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He espouses the same philosophy I've always used with my plate chiller - heat kills all. I hot water flush my plate chiller at the end of each brew day and do a PBW cycle every few brew days. My main point of sterilization is recirculating the boiling wort through the chiller as I approach the...

A hair dryer on low might work. A mattress inflator would be another option. It's a balancing act to get enough air for a nice clean burn, but not too much that it blows out the flame.

If you have the environment to leave the VM running, save yourself some work and leave RPints running there. Just install Chromium on the Pi and pull up the page.

Did you read my thread and watch the video in there? The air compressor method was just a proof of concept test. A simple blower fan will increase BTU output significantly.

That's a common problem with NG. You'll need to cut the gas flow to get a blue flame. You're basically running too rich. For some discussion on it and how I solved it, check out this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=538762

Yeah, I like the all SS builds. But then again, I guess I'm biased. ;) https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=572641

bsent - I appreciate your contributions to the discussion here, but you're rehashing what I already know. My point of opening up the orifice (over standard 1/8") is that it will require the forced air at that point to operate properly. Yes, you can use a needle valve to control it for low...

Bobby is NOT with Brewers Hardware. I think this is the filter you're referring to: https://www.brewershardware.com/1_5-Tri-Clover-Compatible-Strainer-with-3-OD-Body.html

I have a 3.33A DIN rail mount supply. It is 1" SS pipe. Yes, the blower is duct taped to the inlet. Most NG orifice's are 1/8". That's what I'm running now. I may open it up a bit more to see how it works. Brewers Hardware is real close to me, so if I screw up the valve, I can get another...

Yes, I use the same blower you linked. I've since added a second one for my HLT tank. They work pretty good. I tried using a variable speed controller, but the fan didn't respond well with it. I use a strip of duct tape about 3/16" wide that is across the duct tube to lessen the air flow...

I'll toss in Brewers Hardware as a company that delivers. They have a full time welder that does all modifications and whips up all kinds of custom stuff for customers. I've been very pleased with every thing they've done. I just recently had them make me a custom tippy dump that mounts to...

I had the same goals in building my system. I'm on Gen2 of my build. No hose swaps and I also incorporated fresh water fill & clean on the new version. There's a liquid flow diagram in the (long) first post of the thread. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=572641 Older version...

Yeah, 50 is a bit low for US05, but 65 will be fine. The mass of the wort will take a while to warm up to the ambient temp. Keep rousing it and give it about 48 hours. It can take it a while to get activity back.

I went down this road several years ago. I've built many microcontroller boards over the years for various purposes, but when it came time to automate my brewing, I decided to buy instead of build. My decision came down to wanting to spend more time brewing and less time debugging and...

I have ball valves under the stand where the gas solenoids are to set my maximum gas flow rate. Additionally, the burners have an adjuster on them to trim the gas flow if needed. I see no reason to use sanitary elbows and additional TC clamps to make all connections. On the hot side, your...

Sounds to me like those that are not seeing changes reflected in the Rpints display are editing the content remotely. This is par for the course - you either need to go refresh the Chromium browser or put in a periodic refresh like mentioned above. If you edit on the Pi, yes, you'll see those...

Thanks. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to brew in a few months and its probably going to be another before I can. :( I'm hoping with all that cool landscaping you've been doing that you're going to have a full on brew shed in that nice back yard.

None of the models being used here have internal coils around the shelves. These are frost free models where the coils are in the walls. Sounds like you had a condensation problem that caused your rusting.

You can edit that info in the index.php file.

You can see in the first pic of this thread that I mounted mine under the wood/wire shelf. This way it is tucked into the 2x2 frame and not in the way of anything else.