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Has anybody come up with a good way of doing this? I looked into it a while ago when I built my electric HLT but the consensus was grains in contact with a heating element was bad. I am now considering installing it to the lid of my Igloo cooler straight down spaced so that it is near the...

Theres another change you can make, I think with the Hy that can allow a 1 second cycle time. I cant remember exactly what it was but mine is set so that if I set it to 50% the light is on for half a second and off for half a second.

I'm a homebrewer out here in Roseville too. I haven't had too much luck finding others in the area with the same addiction (brewing, not drinking.) Sounds like you guys are local, ever stop by the Diamond Plate? It would be cool to meet a few HBTers.

I have no problem resting the IC on the element, my only issue is with the rare 5 gallon batch where I only have about 2 gallons of water over my element and very little IC contact with the wort. In hindsight I could have mounted my element a little lower but seeing as where I am now I'm...

Has anybody tried making their IC coil sideways so that it can slide over the element? I'm thinking about doing this but havn't sat down next to my equipment since I came up with the idea.

SAM 0236

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Inside the old control panel

The control panel ver.2

Insulated keg