#1) I hate that you have to prime the damn thing. Priming is a pain in the ass. I'm going to swap ball valves for ones ball valves with a waste port on them (or maybe just a spigot) to try and get rid of the air. The good thing is when it's flowing, it's got a pretty high flow rate.
#2) I have quick disconnect hoses. I couldn't figure out a way not to make a mess when swapping the hoses between pots/inlets/etc. The only thing I can think of is to add a spigot and draw off the excess liquid that way - which could double as the air release valve.
#3) I struggling with my flow order. At first I though I could have a system where I don't have to swap tubes with 2 feeds to the inlet on the pump and 2 feeds going out of the pump. Here's my flow order:
Inlet (Pull From) Outlet (Send To)
Step 1 HLT Sparge Arm MLT
Step 2 MLT Sparge Arm MLT
Step 3 MLT BK
Step 4 BK -> CHILLER -> FERMENTER
Step 5 FERMENTER -> FILTER -> KEG
It get's tricky around step 4 & 5, because up to that point, I could do 2 ball valves on the inlet and 2 on the outlet. I think the easiest thing to do would be to get another damn pump The second pump could just use 2 quick disconnects...but I'm really trying not to spend another $200 between pumps and fittings...
We're talking about a labyrinth of ball valves to run this through 1 pump! Any ideas?
#2) I have quick disconnect hoses. I couldn't figure out a way not to make a mess when swapping the hoses between pots/inlets/etc. The only thing I can think of is to add a spigot and draw off the excess liquid that way - which could double as the air release valve.
#3) I struggling with my flow order. At first I though I could have a system where I don't have to swap tubes with 2 feeds to the inlet on the pump and 2 feeds going out of the pump. Here's my flow order:
Inlet (Pull From) Outlet (Send To)
Step 1 HLT Sparge Arm MLT
Step 2 MLT Sparge Arm MLT
Step 3 MLT BK
Step 4 BK -> CHILLER -> FERMENTER
Step 5 FERMENTER -> FILTER -> KEG
It get's tricky around step 4 & 5, because up to that point, I could do 2 ball valves on the inlet and 2 on the outlet. I think the easiest thing to do would be to get another damn pump The second pump could just use 2 quick disconnects...but I'm really trying not to spend another $200 between pumps and fittings...
We're talking about a labyrinth of ball valves to run this through 1 pump! Any ideas?