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Hook up the discharge of the pump to the wort inlet, wort outlet to inlet of flow meter. If my attached picture works (which was taken during a fly sparge, I was using the rims to maintain sparge water temp), the rims gets swapped out for the heat exchanger. I use a longer hose on the pump...

Why? The top has an rtd?

Do two five gallon batches, problem fixed :)

My system Ramps up quick b/c I have the rims rocket, once the grain temp is close to 168 (167 or so) I start the 10 min clock...my ramp time is somewhere around 10 mins to get the GRAIN temp to 168...my wort temp hits 168 in a minute or so. If I'm gonna have a mash start to get stuck, it's...

Not sure about scorching impact on ph, but I wonder about water ph, and grain ph (they aren't fixed values)

Sorry I haven't posted, I've been busy designing my own commercial brewery, just signed a lease. Once I set up my lab scale brewery I promise to get pictures and video to share with ya'll.

What efficiency are you talking about? 70% conversion, or 70% brewhouse? I'm talking about the conversion, I use brewers friend as well. My conversions are upper 80's low 90's. Brewhouse is in the mid 70's. Prior to my process changes brew days were longer and efficiencies weren't anywhere...

Only issue is you want to maintain you liquid level constant when sparging, the autosparge obviously works great for that. Your goal on the sparge is to have "slug" flow of sparge water that strip wort from the grain. You'll need to have wort leaving the mt while the hlt is maintaining level...

I'll also suggest using dme or lme to hit your og

Agreed. I made marks on my bucket, bk, and mt by putting in one gallon of water at a time.

Efficiency will be low because you never wash the grain with clean water (sparge). You are now where I was a few months back. You can't dial back your mash water volume too much if you have the electric coil in the bk. With gas that may be an option. Even a 1 gallon fly sparge will have a...

I'll make a video on my next brew day, should be in a week or so. My mash efficiencies are really high, 80 to 85%, my cleaning process is decent too (just time consuming) Being a former process engineer, optimization is in my blood. I put marks of my sight glasses with a sharpie so I know...

I also use a 300 micron filter that I purchased from Utah biodiesel. I've made some damn good session ipas that I'm going to try scaling up in my 10 bbl brewery, so I haven't experienced any issues with those filters to date.

I use the hop blocker, never had a problem

Gustatorian - You are correct regarding autotune, when the green light is off, it's done auto tuning. You can scroll through and see what the new values are for pid. I'll take photos and/or quick video next time I brew, should be in the next few weeks. Post 595 shows the system, only...

What is the flow rate of your mash? Since you aren't using a grant to absorb minor process fluctuations, you need to be tightly control your flow as you're pumping directly from the mt, if not you'll stick your mash. Since I use the full TOP, I can easily see my flow, and I adjust the flow for...

Fill up your system with water and run the auto tune. See the PDF link http://www.mrclab.com/Media/Doc/DTA-4848OPR.pdf looks pretty familiar, eh? There are some differences, but with the manual I was able to find "at". See page 4 of the manual. To get auto tune "at" to show up on the TOP...

Check out post 595 by me, it has a picture when I'm fly sparging. Yes, using the rims rocket and loving it. When I mash, the mt is hooked up to the pump inlet, instead of the hlt during the sparge. You only need one top controller, may slightly delay you getting the bk going, but for $500 I...

Nope. During the mash, the bk is basically a real expensive stainless steel stand that the mt rests on. I hook up the mt directly to the pump. Pump discharges to rims rocket, rims rocket outlet to my full TOP, which discharges into the autosparge. I manually adjust the flow to 3 lpm per the...

I do use autosparge and use the top, what I eliminated was the 2+gallons of wort in the bk (b/c you need to keep electric coil immersed in wort). I can either put that water into making a thinner mash if I have a high grain bill, or into the hlt. My efficiencies are pretty high, in line with any...