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Strictly speaking, it may not be to code . . . . . Can you establish a new ground/earth reference by driving a new grounding rod at a point local the brewing location?

Sorry, I did not establish the era I was referring to. There was time (like 10-15 years go) where theory of HSA was widely accepted as fact. Home brewing forums were rich with replies that warned of inadequate diligence against HSA.

The home brewers most common conception is that HSA is bad and produces off flavors. Or at least HSA is best to be avoided and certainly do nothing to induce HSA. The questions raised How easy is HSA to create? How bad are the off flavors? Is HSA something the rational or practical home brewers...

I know when I see videos of professional brewing in action it is not uncommon to see where the brewer is not particularly concerned about HSA. I visited a friend at a decent sized independent brewery. As the hot wort was being transferred from one vessel to type next, wort was getting splashed...

I had a similar requirement. Because I am a cheap SOB, I went with 4 silicone trivets from Walmart. I lay them down to make a square. The silicone is skid resistant, so everything stays in place. If you want something more elegant: cut some appropriate material to size and shape. Glue the...

If you are looking to save money, you can do the heavy lifting by pulling cables into place, mount hardware as required, etc. Hire an electrician to make the final connections verify everything is up to code.

If it were my panel, this is what I would do. Disconnect the wires from terminals 1 thru 4. This is not supposed to make a difference, but who knows. All you are looking at is the coil circuit. Pull the wires off and put electrical tape and cover the exposed copper Yes, from one of the two...

Then the relay is bad/defective/mislabeled or the vendor got you the wring part of you ordered the wring part. Can you post a close up of the relay itself? The part with the specs printed on the relay?

Let me frank. The fact there you tell me you have a 32 amp 110v coil tells me you are in trouble. There is no way the coil of that contactor is 32 amps. That coil is probably around 0.100 amps. The contacts are what are 32 amps. The coil and the contacts of a contactor/relay are electrically...

Brewhardware has a solution for you. At s reasonable price. https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/biabbottom155.htm He has several sizes. The stand offs are stainless steel metric bolts, so you can change it per your particular requirements. Before I saw this, I was going to make an IM stand...

Double check the contactor coil rating. Make sure it is rated for the correct voltage that it is XXX Volts AC. (not XXX volts DC) I do not see the coil of the contactor on your schematics. You might have it wired such that the coil shuts itself off and then back on kind of a thing. Try dis...

Yes. While I often criticize home brewers fit be excessively distracted about efficiency. But if you can get a bump up in percentage points by using such a simple modification in process, why not?

Check out the anvil foundry site. Download the owners manual. Look for the section about sparge, no sparge, grain weights, and volumes. While it is not perfect and may not answer every question , it is a good place to start and provide a good introduction to AIO systems.

The best place to measure the affect of your heating element has on your wort is as close to the element as you can. This is true regardless if what you do with the wort. Brewers are most concerned with accurate temperature during the mash. The temp reaches, sustains and does not exceed one...

At the bottom if this page is a chart that will give you real world numbers for temp rises intervals. I have a 5500 watt element and brew.commander. To heat water, I use 100% power. Once I have wort, I crank it down 10-20%. I had some scorched wort on the element when I ran it 100%. Granted I...

For electric BIAB, you might be better off looking at propane/gas systems. Lots of brewers go in that direction. Learn the tricks, trchniques and process. Then substitute heat source, electric for gas. Granted the PID, temp probe, pump, maintain mash temp stuff is attractive and fun. But you do...

I have to say, that schematic confuses me. You have switches that are serial, one switch feeds the next switch. You start off with two switches that feed main switch that turns on the 25 amp contactor. I count 4 things that have to be closed before you can do anything. If I am reading the...

I would say you have a very good chance that it will work. However . . . . . I would double check with Blichmann tech support. Do your research and let them know the type of 240 VAC the country you are going to. 240 VAC. E.g. 240 V Hot, Neutral & Ground. Ask for f it makes a difference which...

It is easy to get tricked by using a digital multimeter. Digital multimeter have a high input impedance. You can measure a high voltage but it at next to nothing current and is a voltage reading that could be a red hearing. If you are measuring a voltage source that has passed through a solid...

Solder cup is where you put the wire onto the connector. It is called a solder cup because it is shaped like cup that has been cut in half. Put the stripped part of the conductor into the solder cup, add heat to the cup and the wire, introduce solder and fill up the cup. Unlike most solder...