Recent content by brewohio

Not yet. I adjusted the offset at room temp with my Thermapen. It wasn’t off much. I think the problem is with the auto tune and how fast the probe reads. The sides, bottom and lid of my kettle is insulated. While heating the Thermapen reads higher. So I tried setting controller to manual 100%...

They emailed back and said they reached out to thermoworks and they said that ambient and external temperatures could cause false readings. Which shouldn’t cause it to read 130 if ambient temp is only 60 degrees. I wasn’t disputing that it was the right way but whatever. I plugged it in a few...

I reached out to Spike to see what they say. He asked if it was directly plugged into the wall or into a controller. Also what I used to check temp and if it was calibrated. Directly into the wall or controller shouldn’t change how hot pad gets only the duration of it being on. The Thermapen...

Even funnier I also work in the automotive field

I wish I had one of those non contact thermometers. I’m pretty sure it’s well over the 130 degrees that the thermapen is reading just being between the heater and another surface. Thank you for checking!

Just get a heater and jacket for my cf5 today. The site says it has a built in thermostat at 90 degrees for a gentle warming. I plugged this in and it gets super hot! Anyone else have a heater? I measured 130 degrees with my thermapen sandwiched between the heater and the top of my chest freezer...

Did you calibrate yours? Seems my thermapen is reading a couple degrees lower during mash. I know there is an offset adjustment but didn’t mess with it. Controller seemed to read lower then when water was heating up. Now seems to read higher during actual mash. Just using PID setting. With my...

Awesome thanks for letting me know! Sounds like I just need to pull the trigger already!

Everyone still happy with the system and it's performace and quality? Thinking about doing an a la carte with the kettle, pid controller and element. I have a hydra chiller. I'll probably just start out like my propane setup and adjust strike temp for grain temp through beersmith and insulate...

It's not that hard the material stretches a little. Just make sure the straps are long enough. Hardest part was cutting it out because I was designing on the fly. Had to cut it longer than I wanted it to wrap around the kettle to have length for the straps.

I know this is an old thread but I'm looking to go electric adding a GFCI for safety on a existing either dryer or range outlet. Looks like a good option. Do you have a build list?

This is what I did. I wrap mine around then I cut slits and tabs to hold it together. Works great.

No judgement just curious if you had a reason for it. Screws that came with my extended bracing were fairly short. Didn't seem like they screwed up into the legs all that much with the thickness of the brace and rectangle support. I went to Lowes and grabbed some ss bolts and washers. The size...

Did they send you different color handle valves or did you purchase them from another source? That would drive me nuts. Any reason you put the casters in the bottom of the legs and not in the outer threads of the extended brace? Does anyone know what the size and thread pitch of the bolts are...

Edit: **double post**