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I am running the 6/3 from my outside box into my basement (where my rig is) along with all the other house wires. It will go through conduit thru the outside wall; actually thru the bottom sill. Are you saying that I need to use metallic sheathing since it powers the rig? What is the reason...

Thanks. I'll see what I can find. At $2.10/ft, the one at HD above is the cheapest I have found so far and the ground looks like it's #6.

Sorry. Couldn't make the dropbox link work. This is a run from the double 50 amp breaker in the outside box through the wall (sill) to the rig. Here's the wire: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Southwire-By-the-Foot-6-3-Stranded-Romex-SIMpull-CU-NM-B-W-G-Wire-63950099/204632777

Just being cautious here. Ready to buy 25' (will need 20 - 25') of 6-3 wire. I'm assuming no reason for a metallic sheathing, so NM-B will be fine and the #6 will be fine for the max of 25'.

I'm in the process of choosing an enclosure for my new BC system. Will either do a 20x20x8, 24x20x8, or a 24x24x8. I've got plenty of room in my brewery and I'm thinking one larger that the typical 16x16x8 would have room for growth and be easier to work in. Would appreciate some feedback...

So you're feeding your sparge water directly from your RO container to your rims tube and it's able to heat to 170 before entering the MT? How does the grain affect your volume measurements? I suppose the initial MT reading is an arbitrary starting place and from there you're controlling the...

I assume it would straight forward to automate filling the MT to strike volume using a volume level sensor. How are you automating your fly sparge? Right now I fill my HLT with a calculated amount of sparge water. Fly sparging all of it and draining the MT fill my BK to the desired level...

Thanks crane. I'll check out tightVNC. Eventually I'll want to dedicate a pc to the brewery as I incorporate my fermenters and kegerator. Not sure how that will work if BC is installed on my desktop because I turn that off at night.

Need a bit of help to figure out my BC connectivity. My win7 desktop computer where I want to install BC is in my office and my brew setup is in my basement. I plan to use a 14" win10 laptop as the interface between BC and the MEGA. The basement because of distance and plaster walls in the...

I have decided to replace my 3 vessel, 2 pump, direct heat system (been brewing with it for several years) with an electric system automated with BC. This is a pretty long thread so I apologize upfront for asking questions that have probably already been answered. I really like @BrunDog's idea...

@kevin58 - pretty neat video. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks AJ. Talked to Russ over there and he's got me fixed up.

I currently have a large whole house water system that removes chlorine and other unwanted substances and leaves me with filtered city water that is Alk 98, Bicarb 119, SO4 9, Cl 4, Na 28, Ca 9, Mg 4 which is sometimes good starting water for a recipe. I have been using DI water from Walmart at...

Thanks augiedoggy. That simplifies things. Would probably only have 2 pumps going at one time. Anything I need to be aware of with the pwm boards?

I am in the planning process of replacing my direct fire, single tier, 3 keggle, 2 pump system with an electric system and rims. I've pretty much decided to replace my 2 chugger pumps with the tan 24v pumps and add a third for my rims. I want to get one of the tan pumps in so I can play...

augie, hope you're still monitoring. Great thread. A lot of really good information; appreciate your time in doing. Curious how your 3 bbl nano brewery is coming. I ran across this in the process of researching replacing my single tier, 3 keggle, 2 pump (chuggers) direct fire (natural gas)...

No, calibration is very quick.

Yesterday I brewed the two grain porter that calls for 6.25# Maris Otter (3L) and 3.6875# (65L) Brown Malt with my water (Alk 98, Bicarb 119, SO4 9, Cl 4, Na 28, Ca 9, Mg 4) adding 1.6g CaCl to 3.75 gal mash water and 2.15g CaCl and 2.8 ml 88% Lactic Acid to 5 gal sparge water. Mash was 150...

When we were in Ecuador a while back we had a really good Ginger Beer. It was light and refreshing with a good taste of ginger but not overpowering. I think this would be a great beer for the summer which is just around the corner. I don't want to make ginger ale. I want to make a ginger...

The .7 gals is considered in the strike water volume. The mash stirring only stirs the mash water above the false bottom unless I recirc with the pump when adding heat or at the end of the mash when I do a mash out. I usually shoot for a a mash thickness of 1.5 gts/lb so that the mash above...