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Hmm the unions are an interesting idea. I've never really used them. Another option similar to that I suppose is that the cam lock fittings on bargain fittings are at a REALLY nice price, in fact for both the sides of the stainless camlocks they sell it's only like 2 bucks more than buying a...

Both the flaired and the compression fittings are very expensive. For example, a single compression or flair fitting can cost 20 bucks, but to get that same setup to work with screw fittings they are 4-7 bucks a piece, less than half for the same usage most of the time. Not sure why I'd...

Yea the T idea had occured to me as well, however if you use it to make the 90 degree turn then you'd have to pretty much drill a whole in the side to be able to drain it or it would have the same issue as the regular 90 turn.... unless they make fittings where they are a 3 way conector with one...

I've thought about compressed air, though I dont have a compressor that is oil-less, so I'd blow a little bit of compressor oil through the whole system unless I got a different one. What I'm afraid of is that leaving water in is a great place to things you dont want to grow, to grow in, and...

So I'm in the process of building my brewery, I have the kegs, courtesy of New Belgium (15 bucks a pop from their fortcollins brewery!). I'm using a brew troller setup and have everything except the hop and grain additions automated (yes sparge is automated). I'm using 2x LG 3-MD-HC pumps...

You can do what I did and put a breaker in the main box made by Square D and then when I got my GFCI off ebay used it was a Simens, so I got a small 15 buck Simens single breaker box and put the 50 amp GFCI in it and ran the output of the breaker in the main box to it and installed it in the...

The system was a first step in building a large all grain system that will need a decent amount of power. That and I'm impatient, I had the power available so why not? haha. Being able to boil 15 gallons in 20 minutes is nice :).

Well... I have 2x 5500w elements in my keggle and I EASILY boiled over a 5 gallon batch. I actually have to watch it like a hawk or it dumps foam all over the floor as I approach boil on most batches. It might be the amount of power you have, or maybe you have something is breaking up the...

Those valves have the BD3 wire setup if you look at the KLD web site. The way they work is they have 3 wires, but you only need to switch one for them to work. Given that you're using 2 wires with solenoid you'll most likely need to run a 3rd wire... I'll explain: There is a RED, GREEN...

Solenoids for water supply, everything else electric ball valves. They are right that you want to buy from the brewtroller store, it's hard to beat their price. We just did a group buy on 3way ball valves from there and for 19 valves plus shipping and fee's it was almost 1200 bucks. Then...

NO!!!! I just missed my chance for a free pump :(.

Well it depends on which ATMEGA chipe you are using exactly, but the current need of the SSR exceeds the max current sink or supply of the pins on the ATMEGA chips. You can run it that way but you'll decrease the life of the chip. Easiest way is to do what brewtroller does and get your self...

I fallowed the gidelines on this page for my chocolate orange stout, and it has turned out very very well: http://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/formulating-and-brewing-winning-chocolate-porter I will add that adding lactose also helps to make it a very smooth beer with a lingering after...

Note that your test button on the breaker may not work if the neutral is not connected but the breaker should still work. You can connect the neutral to ground if you want to make the test button work, as long as how you have it wired has no current going through the breaker to ground you...

To turn one element off turn breakers 1 and 2 or 3 and 4 off while the others are on. To run full power all 4 breakers on. To run in series turn breakers 1 and 4 off, leave 2 and 3 on and turn switch on. (WARNING: NEVER turn the switch on while breakers 1 and 4 are on, you'll short...

Sometimes the cheaper elements can get rust on their face place, but that can also occur on the expensive ones too, but many them in my experience have better protection against that. The best regarded brand is camco. All mine are camco. There is another thread on here that talks about where...

I've found the same elements, but much cheaper at ron's hardware: http://www.ronshomeandhardware.com/2963-5500W-240V-Ripp-Element-p/808790.htm above is ULD, below LD(4500w, they dont sell LD 5500 at ron's): http://www.ronshomeandhardware.com/2583-4500W-240V-Folding-Element-p/808451.htm

1 watt = 1 joule/second. 1 calorie = 1 gram of water changing temperature by 1deg C. 1 gram of water is 1 cubic centimeter. There are 3785.41178 cubic centimeters per gallon, and deg F = 9/5 * deg C + 32. 1 calorie is 4.184 joule Now, 60 deg F = 1.33 deg c and 170 deg F = 62.44 deg c, so 61.11...

Mal is right. The magnets are covered in chrome and it chips off eventually. The reason they are plated in this is to prevent small magnet particles from flowing out of them, once the chrome comes off they start leaking out of the magnet. Not sure how good/bad the magnet particles will be...

So I'm building a fully automated system using the brewtroller, I'll be writing some code shortly to do automatic fly sparge and it will be all setup. Anyways, I've been throwing around idea's on how to do auto fly sparge for a while, I thought about trying to use a motorized ball valve to...