I can go to almost any hardware store around here and get a 50A range cord that is 6/4 for WAYYYYY less than $4.50 per foot. Yeah, 10' for $18
Where can I find a male 50A 4 prong receptacle for the rig? Never seen one.
Honestly I dont think I am stupid enough to crawl on the floor to unplug my rig BEFORE unplugging from the wall. But to appease the masses... sure, where do I get one?
The plan for the detachable cord isnt to remove it between brew sessions, but to remove it for when the rig is on display in the house.
I see your point, but didnt figure I had an option for a 50A male 4 prong receptacle on the stand itself.
Where can I find a male 50A 4 prong receptacle for the rig? Never seen one.
Honestly I dont think I am stupid enough to crawl on the floor to unplug my rig BEFORE unplugging from the wall. But to appease the masses... sure, where do I get one?
The plan for the detachable cord isnt to remove it between brew sessions, but to remove it for when the rig is on display in the house.
I see your point, but didnt figure I had an option for a 50A male 4 prong receptacle on the stand itself.
SSRs were Ebay finds
Ohio-Ed, I'd like to see what you come up with for a power supply. I asked about this a couple weeks ago, got some suggestions as to a simple circuit. I plan to go from my 24v transformer to the 6v for the BCS.
Gotcha... I went with SOOW cord. Thought maybe you had an online source.
Are you doing something similar for connecting your elements to your box?
So Pol, how are you getting around a panel? I figure even with the BCS you're going to want a small switchboard for manual override of elements/pumps.....
Take a look at this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/RV-5..._Camper_Parts_Accessories?hash=item4140c79985
There is also a female counterpart available.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...kparms=algo=SI&its=I%2BC&itu=UCI&otn=10&ps=63
http://www.stayonline.com/detail.aspx?ID=8773
The female counterpart is at the bottom of the page in the related items box. Looks like the whole get up would be 125 bones.
Here is an ebay one. the ground pin is on the outside edge of the receptacle.
What you want to look for is a 50 amp flanged male inlet.
It sayes zero cross all over the spec sheet, I presume they are zero cross.
Today I hope I will be testing out my BCS to run my HLT and pump. I did a wet run last night with the heating element,(120vac 2000watt) on manual mode and over shot the target temp by 1º. I have crydom 25A SSR's, and am planing on using one to run my march pump to transfer the single infusion, and the sparge. Over the next few months I plan on utilizing more of the BCS.
I let you know if I blow up.
So far my impression of it is the interface is fairly easy to figure out, it is possible to hook it up wireless, and there is an iPhone app to run it as well.
Okay, NEW question.
For all you BCS users, how are you controlling your pump ON/OFF with it?
SSR?
Mechanical Relay?
Combination?
You have until 8pm to give me a solution to this apparent problem!
They are Crydom D24D25, I think I payed $10 each on ebay for them. I only picked them because that seemed to be what most people on the ECC board where using, and they where with in my amperage range. My element maxes out the system at ~18amps.
Hopefully I will get out to the garage and brew in the next few hr's.
I just put a $45 ZERO CROSSING SSR relay on the line for you guys.
As I thought, it drives a march pump just fine. Some one fed you a line so quit your worrying.
That looks like a viable solution. Thanks for your help.
Do you have more details on those boards ? I'm starting to layout a couple for my BCS build and would like to see what you did there.Here are those boards I was talking about, I had 2 of them.
If there is enough interest/demand I could make a board specifically to work with the BCS. The one on the right is attached to the logic and DI board if your wondering.
I just put a $45 ZERO CROSSING SSR relay on the line for you guys.
As I thought, it drives a march pump just fine. Some one fed you a line so quit your worrying.
I just read through a bunch of messages relatd to the zero vs non-zero crossing ssr's... In a nutshell, I think SawDustGuy suggested the zero-crossing woulf run a pump, the problem is related to what happens on the control side when you run an inductive load? Does that make sense? With that in mind, do you think we are ok to use zero crossing ssr's with a BCS to control pumps?
(Just trying to get this down to a level I can understand)
Thanks
Ed
What? I don't understand why zero crossing would affect the operation of an inductive load. Some one mentioned something about opto isolators. I haven't seen an SSR without an opto on the control line. The ones from auber have optos, unless you got them some where else show me the spec sheet.
Jumping into something I really don't know a lot about here... but what about a Reed Relay? SWMBO dragged me out this morning and while she was shopping for shoes, I walked into a Radio Shack. I found a 5vdc coil Reed Relay, but it's only rated at .5a 120vac. It was $2.99. Would a 2amp version of this work directly with the BCS?
Ed
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