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P-J is awesome. He is knowledgeable and very generous with sharing it and helping others. However, all aspects of building a controller like this require skills - either skills you have, or skills you need to acquire. Wire stripping, crimping, soldering, cutting and drilling into metal...

Here it is:

Sure thing. I will see if I can dig it up when I get home from work.

You may want to check out this thread as well: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f170/anyone-using-high-gravitys-ebc-ii-control-286565/

Antler, I see this post is a couple of weeks old. Are you still looking for feedback?

From Michigan here where the outside temp was 6 degrees F on Saturday morning and my garage was about 35 degrees before I turned the heater up to about 50 degrees, there is a much longer lag in the time it takes the temps to equalize. I measure and control the temp at the output of the...

I'm in!

For what it's worth, I consulted with my brother-in-law who is a master electrician as I was investigating going electric. The EBCII comes with a drawing. He looked at it and said it should be fine as long as it is built as drawn. He recommended GFCI protection for the circuit and declared my...

I don't have ball valves installed on the HERMS ports - I am not sure from my picture exactly what you are seeing. Being the amatuer I am with the camera it could be background clutter. I have ball valves installed on my kettles for draining/filling, and on the output of the pumps for flow...

Technically, bonding itself isn't grounding, and isn't really related to high current. It is simply electrically connecting metal parts that are conductively separate from each other, usually for the purpose of ultimately grounding the bonded components. So, if you want a common ground for...

Not sure how helpful this will be, but here goes: This is a view of the installation. The outlet near the floor and the panel at eye level. Close-up of the outlet. 2 gang box. I drilled out the holes for 1/2 inch fittings on each side of the top of the box to support 3/4 inch conduit...

Not only do dryers not require gfci, they are designed to not be protected with gfci. Like refrigerators, freezers, and other major appliances with relatively large electric motors, they can easily trip gfci breakers without having a fault condition. If you want to make sure the outlet can be...

Hi Folks, I have been reading a lot of threads about electric brewing. It appears that many are in the same boat as I was - knowing GFCI exists, but not really sure how it works. There is a lot of great advice about what to do and NOT to do, and a lot of encouragement to be safe and do it...

I had the hole drilled by High Gravity. I just took the "default" position - I didn't tell them I wanted to make sure I could boil 5 gallon batches in it (didn't think about it). There is certainly room to have it installed lower, and in looking at others' rigs, I see many installed lower. If...

There is a lot of information on this forum. Search "PWM", "boil control", "TRIAC" and that should get you started. I don't think it has to be a problem that you have the same size boil kettle as your other vessels. I wanted a setup to do 10 gallon batches, and the Blichmann 20 gallon pot...

The HERMS system is basically High Gravity's small immersion chiller installed in the lid of the pot: If you can see through the clutter in the backgorund, you can see the underside of the lid in the photo. The coil is installed using compression fittings through two pre-drilled (drilled by...

It will take a little work, but I will put together the cost I have into it so far. The system is based on High Gravity's Build Your Electric Brewery here: Build Your Own Brewery - High Gravity in case you want to get an idea. I went with the 15 gal Bayou Classic HLT with the HERMS coil, the...

Will do later this evening after work. Thanks!

I apologize in advance for my amateur photography. Here are a few pics. I can get better or different pics if anyone would like to see them. This is my control panel. You can see the EBT II with the six foot gray power cord. I took a Husky tool cart (Home Depot) and made a hinged cover...

I did research for a few months and decided on electric. I bought this controller, 3 pots, the HERMS setup, etc. I am very pleased - it is everything I anticipated it would be. The 5500w element in the HLT heats the water faster and cheaper pe rminute than gas. I went with the 4500w element...