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In all fairness this system isn't designed to make the best beer in the world... The system was designed to figure out what variables change the characteristics of beer. Nevertheless I appreciate your input.

Awesome thank you

Just make sure you can control the temp. It makes a huge difference!

Can you share a link or picture with your dual element thermocouple? Is this also k type?

In the complete system there are three RTD's, each RTD is a single element resistive temperature detector. Due to the nature of the RTD signal register in the PLC if there is a problem it is easily detectable. The register is a signed 16-bit integer. Fahrenheit readings between 32 and 212...

The heat source is a single 8.5kw ULD 240vac 304ss heating element.

Yes. Will give you a little over head for future power requirements and the heating effect on the wire will be a lot less. 22.917 amps would be 5500 watts at 240 volts. A number 10 wire is rated for 30 amps. A number 8 wire is rated for 40 amps. A number 6 wire is rated for 55 amps...

A few conicals with a 20°f glycol setup has drastically changed my beer for the better! Also pressurized transfers to kegs are amazing!

RTD probe Cheap and effective

Thank you for your input and yes what are profile adjustments and something I'm going to have to figure out in the future. A handful of people mentioned this and it is on the list to be implemented. Negative thermal coefficient thermistors and positive thermal coefficient thermistors don't have...

No currently it's just text. I need to make it work first before figuring out better ways to display alarms. But yes everything has feedback including the valves.

I had a similar problem except I had to run a hundred feet. I went down to the local Home Depot And picked up some number 8 Romex. I just ran it in my attic and didn't even bother stapling it down. Number 10 is good for 30 amps but I wouldn't run number 10 at that rating for very long. If...

So by hooking up your current Transformer the way you have it will not read 240 volt loads. And will only partially read 120 volt loads if you're 120 power is coming from one leg. If you pull 120 from L1 and L2 it will cancel each other out. The best way is to only Pull 120 from one leg and...

Very good information and questions here. Thanks you for taking the time to write it. So to be honest at this point in time there's no way for me to answer your questions. This is still in the prototyping stage in figuring out how things are all supposed to be hooked up. There's also a ton of...

The best thing I found is to dry hop however you see fit, it really doesn't matter. I use half barrel conical fermenters and just drop hops in the top. I do this at a cold temperature. And then cold crash it below 40 for at least 2 weeks and that should cause any particulate to drop out. If...

I do heating, air conditioning and Refrigeration for my job. A lot of the recipe input stuff that is all to come in the future.

Unitanks are definitely the cockford-ollie for fermentation vessels. I would love to have those instead of my conical fermenters.

The first Brew will happen late April early may this year. I'll be posting a live YouTube broadcast when the time comes.

For normal people hit that may be true. But like my friends always told me I'm quite special. The system isn't really designed to solve problems. The system was designed to give me answers for questions that I have. As a side effect my problems go away. From my point of view it was a win-win...

So most of the problems with my previous beers was the person brewing the beer. And traditionally I really like to drink beer while brewing beer. A side effect of this is a lousy track of time and temperature. I brew beer for fun, if I was doing this on a professional scale of course I could...