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I have a couple of these fermenters that I purchased back in Q1 of 2018. I do not have the same problems with the controller mount that you are experiencing. There should be two magnets, one on the back side of the detachable controller (visable), and one of the backside of the mounting base...

That sounds like a pretty weird setup. It seems like the max4 is not really suited for the grainfather conicals because there is no thermowell to stick a probe. The wiring on the grainfather is fairly simple. The cable that plugs into the back of the fermenter has three wires: +12 VDC, GND, and...

How are you connecting the icemaster's pump controllers to your grainfather conical? I'm assuming you have the controller on the grainfather and not just the simple/basic lcd temp display that they ship with it. I had overshoot problems with my grainfather conicals when I first used them with a...

This post should help you out: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/keg-lid-carbonation-stone.674960/post-8778537 I have changed my method a little since writing it. I no longer monitor the head pressure for the plateaus in step #5. I now simply increase the pressure on the regulator about...

Are you using the floating dip tube with your all rounder? If not, how are you racking the beer off the trub+yeast? I think your transferring problem is a result of your liquid connection becoming clogged. This is happening because you are allowing to pressure in the fermenter to drop during the...

Its more than likely the lid seal on the fermenter. I have a couple grainfather conical fermenters and I too have once experienced what you are experiencing. When you install the lid on the fermenter make sure it is centered. I do this by placing the lid on top of the fermenter body and moving...

I would say your situation is still good, just not ideal. Its not like you introduced large amounts of oxygen to the fermenter or something. Given your current situation with the milled grains, I would go ahead and transfer the beer to a keg and finish carbonating in the keg to free up the...

This post should be of use to you next time you carbonate using the carb stone: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/carbonation-help.680106/post-8885395 As for your current situation, It is hard to determine what level of aromatics you have knocked out of solution using the carbstone in the...

I don't think a valved QD is going to help you with much outside of just making the connections a bit quicker. Not much CO2 is required to purge tubing so you wont be saving much by adding a QD. IMO you are just adding an additional point of failure to your system without much benefit. Another...

EPDM is definitely the way to go. The silicone TC gaskets that came with my unitank where immediately discarded. Its a shame SSBT even ships the unitank with them. One thing I definitely recommend is to get 1" and 1.5" gaskets based on the port size. Many of the TC connections on SSBT unitank...

That seems like more than enough time. I'm not sure why you would have excess hop material during the transfer. Did your head pressure in the unitank remain at the carbonation level or higher during the transfer? The only thing I can think of is if your head pressure dropped enough, it could...

1) Sanitized your transfer hose and liquid disconnect. Assemble and secure to the unitanks racking port. Use a plastic dowel or some tool to depress the liquid disconnect poppet. While the poppet is open, open the butterfly valve for the racking arm on the unitank. Allow beer to push through the...

Keep in mind the LCD's on my unit are not thermostats. They are cycle timers that control the duty cycle of each glycol pump. Thermostatic control is provided by the controllers that came with each FV. After looking at some images of the wiring setup on the icemaster max4 (from the above...

Here are those pics I promised. The four toggle switches are three position. The positions are normal, off, and program. The off position cuts power to the pump even if the FV is calling for cooling. The status LED is also turned off to reflect this state. The normal position will run the pump...

That sounds like a bad design. It would mean the unit defaults to running the pumps while waiting for some input/signal to come online during power up. If the component sending this signal fails it would mean the pumps would run indefinitely as long as the unit has power. Be sure to keep tubing...

Does the stc-1000 controller display "EE" on the lcd? Does the compressor and fan run at all? It sounds like you might have a bad connection for the controllers temperature probe. Read the error description part of the stc-1000 manual if you have it. If not it should be readily available online.

If you ever run into this problem again, try pumping the dump valve lever a couple time. I have to do this sometimes with highly flocculant yeast, such as WLP007. That stuff comes out of the dump valve like my fermenter is pooping. Make sure you have a catch vessel ready for when the yeast is...

The rotary vane vacuum pump I use has a ball style shutoff valve on its intake. This valve is opened right before the pump is turned on and closed right before the pump is turned off. The pressure on the line that feeds into the pump is never under vacuum while the shutoff valve is open and the...

Low oxygen brewing has a great article discussing the calculations and effectiveness of purging a volume of air (a keg in this case) of all oxygen. The theoretical amount of oxygen (measured in ppm) remaining in the dry hop spool should be the same figures that exist in the table of purge...

I outlined the equipment and my step by step procedure in post #22 from the thread I listed on my prior post. I have never had a hop eruption using this method. Even when dumping 12 oz of hops into beer that has been sitting at 15 psi head pressure from spunding. The trick is to match the head...