off fine, water heated from 64* to 152* in 24 min. Did learn that my Amazon purchased kettles
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IKN4WK/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
are not in fact 20 quarts which should by my math be 5 gallons. Instead the largest is only 4 gallons. Nonetheless I was able to get 6.8 pounds of grain along with 3.5 gallons of water (2.0 qts/lb water ratio) into the pot. Started up the pump to recirculate, turned on the element and away we go. This is where things took a turn. Started to hear a sound that I have not heard to this point in all of my testing or even heating of water. Turn off element = no sound?! Turn on element on more time, this time I start to smell something new...turn off element. Reluctantly pull the grain bag only to have grain start to fall out of the bottom. You will see in the second picture that the element burned a hole in the grain bag.
Element is a CAMCO 2000w heating element model number 02202
Grain bag was made from voile material purchased at walmart
I have read numerous times that individual set their grain bag on the element with no issues. Obviously not my experience.
My question to you...what went wrong?
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