Brewslikeaking
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OK so somebody please help me. I'm distraught at this stage. I built this beautiful 15gallon rims system complete with a very good pump and a brau supply mini controller.
I plugged it in for the first time and the circuit blew. I flipped it up and the whole apartment blew. Base circuit needed to be flipped. So here's my question.
I installed a 120v 1650watt heating element and plugged it into a 120v 1500watt temperature controller(brau supply mini controller) I then plugged the controller into the wall outlet which is on a 20amp circuit. And the circuit kept blowing. Since I connect the two is the wattage 1650 + 1500 = 3150watts and a 20amp circuit can only handle 20ax120v = 2400watts?
If I'm right in the above circumstance (which I doubt I am) then no outlet in the apartment will he able to handle the heating element and controller.
Also worth noting that I made a mistake that probably screwed things up to begin with. I plugged in the element to the controller then to the pump and then into the outlet WITHOUT WATER IN THE KETTLE and it was on for a few minutes before the circuit blew.
This made the coating on the element completely burn off and when I cleaned it up and put water in the kettle and tried to turn it all on again the circuit blew AGAIN. I don't have a 240v outlet so that's why I built this system. I realize a 15gallon pot is too big for the 120v system but I'm not going to brew more than 5 gallons in it.
Please help. I spent a lot of money on all of these parts and I'm very upset it's not working once I finally tried to brew with it.
Thank you
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I plugged it in for the first time and the circuit blew. I flipped it up and the whole apartment blew. Base circuit needed to be flipped. So here's my question.
I installed a 120v 1650watt heating element and plugged it into a 120v 1500watt temperature controller(brau supply mini controller) I then plugged the controller into the wall outlet which is on a 20amp circuit. And the circuit kept blowing. Since I connect the two is the wattage 1650 + 1500 = 3150watts and a 20amp circuit can only handle 20ax120v = 2400watts?
If I'm right in the above circumstance (which I doubt I am) then no outlet in the apartment will he able to handle the heating element and controller.
Also worth noting that I made a mistake that probably screwed things up to begin with. I plugged in the element to the controller then to the pump and then into the outlet WITHOUT WATER IN THE KETTLE and it was on for a few minutes before the circuit blew.
This made the coating on the element completely burn off and when I cleaned it up and put water in the kettle and tried to turn it all on again the circuit blew AGAIN. I don't have a 240v outlet so that's why I built this system. I realize a 15gallon pot is too big for the 120v system but I'm not going to brew more than 5 gallons in it.
Please help. I spent a lot of money on all of these parts and I'm very upset it's not working once I finally tried to brew with it.
Thank you
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