Recent content by edd101

I see- so the liquid on the sides of the malt pipe is not the issue in efficiency. Only the liquid at the very bottom near the element? It's a bit counter intuitive as you would think the top of the sides would be getting the least interaction with the grains. Asking because I was curious what...

It 100% does. The liquid level in the malt pipe rises. The liquid level outside the malt pipe goes does down. The reason being the pump is adding liquid to the malt pipe faster than liquid can flow out the bottom. Whether the pros outweigh the cons is another question though haha. I agree...

I actually increased my efficiency a lot by increasing the pump flow (which they warn you not to do). I suspect this works because it fills up the malt pipe and lowers the amount of water on the side. Of course you have to be carefull not to overflow and it probably wouldn't work on larger...

The anvil foundry the manual states that it's very important that that every 15 minutes you rake the top third of the grains. I don't love doing this as it's kind of akward for one person to shut off the pump, remove the lid , remove the hot preforation disk , and make sure you don't lower the...

I have a small fermentation chest freezer. The bottom section is 16.5" x 13 3/8" . After 8 inches from the bottom, the freezer opens up to be much wider than 13 3/8". I understand the Speidel 7.9 is 13.5" wide, though it has a tapered profile. Can someone confirm what the width of the...

Hmm, so I used this calculator Dilution And Boiloff Gravity Calculator - Brewer's Friend And it says to go from 1.037 of 1.2 gallons of wort, to 1.025, to add .58 gallons of water. That's almost a 50% increase yield of the recipie. Seems like way too much. Though I think the math is slightly...

Ugh you were right, did not get anywhere near the FG called by the recipe 1.012 -1.022. Ended at 1.037 / 12.9% abv My understanding is this will be drinkable, but very sweet. I was ideally going for a semi sweet. I'm considering the following, any you think may be worth pursuing? 1. Do...

So I'm attempting to follow this recipie Beginner Traditional. I have FermFed, which I understand from googling is the equivilent of Fermaid K which contains DAP. I checked the recipe calculator here: BatchBuildr - MeadMakr , and it says I need to add Fermaid K , DAP, and go-ferm. Think I...

Yeah, it's fully charged, about 15 feet from the router through two drywalls. Plastic bucket in a chest freezer. What threw me off is it works perfectly during the first 15 minutes. I think when it's in the transmit on X interval mode, not only does it (obviously) transmit less often, but the...

Oh it's nothing in their documentation I was just calling it that. 1) active high battery use mode that is triggered upon plugging into USB C. Sends fairly constant updates to the cloud, and also allows your device to connect directly for calibration and diagnostics. 2) After ~15 min the device...

Yeah the issue is after it exits mode 1 it will never update again. Not even after a day. 15 minutes would be fine :)

Yeah literally I will put in the wort, close it up. It will report gravity fairly constant for 10-15 minutes. And then go radio silent.

Right (as far as I can tell) there are two modes 1) active high battery use mode that is triggered upon plugging into USB C. Sends fairly constant updates to the cloud, and also allows your device to connect directly for calibration and diagnostics. 2) After ~15 min the device deactivates its...

Does anyone have issues with their Pill not sending any data at all? It works perfectly in direct wifi mode. -39dbm, can upload telemetry manually to the cloud works great. Once the device enters the refresh every X (in my case 20 minutes) mode, I never hear from it again. The above issue is...

My understanding is due to patents, nobody can sell anything similar to a tylt in the U.S. I'm look at a retailer in Canada who ships the float hydrometer to the U.S. called Mountain Parameters. Though the sketchy thing is they ask for payment by Zelle, otherwise there is a heavy surcharge...