- I dont like the U bar I have for draining my the basket. Too much finesse required to position the U bar while holding a heavy basket. I am either going to use J hooks or build small supports that hang from the pot handles and swing up to form a support on which the draining hooks on the basket can rest (hard to describe but Ill draw something out and post it). This way I can pull the basket out and just flip up the supports on both sides with a quick flick of my finger
I had a dream about swing out hooks on the basket to where when you pick up the basket they would just grab the rim at the top, should allow for hands free action so I can use both hands to pick up basket. I dig your solution though, looks clean and easy to use.
give or take something like this... Probably made out of some SS or Aluminum Rod and pipe.
Butterflies showed up.
Sorry to the OP for this.....but trying to help Metzen
Put a female QD on the TC fitting on your lid with a TC to 1/2" NPT hole http://www.beveragefactory.com/home...-equipment/brewing-pump/tc105-cap-12-npt.html w/ a 1/2" NPT nipple. Then put 1 male QD on to the line loc (or sprayhead) and another to your whirlpool fitting, then you can easily switch from one to the other from the bottom side of your lid and not have to thread anything through the TC port.
Similar to what I did in pics below.
Also, if you need more flow from your pump, angle the pick up tube some, on mine the flow was greatly reduced until I turned it 45degrees to allow the pick up some more "breathing room"
Nice looking butterfly. If you dont mind, where did you pick these up?
...if anyone has any easy to attach remove cleaner looking ways to do this.
Rather than have the assembly supported from the lid and the side of the kettle, you could also build an adjustable height foot to support it from the bottom (if the bottom of the assembly will be close to the floor - cant tell yet). Im not exactly sure what the bottom of the assembly will look like but perhaps you could combine a pipe hanger and threaded, adjustable rubber foot to give it support. Not sure its that much more elegant, but maybe it would look more intentional
Yes, the boil kettle is a still in fact. However if im not mistaken they dont want us talking about that hobby on this site.Man, that’s an impressive build right there. I might be wrong here, but could you Brew and distill out of this thing? (With a few small adjustments)
Yep thats how it will work. Honestly I think the weak point is the weld of the TC fitting on to the lid of the pot. That sight glass is insane heavy duty. But this is solved with hard plumbing and or the clamp to handle on the kettle. Waiting on one bloody part still and Ill get some pictures of it all fitted out.So if I understand correctly, the boil off condenses as the steam flows through to the chiller unit and then you can dump the condensate. Then, when you want to chill, you reverse the flow out the bottom of the kettle, up through the tube sheets with cold water applied and back in through the top? Also, it seems the stress point would likely be the sight glass given how much it elevates the piping over the lid.
Playing around with pump configurations too, leaning toward the small one and selling my chugger if it holds up.
oh Yea! Basket showed, forgot to post these!
I just got it off ebay. I will control the pump with the relayed 110v outlets, no need for PWM on it I can't imagine I would want anything besides on and off. I haven't tested it too much so I cant comment on the locking up after long runs. I still have my chugger pump because I have doubts as well on its reliability.Where is everyone getting the 12v pumps? I bought one before but had issues with it locking up during long periods of use. Are you controlling the pump via PID or a potentiostat?
forgive my ignorance, but what are these blue and red tagged wires?
They are my temp probes, I colored them so I could label them in the software "Red Probe" "Blue Probe" to make it easy since they are just going into thermowells and designed to be moved around.forgive my ignorance, but what are these blue and red tagged wires?
also what OS are you running and what system are you using in the control box? or are you running all this from your laptop and just showing the display on the control box display panel? I am very interested in seeing how you have this setup.
They are DS18B20s on Micro XLR connections (that sucked to solder)They look like DS18B20 temperature probes to me, I believe the plan was to design his own controls using RPi but I don't know the details.
They are my temp probes, I colored them so I could label them in the software "Red Probe" "Blue Probe" to make it easy since they are just going into thermowells and designed to be moved around.
They are DS18B20s on Micro XLR connections (that sucked to solder)....
I got my monitor all hooked up yesterday and had the slight oversight of not having a keyboard to log into the website so I will need to figure out a way to get on screen keyboard up and running but shouldn't be too hard...
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