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  1. augiedoggy

    Blichmann Fermenator, upgrade or sell..

    You can easily cool with a more practical and easier to clean and maintain jacket like these too.. I use one on my stout 12.5 gallon conical http://www.gotta-brew.com/products/cool-zone-cooling-jacket.html works better to insulate as well. this conical is one example where American made is not...
  2. augiedoggy

    Efficiently cleaning a unitank

    Like I mentioned above a high capacity sprayball requires a much larger pump than 17gpm... Ive tried since I have both a 17gpm pump and a normal cip ball (I have three different types) It will not spray with very much cleaning force. You need a fullsized brewery pump for a full sized sprayball...
  3. augiedoggy

    Efficiently cleaning a unitank

    Removing the handle takes 30 seconds but boiling water and using it to sanitize all your carb stones between every use does take more time to be fair. Doing so does add the extra security but at the cost of time. its up to the end user to determine if the risk is real and great enough to warrant...
  4. augiedoggy

    Efficiently cleaning a unitank

    NO, It not absolutely necessary. you can sanitize them with normal cip and sanitation as many breweries do.. Ive never boiled any carb stones at home or at the brewery and never had an infection from it. if you clean and sanitize the right after use and leave it in sanitizer or leave your tank...
  5. augiedoggy

    Morebeer Malt Muncher 2 Mill

    the beveragefactory.coms store brand is the "kegco" mill but you can buy this exact mill as the maltmuncher from other vendors. some have keg king , some kegland or other distribtor branding marking on them now as the manufacturer offers free laser etching of branding on the side for everyone...
  6. augiedoggy

    Electric Panel Design

    Different folks, different strokes... $30-40 extra per controller + shipping adds up to about $120-150 more on a 3 vessel control panel build and all this can add up to vastly different costs in the end. I have the older fully loaded EZBOIL DSP310 and after using the mypins first, I found myself...
  7. augiedoggy

    Keg King Malt Muncher 3 Frustrations

    In a nutshell Morebeer should be the one supporting the customers on issues with this. As far as trying to pinpoint the actual problem here I will say this again only because Ive seen more than a couple times where people had the same issues as what was reported here, Check the position of the...
  8. augiedoggy

    Keg King Malt Muncher 3 Frustrations

    Thats where your mistaken, They are ALL THE SAME CHINESE MILL keg king just resold that same chinese mill along with everyone else! they all order them from the same supplier in china with custom etching on the side now. (I used to have the link to the actual supplier doing this but cant find...
  9. augiedoggy

    Keg King Malt Muncher 3 Frustrations

    There is more to this story. Its not just morebeer... companies like Williams brewing are still offering these mills as well as maltmunchiers yet you will no longer find them or intertap faucets on the kegking.au site. Where is the mention of the former Keg king that employees that allegedly...
  10. augiedoggy

    Keg King Malt Muncher 3 Frustrations

    This picture is how the tabs are supposed to be positioned. The maltmunchier 3 and kegco 3 roller mill are one in the same... Your mill is not technically counterfeit because they are really generic and all come from the same chinese supplier that makes the cereal killer mills. ( you can place...
  11. augiedoggy

    Keg King Malt Muncher 3 Frustrations

    The guides on the lower part of the hopper should prevent grain from getting in the ends of the roller unless you assembled the hopper backwards as a lot of people have, a year ago the photos on the beverage factory's website of the rebranded keg king 3 roller showed the hopper guides backwards...
  12. augiedoggy

    Breaker switch started flipping on my last brew

    Ive heard of breakers I dont have an answer but I know I seen a report of someone having a simiar issue on an all in one urn setup when the element area was full of grain.
  13. augiedoggy

    Breaker switch started flipping on my last brew

    What ever it was in my case, once I cleaned the element surface (which was no easy feat) the issue went away...It was not the main gfci breakers but rather one of the individual din breakers in my control panel. It was a brand new triclamp based 6000w element from brewmation and I was pretty...
  14. augiedoggy

    Why are brewing controllers so expensive?

    one contributing factor is also because thats what they can get away with charging until competition brings prices down. its the same setup as gfci breakers vs more commonly sold spa panels with them. or epiepens
  15. augiedoggy

    Breaker switch started flipping on my last brew

    I also found that if the element becomes coated and scorched it can actually start tripping the breaker until its cleaned... found this out when experimenting with step mashing with rye and a new rims element.. The element overheating somehow changed its resistance I guess. once I cleaned it it...
  16. augiedoggy

    Why are brewing controllers so expensive?

    rule of thumb is commonly to double actual costs of everything when selling a product unfortunately sometimes much more than that... for example according to discussions at the probrewer forum the average cost of a pint of non adjunct real beer in a nanobrewery is usually between .75cents and...
  17. augiedoggy

    Why are brewing controllers so expensive?

    Those white ssrs are the single worst commonly faked clone component Ive seen commonly used and I started out using them myself (with no failures but I got lucky) the second most commonly faked thing I've seen are the "rex" pids that ship from china with a made in japan label on the box..
  18. augiedoggy

    Why are brewing controllers so expensive?

    I agree but but its interesting to know most pids (and timers and such we use) actually run on 12-32v dc... They have little ac to dc power supplies built in. this is also why they usually can be powered by a wide ac voltage like 100-250v ac. As far as the $15 SSR... you can get a damn good one...
  19. augiedoggy

    Breaker switch started flipping on my last brew

    I was going to mention the heat as well... seen it myself a few times. the breaker is designed to trip if it reaches a certain temp.. I also had a 4500w ripple fail in such a way that it would cause the breaker to trip randomly when it got hot enough as well so dont rule out the element just yet...
  20. augiedoggy

    CIP with air compressor?

    Or you could maybe just buy a utility pump like one of these? I know the max temp varies by pump but the point is for under $100 you would have something that would say you a lot of time and effort as well as possibly money vs the one pass approach...
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