buzzardman
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i got my idea from my wvo diesel car i use to have and was wondering if anyone has tried applying this idea to a brew rig. the basic idea is to take a piece of copper or stainless steel tube, connect silicone tubing to each end, one end goes to a pump the other returns to the top of cooler. then i would insert some .035 stainless steel wire into a fiberglass sleeve and wrap that wire around the stainless tube and wrap with high temp silicone tape. i would connect the wire to a dc voltage regulator to be able to control the temp of the wort coming out of the tube and just manualy control the pump and the temp for now. i would just need to figure out what length of wire to use. i have made this type of thing for a injector line heaters on my veg oil car and they worked great. not sure if it would be considered a rims or herms becuase the heating element is not in actual contact with the wort its more of a heat exchanger. picture of my idea is below.