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I have a situation where I use "soft off". I have four controllers in a single box, three of them each control a single conical fermentor. It's a glycol cooled system, so for cooling they simply turn on/off the flow of glycol. For heat they will control some heat tape. The forth one controls the...

During the summer, after I get the initial temperature down, I prechill the water to get it down that last bit. I use an old immersion chiller that I place in a bucket of ice to bring the water temp down. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Yes, insulation is next on my list ... From the tests I can see this will be important from a run time perspective ... It's about worse case for me right now, it can keep all three at 68 but runs almost continually ... But it's 80+ in my garage right now. I'll prob add insulation and run the...

Everything hooked up, doing a trial run today ... Just using all water for the test and limiting it to 50 degrees in the cooler. So far, so good. I'll add glycol next and test the system down to mid 30s. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Here are a few random pictures I have. Let me know if you want to see something else. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Bru-gear fermentors do look good. I too just want to get this up and running right now ... the fact I'm already looking a upgrading to SS probably doesn't say much for plastic but it will do for now and was by far cheaper to start. If I can reuse the coils in the conical then everything else I...

Yes, it could be ... I've got silicon orings for it too. Again, my hope is that I can ultimately seal the lids with silicone and only have to use the labyrinth breather. Very long term I'd like to switch to SS conicals. Later when I'm home I'll take some close up pictures and post them. Sent...

Still working on making it completely air tight but I think I'm good enough right now for a bubbler. What I did first was unscrew and apply silicon around the lid insert. Then I purchased some large silicon orings that I'm using when I screw on the lid. Right now it's air tight enough that the...

What I did to help prevent any glycol leakage directly into the conical was use Bore Through compression fittings on the lid so that the glycol connections to stainless tubing are on outside the conical. Just made me feel better that there are no connections inside the conical to worry about.

There was a guy who forked off BrewPi a while ago, added some profile interface and created a Bluetooth->serial interface that could be used to program the arduino brew-pi. I'll see if I can find the link to it. EDIT: Here are the two links I found on it (BrewDroid)...

Thanks for the cache suggestion ... I was able to get what I needed - really just looking for parts links. I'm rather far into the build, and just wanted to look at the links for the insulation. I may look into upgrading to stainless conicals in the future too, but not too soon if the plastic...

I just started my glycol chilled plastic conical fermenter build, using the details from http://plasticconical.com/glycol-chiller ... today I just noticed that plasticconical.com domain name has expired, which is a bummer. I'm sure I can find the info to continue within this thread, but...

I believe it pulls a max of 23amps ... I I have a 25amp breaker on the line supplying the load to the element. Biggest issue so far is finding a 240v 25+amp a/b toggle switch Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I think SPDT is the same thing too.

I like the idea of a A/B switch. Right now I have a contactor between the ssr and the element with a led button to turn on/off the element already. So between the ssr and the contactor I could put this switch. Looking on auber (where I'm looking to buy the replacement ssr) It seems their...

After having the SSR go bad half way through my boil, I'm thinking I want to add a manual override in case this happens again. Are there any existing diagrams that shows how to manually override the element by bypassing the SSR? Doing some searches, I've found some that allow you to manually...

It works good. Takes a bit to get it to temp but it doesn't have a problem getting to 240-260 which is about the max temp for me anyhow. I might look at adding the mailbox modification because I probably only get smoke about half what I could if my pellets where not sitting right above the...

I need to add a burp valve as well ... Did you add those at the input or output side of the pump? Looks like the input I'd guess. Let me know how they work. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Cause I still get up too damn early in the morning ... Nothing gets going around here till after 9am ... Nightlife doesn't start till 11pm, so that might explain why :) I'm planning my next brew for when I get home, I've got Thursday off so ... ;) Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

You have your pump on an SSR or a mechanical relay? A SSR requires AC side current to function and isn't really ever 'off' so it's always leaking some voltage which is fine for elements but not sure about pumps. I just put my pumps on a 120v switch for on/off Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew