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I think the arduino would be a good place to start personally. They even sell them at Radio Shack now, and there are a ton of projects you can do with them. Fairly inexpensive too. You can start out with simple circuits, just turnimg leds on and off at first. It isn't much of a step to then...

mpj-k-f for a mini panel jack for use with type k thermocouple. Nmp-k-m for a mini plug for type K thermocouple Then you don't have to worry about any extra cold junctions.

Sanity check: Is the relay latching? Since you are measuring an rtd, verify that there is current present. I'm not familiar with the auber controller, do I don't know what the current should be. 488 micro amps is what I have seen in other devices. Did you get a 2, 3, or 4 wire rtd? The...

I got the same pump. 25' of 3/8 in copper tubing $15 10' of 3/8 in hose $5 2 hose clamps $1.50 Fountain Pump $10 5 minutes of time And I have an ugly, yet functional chiller: It got just over 5 gallons of wort down to 80 degrees in under 20 minutes. I kept it going to get the temp...

Kind of like when you find a $20 bill or something in your winter jacket when you get it out in the fall. You get all excited until you realize it was your money to start with. I'm guilty of this myself. I'm going to get the equipment to go to all grain. I'm thinking just a single cooler...

That is what I thought. So I kept most of the yeast and discarded most of trub. I wasn't too concerned since as I said, the fermentor is happily bubbling away using the yeast I washed.

Plus you get free Dilbert comics with every order. I also get a kick out of their packaging tape.

Depending on the unit, it will either have an internal temperature probe that they use to correct for the cold junction, or it will apply a constant correction and assume the controller will always be the same temperature. They may also ignore this transition, and assume the voltage is correct...

I learned that I probably screwed up my first attempt at yeast washing. I decanted the top, kept the "middle layer", and tossed the "bottom layer" The guy I was talking to this weekend said the bottom layer is the yeast, then the trub, then the top layer is beer/water. The yeast I...

I have the same problem, however I suspect it is due to the stir bar being too long, and the magnets not quite perfectly matching the stirbar. I wish I had a bad hard drive to gut so I could try the HDD magnet, but all of mine are currently working. One thing that I did, is I mounted the...

That is correct, provided you don't use a gold plated plug in a standard jack. The key here is the splice goes from thermocouple wire to splice wire and back to thermocouple. Solder may introduce a bit of inaccuracy into the system, I'm actually not totally sure on that. When connecting...

You don't have to worry about using a different material for splicing thermocouple wire provided the material being used is the same on both sides (for example, using a copper barrel splice) and the transition from thermocoiple wire to splice material and back again happens at the same...

There is actually already another thread about this, located here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/great-deal-beginners-kit-though-midwest-livingsocial-com-385410/ There is a groupon for it as well: http://www.groupon.com/deals/midwest-hydroponic-and-homebrewing-supplies-llc

Here is the kit that I bought: http://www.midwestsupplies.com/brewers-starter-kit-bundle.html There is currently a Groupon for this kit for $62 http://www.groupon.com/deals/midwest-hydroponic-and-homebrewing-supplies-llc With it, you can do extract brews and partial mash brews, and the...

yea I know you can't go solely on airlock activity, I only mention 3 days of no activity to illustrate that it probably wasn't too soon to check the gravity. It has been in the fermenter for 6 days now. I just wasn't sure what to expect with tasting the gravity sample, I'd seen it mentioned...

What is the rough comparison between a completed/bottled beer and tasting the sample pulled for gravity testing? I just opened my fermenter up on my first brew to check the gravity, the airlock activity has been nil for 3 days now. It is 0.002 g/cm^3 high currently, (1.014 vs 1.012 per the...

I was thinking I'd get an 8 gallon stock pot for now, as that would still work with my stove top. I figure anything bigger will require getting an actual burner, and it isn't exactly warm here right now, so boiling water outside might be problematic. Besides, having BOTH isn't such a bad thing...

I've got my first brew in the fermenter right now. It wasn't too bad, but I can tell I am going to need a bigger brew pot, as the one I have is just a little on the small side. Now I just have to sit and wait.

Hello all, Total newbie here. I have yet to brew anything yet, though that should be changing here real soon. I ordered this starter kit: http://www.midwestsupplies.com/brewers-starter-kit-bundle.html through Groupon (Still active...