Recent content by mattman7000

Thank you for your notes and your design! Yeah the contractor is back in, no problem. I just didn't add the picture because it just goes back to the first image I posted on this thread. So many people are telling me the pump speed control is a bad idea that I'm not going to experiment with that...

That outlet is supposed to be the place that I plug the timer into. Hope it is wired correctly. Here is a link to the specific timer I have: http://www.2spi.com/catalog/photo/gralab.shtml I found that fan controller on eBay. Do you think that will work for a March pump 815-PL?

Alright, so here is a version of PJs diagram with my added components and the contactor removed. Does that look correct? One thing about the original diagram is that PJ has the SSR w/ direct connection to Line 1. Won't that supply power to the SSR w/o the power button actually being turned on? I...

Good Morning! Bad News Brewery, I had a question about the contactor you mentioned that I should include as part of the main power assembly. I don't know if you've had a chance to look at the image I submitted of the PJ diagram I edited, but one thing he included in the original was a contactor...

Thanks for the input everyone. It's a March pump that I have. Has anybody read the book I'm talking about? I think Dave Miller actually uses one of these devices on his home brewery. Does anybody know of an electrician that might be able to look at the schematic? I'm new to Washington state and...

Now one of the things I was wondering about adding is a pump speed control. Dave Miller describes how to build one in his book "Brew Like A Pro" and he writes to use the Lutron FS-5F, or something equivalent. I was wondering if this item from Auber would work, here is the link...

Oh, one thing I forgot to say was that I wasn't sure what kind of fuse I would need for the timer. Anybody know?

Ok, so here's a first draft. This image I pulled from a post by PJ in response to a member named MyNameIsPaul. I only changed a couple of things. I put in the SLY-2362, which is what I have at home. I tried to wire it the way the instructions said on the Auberins website. Next I changed it from...

By the way, thank you very much to PJ for the inspiration and well thought out diagrams. They have helped me very much! I was wondering if it would be ok for me to copy and paste one of them into paint and then add the components I've been mentioning in this thread to the image and repost it so...

Ok so I checked out the thread again for the PJ diagrams and several pages into it I found something that I think is close to what might work for me. Here is the link to that page from when I clicked on the image: http://www.pjmuth.org/beerstuff/images/Auberin-wiring1-SYL-2352-basic5-RIMS.jpg...

Hello Everyone! I'm fairly new at brewing and trying to get my own version of a simple e-HERMS set up in my garage. It's a small scale set up. My BK is only 5 gal. and has a 120v heating element in it. So, I've got almost everything together for this thing, but I'm stuck on the control panel...

Hey thanks a lot for explaining that, makes more sense to me now. So 2 controllers would be the better way to go. Now for the the device that controls the fermentation chamber, I would like for it to tell my fridge to kick on when the beer in the carboy gets to warm and tell an aquarium heater...

Hello Everyone! I'm sure this is a question that will probably sound a little dumb to those that have much more experience at this than I do, but I have been scouring the forums to try to find an answer about this idea I had and have found nothing do far. I was basically wondering if there is a...