What did all that SS cost?
Is the tee for drainage? I hadn't thought about the U-shape. I like...
Seems overkill for maintaining mash temp.
Will this be for heating the liquor tank as well?
Edit: Just realized you have no liquor tank
More of a flash boiler than a RIMS?
is it going to be to heat your sparge water instantly? instead of a flash boiler or pressure cooker or hlt?
What are the three inputs for? In out and temp?
Hmm, if you used one street L and one regular, you wouldn't need the coupling. Just sayin.
Any thought to a longer tube with an element in each end?
Aesthetics... that is the reason for the coupling, symmetry
Too long, I am also hoping that this will create a little turbulence to combat laminar flow along the elements. Better mixing, better readings, stuff like that perhaps.
Pol:
How did you calculate the time to raise 10 gallons from 60F to 160F? I think you used an oversimplified approach that may not apply to your system. This is complex system involving heat transfer and flow. Furthermore, you will never get wort flows anywhere close to 10 gpm - you will be limited by your grain bed way before you are limited by your LG pump.
What's done is done. That thing is awesome. :rockin: But, when people copy your design (and they will), you could probably go with an even shorter nipple in the center and decrease heat loss in the system.
Is it 1-1/2" pipe?
I know you've done your power calculations, but why not just go balls out with 2x5500W LD elements and taper the output with the BCS-460?
You need to wheel this thing to Dark Lord days in Iindiana in April so we can drool over it is person Surely they have an outlet you can plug into
3 Floyds brewing Company. You should come. Me and the wife are planning on it.
The TriClamps are pretty reasonably priced, but I limited them to where I need to make and break connections. This is not an issue on the heater, so they dont exist here.
Cleaning wont be an issue by recirculating hot Oxi, I used that on my old system and it cleans amazingly well! I built this with a drain, so after cleaning, I can drain/dry the RIMS heater.
You running QD's or hose barbs? It looks like hose barbs in you build thread. How do you plan to dry it? Dry fire the elements? Blow compressed air through it?
The condensate will take a while to dry up in there. There wont be any air movement through it. Just another thought.
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