Recent content by SkullStacheBrew

You can switch the power indicator light if you want. That one will work the same in either position unless your contactor fails. If that happens, the light will come on even if no power is going through in the current design. Yes, the GFCI will be tripped when the E-Stop is pressed. I guess...

This is almost the same wiring as my new system except I'm using an Arduino in place of the PID to control the heating and pump. I have a few suggestions. If you have not already purchased the switches, you do not need to connect both sides of the contactor coil through the switch. You can...

I'm currently building a single vessel system with superstrut. Very strong, easy to put together, and easy to take apart and re-due if you need to. Check out this thread for ideas on what strut is and how people have used it. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/my-weldless-build-using-strut-363128/

No, that is my RIMS heat exchanger. Temperature probe on top and electric heat element in the bottom. Here is my counterflow chiller. Pretty basic copper tube inside a hose. I think I got about 30' in it before I couldn't slide it in anymore. http://skullstachebrew.blogspot.com/

First time posting and I have to give a lot of credit to this thread. A lot of my ideas and plans came from all the different sculptures on here. I will eventually get a rolling, single tiered system like a lot of you have, but I simply do not have the room yet. I was lucky enough to have room...