Recent content by Wmeyer85

So I'm wanting to make a sour beer soon. I've done the long way of letting it sour in a fermenter and I've done a kettle sour. I want to try acidulated malt but I'm wondering if I am able to sour my mash in a plastic cooler mash tun? Will it ruin my mash tun? Should I just kettle sour? Thanks...

Thanks everyone for the help and advice. I ended up running a 10g 4 wire to the breaker and making my dryer outlet a 4 prong and running a new cable for my panel. Everything works perfectly. Now time to brew! Cheers!

Ok thanks. I'm going to change out the outlet for 4 prong and change my cable to 4 wire. It's going to be the easiest solution for my setup. Thanks everyone for the advice!

*Sorry a neutral wire coming off the power connection

What about the neutral? Everything is connected to the neutral so there wouldnt be a wore coming off the wire for that connection?

The problem is the schematics show 4 wires coming in. A red, white, black and green. But I'm using a 3 prong so I just have a black, white and green. So should I put the black where it's supposed to go or where the red should go? Its definately burning out my main contactor. Thanks again!

These are the schematics I used to build. I will have to get pictures of the box in the morning

Hey guys. To start off I'm no electrician. I got plans online to build my own 240v 30a control panel with 3000w elements. I followed all the steps and got the panel assembled. The panel turned on once it was plugged in. I have a drok volt meter on it that wont turn on. Everything else worked. As...