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What size element do you have? is this 240v or 120v? do you have an ammeter installed? with 12awg you are limited to a TOTAL of 20 amps are you splitting us a single 3 conductor+ ground 12awg romex line to run multiple 120v circuits here? are they sharing the same neutral wire? (if so thats your...

passedpawn used to regularly dryfire his ripple element to clean it not sure if he still does but some handle it well and some not so much.. being ULWD does increase the elements tendency to survive this.

ditto 10/3 romex (its often red with 3 insulated wires plus one bare copper wire). I use about 70ft of it for my system with 2 elements /pumps ect. keep in mind the max any 5500w element will draw is 23amps and they are usually slightly less powerful than their max rating. if your using the...

That pump appears to be a cast iron pump so you will have to disassemble it between ever use and dry it or it will rust. Personally I would not use that type of pump for food grade use regardless of temperature For cip it will probably work well.

At home I'm still using the tan pumps after about 7 years now.. I did go from 12v versions to the more powerful 24v ones in 2014 but been using the same ones since besides the one I burned up when trying to use two in tandem. I admit its been a while since ive brewed at home though. I suspect...

Started at 7am yesterday morning (but premeasured and ground grain the day before) finished CIP on boil kettle at 2pm after brewing...so 7 hrs for brew till sitting chilled in the conical with cleanup... but that was 102 gallons of finished wort into the fermenter- this was at the brewpub. At...

So My take on the rims is this... I use the longest, lowest watt density heating elements I can and use a relatively lower flow rate than most. At home this means I recirculate throught a 40" long rims with a 36" long cartridge heater thats 1800w... I recirculate with a 24v dc pump at 1.5-2 gpm...

In my experience, as long as all the connections are soldered (other than the actual plug connection point) Ive had precision that was well within my expectations for brewing. I recommend NOT using the super cheap stainless braided probe wires personally as ifve learned the hard way they are...

Mechanical relays wont hold up very long when clicking on and off multiple times per minute.. The contacts heat up this way and eventually fail by either fusing closed or burning/damaging the contact surface causing the current not to pass reliably. This weakness is literally one of the reasons...

Im sure this diamiod plated mill is great and all but honestly if a properly funtioning mill with longevity is what you want, You should be happier with anything but a barley crusher. Im still using a $150 3 roll mill at the brewpub for 2 years now this month and thousands of lbs of grain...

Its working for me also.

Understood, since its the ground the only danger you have is the higher likelyhood of it getting knocked or pulled loose. Id just me mindful of it and you'll be fine.

The gound is on the plate so you can screw the wire to the inside of the plate before final assembly. I believe its in the best spot possible as the wires should all be inside the enclosure otherwise the purpose is sort of defeated.

This is also why I always use 2 pole contactors in conjunction with ssrs to kill all the power going to the elements when they are turned off.

Let Me put it this way... I cleaned mine by actuating the ball valves back and forth while pumping hot pbw through and I didnt take mine apart for about 3 years... when I finally did I realized how disgusting it still got inside behind the ball.

By tri clamps you mean sanitary butterfy valves right? because there is a difference.. Ive used plenty of triclamp ended ball valves which are just as non sanitary as any other ball valve. There are exceptions to the rule but personally I think splurging for sanitary triclamps and then still...

Ive used many of these and never had an issue. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Aluminum-Heat-Sink-for-Solid-State-Relay-SSR-Small-Type-Heat-Dissipation-10A-40A/112200581898?hash=item1a1fad030a:g:vP4AAOSwAHBaQyZZ Realistically a lot of the professionally designed machinery I work on does not use a...

Just curious where would you move the ground screw to?

I use triclamps at the brewery and also at home for the sanitary conical fittings only. I use camlocks everywhere else at home.

Some things never change. You know when I made my last post with my recommendation based on what I use I figured you would chime in again with your incorrect assumptions that I have some affiliation with Brucontrol. Why is it ok for you to make recommendations based on what you have experience...