duanestorey
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Hi guys,
I'm sort of new here, but have been lurking a long time. I'm in the process of creating a 30A/5500W brewing system with 20G Megapots.
I love all the detail on the Electric Brewery website, and am currently waiting for parts to make my own control panel. One downside to the 30A system is that you can really only do one brew at once they way they have it designed. Their 50A system has it so you can run the HLT/Kettle at the same time, but it's not that easy to use 50A in an apartment (I rent, so I can't make any real modifications).
It sounds like most people heat up the brew kettle using the manual mode at a 100% duty cycle, then dial it back to 75% or so on a 5500W element to keep it boiling. At that point there is basically spare power that could be used to get the HLT going again for another batch. So I was thinking about adding some functionality to the control panel to allow for both heaters to be turned on at the same time, one at a 75% duty cycle and the other at a 25% in manual mode. Not sure how I would make this safe, other than a 30A fuse to make sure the wire never drew more (which basically means the user can't screw this up).
On a 5500W element that's almost 1400W that can be heating the water. Based on a calculator that's enough to get 10G of water back to strike temperature in about 90 mins, which is around the duration of the boil. So I'd be able to at least start a second brew while the kettle was boiling.
Any thoughts about this?
Thanks.
I'm sort of new here, but have been lurking a long time. I'm in the process of creating a 30A/5500W brewing system with 20G Megapots.
I love all the detail on the Electric Brewery website, and am currently waiting for parts to make my own control panel. One downside to the 30A system is that you can really only do one brew at once they way they have it designed. Their 50A system has it so you can run the HLT/Kettle at the same time, but it's not that easy to use 50A in an apartment (I rent, so I can't make any real modifications).
It sounds like most people heat up the brew kettle using the manual mode at a 100% duty cycle, then dial it back to 75% or so on a 5500W element to keep it boiling. At that point there is basically spare power that could be used to get the HLT going again for another batch. So I was thinking about adding some functionality to the control panel to allow for both heaters to be turned on at the same time, one at a 75% duty cycle and the other at a 25% in manual mode. Not sure how I would make this safe, other than a 30A fuse to make sure the wire never drew more (which basically means the user can't screw this up).
On a 5500W element that's almost 1400W that can be heating the water. Based on a calculator that's enough to get 10G of water back to strike temperature in about 90 mins, which is around the duration of the boil. So I'd be able to at least start a second brew while the kettle was boiling.
Any thoughts about this?
Thanks.