Tri clamp heating element?

[Cody s]

Hi all,
Thinking about building an electric kettle a using a 10 gallon boil kettle with a tri clamp 120 volt immersion heater. If this works I would continue the idea on to an HLT.
Any one done this or have any thoughts?

 

[Bobby_M]

If it works? You mean even after 100,000 homebrewers are running electric systems, you're not convinced yet? ;-)

The primary issue you're going to have is that of speed when running on 120v. If you're hoping to get 7 gallons to boil pretty quickly (and a rolling boil at that) you'll have better results with a 240 element or two 120v elements per kettle.

 

[JeffersonStateBrewing]

I have done this with 220 for distilling in the past. I don't know about the immersion heater, but with a good, even simple, controller this should work fine.