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There are some styles, some lagers, that do benefit though?

This morning I was very surprised at how much co2 is actually produced during fermentation. Last night I replaced the blow off hose on the serving keg with a spund valve and a blow off hose. I guess the spund valve on the serving keg was pretty tight, as this morning the dials on the spunds...

BC, rightly or wrongly, I'm pressure fermenting all of them, whether or not its a style that benefits from it. It's probably my Scottish blood, but I like getting free co2. Having positive pressure keeps the gasket on my corny pressed up tight, even during cold crash.

Ah. I misunderstood.

Hmmm. No luck. I turn on the power and spin the magnet by hand. But nothing happened. Yesterday I was going to bring it to an appliance repair guy and pay him a hundred bucks to tell me that I have to buy a new hundred dollar pump. Instead I think I'll just buy a new hundred dollar...

Have you tried pulling the PRV? It may be a solution, I just have not tried it yet. I may work great, but I imagine that even with the headspace depressurized, the liquid is still pressurized and would immediately start to reach equilibrium with the headspace and with the serving keg down...

@Indian_villager is the capacitor that small black box tucked inside the back cover? And where to find one? Contact Kegland? Also thanks, this makes sense.

Becasuse eventuallly I will be doing a closed transfer from the fermenting keg to the serving keg. It has been tried with a pressurized fermenting keg, and a non pressurized serving keg. When you connect the two kegs, the sudden rush to same pressure, causes the yeast cake to be...

I think I have the answer. For me anyway. Put a spunding valve on both kegs. The fermenting keg is set at 12 psi. The serving keg has a valve set wide open and with a tube into a starsan jar For the first two days of vigorous carbonation, purge the serving keg. Then close the valve on...

Actually he gives the answer here. I can still enjoy pressure in my fermenter, and still have enough left over gas to purge the serving keg. But only if the spunding valve is between the two kegs. It appears that I can't get too greedy and pressurize both kegs. It is very interesting...

That's right. I was just reading @doug293cz 's post on purging with fermentation gas. He puts a jumping line between the kegs, not a spunding valveven keeping the fermenting . Having said that, even with the tank under pressure, the exit pipe is still hammering away for three to four days...

Oh, the kegs in the photo are different sizes. But normally all the kegs are the same size. So go on that assumption.

Like many of us I use the fermentation co2 from the fermenting keg to purge the serving keg. But where to place the spunding valve? Photo below shows how I currently do it. The spunding valve is in the middle, after the fermentation keg and before the serving keg. So the fermenting keg...

Hmm. The pump is getting power as it hums when I power on. The power in the windings is just not doing that thing of circling the magnet. Might just be a pump that failed. And has nothing to do with being clogged at all

Yes. I have turned it on with the cover and impeller off, looking just at the center magnet. No movement. If I spin the center magnet with my finger, it spins great. I have written to customer support at Kegland, and have also posted to the Kegland user forum. I guess I'll dig out my...

Well, no luck. tried it with water, to see if the problem was a lack of self priming. not that. I think the pump is just not getting power. when I turn on the pump, I hear a click in the power box beside it. But the pump does not spin. the impeller can be in the tightly bolted down as...

Yeah, first time I took apart a magnetic coupler pump. Now I know why that is different than a mechanical pump. Super cool that there is no mechanical contact and it's just magnetic fields. Now i know why I can throttle it back on the recirculation pump without harming the drive. after...

Yes, I can turn the motor/magnetic coupler by hand. There is no resistance. I have taken it out and put it back several times. It will turn freely. I can only assume that those damnable seeds have blocked the spin so much that there is some electrical damage

Oh, wait, it's not a self priming pump. tomorrow morning I'll install, it flip it over and add water. We'll see.

When I turn on the power I hear a click in the pump, so power is getting to it. But there is no motion. I opened the back and saw the wiring and all is good. Nothing is burned out.