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Finished bondo job over the original lock mechanism hole and sanding. Pretty happy with how its looking so far, this part I was most worried about as it was going off the map a little. Test fit all of the panel components again before priming.

Realized I really only have two components to mount on the backplane, the two contactors. I had thought about using some terminal strips for wiring but with such a small ebiab build it was not really required after working out the physical wiring layout. Drilled and mounted the contactors.

Building a 240V ebiab panel as well, went with the 12'' x 10'' x 8" I am glad to have gone with the 8" as there is still only a little clearance between the PID and the contactors. Lots of space to work in there but still way smaller than it was in my mind before it arrived. You can probably...

Maybe that yeast really took off and its already got it down to 1.013 ? :P Anyways, interesting to see how much flavour or body it has in the end.

Thanks! I knew I would miss something converting over to the layout. Will fix and update.

I just googled but I recall it here as in the photo next to the yeast type.

Here is a shot of the latch I will be using on the side to replace the original ugly front panel mechanism. This should look much nicer once the panel is all painted up and the parts are installed.

Drilled out and cut the front panel for the switches, indicators and PID. Went fairly well, but the jigsaw got away on my on one side of the PID as you can see. I can probably fix that in post-production.. or it will buff out.. or some such thing. :) Front panel is sanded down for prime...

I wanted to get a better idea of where every wire would connect to be sure there was clearance for the number of connections at each device. I put together this physical layout diagram of the internal components, the opened door (opens to the right) and the wiring layout. I will likely run the...

I got my spa panel with 30A GFCI breaker all wired up and ready to go. I will have this sitting on my dryer with the long 10/4 cord running to my brewing area and control panel.

Beautiful setup you have there! I am happy to know who I can now blame when this happens to me some day, thank you.

I believe I am satisfied with my panel layout and have measured and marked it up on the actual panel to be drilled and cut. I hope to get that done in the next couple of days. I will also be building up the spa panel and gfci portion as well. I have some crazy ideas about not using the panel...

I put the cable that runs from the control panel to the heater together, I am using the TC integrated element from @Bobby_M

I started a panel mockup drawing and came up with this. Then I cut it out into a piece of cardboard as a realistic mockup to check fittings and spacing.

Then I ordered parts, and things started to arrive. And more things....

I wanted to fully understand the schematic before ordering parts and starting to wire it up, after looking over the great schematics from @doug293cz I decided to redraw the one that fit the closest in an effort to better understand it as well as have a modifiable version in case I wanted...

Finally it is happening. I had started thinking about electric some time ago and first started a thread about trying to build it using a bottom drain keggle. The more I got into the design I realized I should just drill my beautiful 15gallon ss brewtech pot and forget the keggle...

Thanks @Bobby_M !!!

LHBS swaps 5 lb = $25 CDN 10 lb = $29 CDN

Excellent work. Great to watch it come together.