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One of these days I'll upgrade to a conical. Currently using converted kegs and fermonsters. Would be SO nice to be able to catch trub and yeast though... one of these days.

Glad you mentioned microns, I was thinking about this all wrong. 100 mesh would have been way finer than I want. Thanks!

With my stir plate I have found that small bars tend to get thrown and large bars will stay in place. I got a set off amazon that had a bunch of different sizes to experiment with and in the future I will just buy larger bars in the 1"-1.5" range

Looking for suggestions for what mesh size to use for an inline filter. I dislike the amount of particulate in my kettle at the end of the boil and would like to get it out during brewing. I have a sight glass I'm not using as well as all other needed parts except the screen. I'm going to use a...

Nice. I'm with you on going big, although for me that was moving to a 20 gallon kettle and doing 12 gallon batches. If I ever have the space I will definitely go bigger though! You have a picture of your mash tun? I've drooled over those groens a few times, way out of my budget just now though.

I want one!

Thanks for the reply. I tried back sweetening my last one and wasn't thirlled. I may not be thrilled with stopping fermentation either, but I want to give it a go. I bought 2 separate additives to stop fermentation (blanking on what they are right now, but the two popular ones) If I want to stop...

My first few batches I let ferment all the way to zero as I do not like sweet wines or ciders. However, I think this may have contributed to some flavors I don't like. Looking for recommendations on FG levels for someone who is not into sweet beverages. Based on my beers I am thinking 1.010...

Mine would be my TIG welder, because it makes other pieces of brewing equipment. However, for brew specific equipment I would have to go with the pressurized transfer lid I made for my fermenter because it is so much easier than picking up the fermenter and putting it on a table.

I use a chest freezer as my fermenter with an STC-1000 and some heat wraps. I usually set it and forget it for a week or so. Recently the temp got down to freezing (chest freezer is outdoors) and the chest freezer stopped cooling. I waiting until a day in the 50's (have run in many times in 50...

Laser tachometer $10.50 shipped from ebay. I use mine for all kinds of things!

Just upgraded from storing beers under the house to a temp controlled chest freezer!

Really don't know how long it would take. Didn't time it this time as I was still messing with stuff. After top off water I was about 140 F, probably took 30-45 min to boil (totally guessing on that though.) Also, was not 2 second pulses. t was set to 2 and I was running at 75%, so 1.5 second...

I'll have to run it again and see if my t changes. I could be wrong about that. I *think* I set my t to 2 originally (prior to auto-tuning) and found it at 18 when I was checking settings after auto-tuning. Frankly PIDs are a mystery to me. And based on the number of questions asked about them...

Autotune set my "t" to 18. this meant that at times my element was on for 18 seconds straight. Of course this does not matter for water, but for wort it is not ok.

Brewed again today... I'm 90% sure my PID settings were the issue. However, I also had a 5500 ULWD element this time, so there is that 10% doubt. I discovered that after auto tuning my "t" was set to 18. So when boiling my element was on for 18 sec straight at times. I changed "t" to 2 (big old...

I would certainly consider it a glitch, however it is not restricted to my unit. Apparently it is one of those defective by design deals. There is a good thread about it on reddit, which references a post here about a related, but separate issue. Weirdest part was that after I figured it out and...

Reddit came through. Apparently when you set t to 2 you have to set P to 1 or it gives crazy high temp readings.

I am using an auberins syl-2352 and something just went screwy. Changed the "t" setting from 18 to 2. Temp probe all the sudden reads 700 something. Changed it back and temp probe read correctly again. Was curious what was up and changed it to 2 again. temp probe reads insanely high again...

Somewhere is the $140-150 range. Hard to say as they are released throughout the entire year. Also I have duplicates of a couple of them. I think they were around $16 each before taxes except the Anniversary which was $24 before taxes.