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I've got a few pots lying around from when I did smaller batch sizes I never seem to use anymore. Hoping to find a good home for them. I have a 5 gallon generic pot that I'll let go for $20 OBO. The other pot is an older style Blichman (pre-boilermaker) 10 gallon with false bottom. Makes a...

Stout Tanks RIMS tube for sale (product link: https://conical-fermenter.com/RIMS-Module.html). I'm switching to a new system and won't be needing this anymore. It comes with a 120v element and auber RTD temp probe. $75+shipping for anyone who wants it. Save on shipping and pick it up if...

I'd almost guarantee you any 'cloud connected' power strip is using an http based API (i.e. REST) just because that's the popular thing to do these days. It's almost certainly not intended for your direct use and probably would require you impersonating the cloud server. Depending on your use...

This is essentially what I got by taking copper tubing and wrapping it around my conical then insulating the outside. I use an A/C unit glycol chiller and aquarium pump, so I probably get a few more BTUs than a cooler with ice, but I can lager just fine even during the summer. The insulation is...

Thanks everyone! I think I am overthinking the drain. I do brew now in a garage, so hosing stuff down to clean it up is part of what I'm used to, but its not the only way to do things of course. I do move hoses on my rig, and that does lead to some sticky drips of wort that I hose down. I'll...

Practically, I know roll vinyl is tough to beat. Since my room is small enough I could get a seamless sheet to cover the floor. Then, with reasonable waterproofing around the edges, you know you've got a fully waterproof floor. I'm just having a hard time getting over my personal hangups on...

I thought about one of those foam shower pans that give you the slop, but thats far more slop than you really need for a floor drain and they're ~1 3/4" tall on the sides.

mj1angler, exactly. It's in a sub-division, not a full custom builder. There's stuff they will and won't do. I cannot do any work my self or bring in my own sub before I close -- because until close I don't own the house. Yes, I did get them to put in a 'bathroom fan'. I'm working with the...

I'm building a new house, and the space that works in the floorpan for the brewery is upstairs (right off the home theater :) ). I had tried to get the builder to put in a floor drain and tile, but they're not willing to do something that custom. I was however able to get them to rough in for...

I've been hacking on some firmware for quite a while now that can support multiple fermenters on a glycol system with a BrewPi. I know this is a feature coming eventually to the stock firmware. Until then though, this hack is finally fully configurable without recompiling the code. It's...

I've been fermenting 1/2 of a 10gal batch in a corny and the other half in my 7gal conical for about 2 years now -- ever since I moved up to 10gal batch size. I can't say i've noticed any significant flavor differences. Looking at the two, since the keg is tall and narrow, the yeast cake...

I wrapped a blichman 7gal on the outside using copper coil a few years back. Works great. You just have to unscrew the legs and flip them around to give you clearance Pics of it are in this build thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=507618

Oh, I also hooked the BrewPi up to Nagios for some simple monitoring. I was already using Nagios for monitoring of my servers and services in my house, so this was a simple addition. Nagios sends me a text if the BrewPi becomes unresponsive for any reason. This has been a slight issue given...

Completed control box for the BrewPi SSR's. I'm using 24vac irrigation valves (hence the 2v transformer) and the 40watt heat mats from cool zone. Exterior view of the box mounted and closed up. The RJ12 jacks from the BrewPi DS2413 module are exposed though holes in the side of the box...

Forgot to cross-post this earlier, but I got my firmware working... https://community.brewpi.com/t/brewpi-firmware-fork-for-wifi-glycol-multi-chamber/1056/10 Now that I have something that works for me, I'm working with the brewpi team to get similar features into the official build. There...

I have now begun serious development work on new BrewPI Photon firmware. I'm about 80% to a working release that'll give me the features that I need to run my system. I had hoped to just add what I needed on to Elco's work, but in the end it is becoming mostly a rewrite. - Communications over...

Finally got a shipment on the way from Elco with a brewpi and all the assorted parts! Thankfully I got my order in before he goes on vacation. It should be here by the weekend so I can playing with it. Before I start doing any code changes, I'll go ahead and hook it all up as per the standard...

I use a coil on the outside (copper in my case not that it matters) hooked upto my a/c turned glycol unit. Works great and simple to retrofit. You can see build pics of it on the diy fermenter forum

Its been many years since I used those strips to measure temperature, but for me at least I did see a difference of a few degrees between what the strip read and what a SS thermowell down the stopper of the carboy read. I have always attributed it to the fact that the strips sit on the outside...

The best thing I ever did for my beer was to ferment it at 68F internal temp. The temp on the side of the carboy is lower than the temp in center mass. That generally meant setting the ambient in my fermentation chamber to 66F during the first few days. 2-5F gradient between those two...