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I'm planning on doing a RIMS system in the long run anyway, so I'm not super-concerned if it leaks a little heat. I did notice Igloo makes a 70 quart "MaxCold" cooler in the same form factor. It looks to have beefier insulation and would allow high-gravity 10 gallon batches. And the wheels make...

Damn, eagle eye - you're right. Rock on! Definitely buying it, tho it may be a while until it's converted into a HLT. I still have to finish wiring my eKeggle, and other than gutting an old mini-fridge I've made zero progress on a fermentation chamber. (Basement != repeatability.) I'll...

That is almost exactly it. I don't remember seeing a depression in the bottom that would make a good bulkhead location. Still... Bookmarked!

Hmm. My "super-clever" idea of taking a five-way copper slip fitting and brazing it to a stainless steel washer and dropping it thru a hole in the middle of the bottom seems to be hitting a snag; I don't think anybody makes a 5 way copper slip fitting. Too bad, because that would have been about...

I found this Igloo brand cooler at a local grocery chain. 48 quart, square, with no built in drain. $32. I need a cooler for our first cookout on Friday at our new house anyway, so... could I convert this into a HLT or MLT for a future all-grain system? Bobby_M's thread on MLT size...

I work at a supercomputer center, and that's what we do too. Unix commandline capabilities are very powerful.

I had been planning on doing an Arduino-based setup to run a lot of this stuff, but... this is so ridiculously easy and elegant, it's almost stupid not to do it this way. If you start with some basic bash scripts, you could easily - like in a few minutes - completely modify a brewing process. I...

Most important piece of advice I can give you: don't allow your impatience to get you ahead of your knowledge. This stuff is dangerous, and can easily kill you. I'm a DIY-minded guy with an electrical engineering degree, but when it comes to 220V/240V service... I know when to admit I'm beyond...

organikbrewer, since I've not yet done an all-grain batch, this might be a profoundly ignorant question, but... how do you deal with the trombone when sparging? Do you bypass it at the end of the sparge to drain the MLT? Leave it in place and continue to add water to the MLT until you get your...

That was a nice goal. Columbus (my team) scored one earlier this year on a 17 pass possession.

Nice! I'm also an EE by training (tho I've spent my entire career in software), and this is very similar to the setup I wish to build. Tho I hadn't considered LabView - mostly because I don't have access to it!

I think this is what pfooti is talking about. It's pretty offputting. That said, I think you've contributed GREAT information here, and I'm planning on adding a trombone to my own setup (bookmarked the thread) because I understand how it works and personally I'm interested in maximizing my...

This is a total WAG (as I'm hardly a thermodynamics expert and barely remember the classes I struggled thru on this topic), but my guess is that the compressor is better/stronger in the bigger fridge, and thus it can operate in colder environments. At some point, it'll be too cold for your big...

Possible, but I would advise, based on your questions, that you take this very very slowly. Don't build anything until you have a complete understanding of what's going on. Household 220V is extremely dangerous. Read read read, ask questions, understand exactly how everything works, before...

You can buy a plug and some wire (flexible) of the appropriate gauge at a hardware store. Don't under-size the wire!

Well, you need to be aware of that limitation (you'll just trip the breaker, but still - not something you want to do on purpose). Also, you might have the BK and HLT fired at the same time if you are fly sparging and start bringing your wort to a boil before the sparge is complete. (I don't...

Also, if you poke around you'll see that most people have problems with a 2000W element being just powerful enough to boil. That's more power than the standard outlet can provide. Which is why you need a high amperage source. If you get a 4.5kW element for your BK and HLT, and if you EVER...

Volts, amps, and watts are all related, but not interchangeable. How much power you need depends on the element you want to use to heat your water (and how quickly you want it to work drives that). If you aren't doing all-grain, a typical dryer outlet will provide enough power to do what you...

As I mentioned earlier, this is an elegant simple locking mechanism, but one alternative is to record the time and volume of all pulls. Not as simple, but has the added benefit of notifying you when the keg is low. http://keg.maager.com/ Combine with a camera recording to a DVR, you could...

Effective, even if you lose a little of the bar ambiance. :)