Recent content by jtrainer

The bark is my favorite portion... bark on meat is wonderfully delicious. Bark on the fat, I'll take it or leave it. If I don't trim enough of the fat off that gelatinous glob of energy can be a bit much for mouth feel. I do a pork shoulder a couple of times a year. Heavenly.

Yup those appear to be the same ones. I Found the link after the fermtrack mention. Much appreciated brutha.

I just can't seem to find a hat/shield for the D1 mini for my relays that seems right. Not sure why... but these little purple boards ya'll are using, where is a link to them? I want to recover my Pi4 for another use and am interested in dabbling with brewpiless...

This is pretty neat and priced just right for my cheapness. The only thing I'd love to see is getting the data to stick. I was looking to run it on my Raspberry Pi that runs CraftBeerPi which I use to manage my fermentation Freezer and my kegerator. Thought I'd put a display on it as it...

Why not use the ball valve to regulate the pump speed/flow and regulate it down super slow?

I only use it for cooling. Being in SoCal the heating is typically not needed as the heat generated by the fermentation in my freezer seems to keep it going just fine. I do use CBPI 4 to manage both my fermentation freezer and my kegerator. For the kegerator I have extra actors (fans) to...

Won't work for me, laundry is at the other end and upstairs. Every time I look/have time to do this, the rain hits. I don't want to muck with the box in the rain for some reason...

I am comfortable with the task. I chatted with my cousin who is a retired certified electrician and with all considerations of use and expectations, I'm going with 10 AWG. I got outrageous quotes from 4 electricians and decided to save nearly $900 on the job. I was just not understanding...

WTH, not one of you posts a burger with a dripping egg on it... Egg makes it soooo much tastier too. I guess I'll have to go to Burger Bench and have a beer and burger. Take the dog for his puppy patty too.

@KegLand While I ready my new BZG4 environment for brewing and preparing to debunk these sparge issues ppl are complaining about, can you answer me this... Why did you choose to affix the NEMA 6-30P on the BZG4 35L when its documented for 11 AMP? Surely a NEMA 6-20 would have been fine or...

I agree to disagree... You are right, 20 + years ago we had no automation. Dials and knobs, watching the flame... We built our rigs and rebuilt them to solve issues and learned from our mistakes. Learned what worked for Denny, Drew, may not work for my setup... That said, there is now high...

Both of you have valid and great points. Like BobbyM, I couldn't find a reason why this couldn't be 15 Amp, maybe 20 for 55% utilization numbers. But as Mashdr pointed out, do I really feel like modifying the cord... legal/warranty, etc. So to keep costs down, I guess I could drag 10AWG wire...

Per Kegland/MoreBeer, the Gen 4 needs 2400 watts at 240v, so 11 Amps. However the unit ships with a Nema 6-30 plug. I can build a new garage circuit for 30 Amps and 10 gauge wire, but account for 80% NEC requirement and ampacity of the wire should be 8 gauge 30X80% = 37.5 . I only expect 11...

Homer buckets, 2 per sack. I had no issues with bugs. Add the collar lid that is gasket and screw on lid.