Greetings,
We recently moved to a new home with an unfinished basement. The brewery area has been properly occupied to prevent a friendly/hostile takeover.
My goal is K.I.S.S. at this point and possibly moving to full automation in the future.
I am very interested in two runs of 220 in my blank canvas. From there I am considering running a 5000 w H2O heater element on each run. One run each for the HLT and the BK. I picked the 5k heater because it sounds like it has the testicular fortitude to handle 10 gal (keggle) batches. I am open to other electrical heating suggestions. I am not worried about the (in the wall) electrical wiring aspect as the family journeyman electrician will work for beer.
I have no desire to monkey with PID type temp control or constructing some kind of control board right now. Perhaps in the future this will be of interest of desirable.
With that in mind it seems to me there has got to be a simpler way. Ideally I'd just turn a dial to control output. I hit upon the idea of using an electric oven/burner control. Can anybody provide feedback/suggestions/advice on if this idea will work or another alternative.
All on topic ideas, feedback and friendly ribbing is greatly appreciated.
Loptr
We recently moved to a new home with an unfinished basement. The brewery area has been properly occupied to prevent a friendly/hostile takeover.
My goal is K.I.S.S. at this point and possibly moving to full automation in the future.
I am very interested in two runs of 220 in my blank canvas. From there I am considering running a 5000 w H2O heater element on each run. One run each for the HLT and the BK. I picked the 5k heater because it sounds like it has the testicular fortitude to handle 10 gal (keggle) batches. I am open to other electrical heating suggestions. I am not worried about the (in the wall) electrical wiring aspect as the family journeyman electrician will work for beer.
I have no desire to monkey with PID type temp control or constructing some kind of control board right now. Perhaps in the future this will be of interest of desirable.
With that in mind it seems to me there has got to be a simpler way. Ideally I'd just turn a dial to control output. I hit upon the idea of using an electric oven/burner control. Can anybody provide feedback/suggestions/advice on if this idea will work or another alternative.
All on topic ideas, feedback and friendly ribbing is greatly appreciated.
Loptr