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Hi: Just made my second batch with the new GF Connect control box last night. The whole system is pretty slick and made me very happy until I pressed the button in the iPhone app to start my boil timer and the box went dark. Checked circuit breakers, plugged the box into other outlets in the...

Sorry about the late reply, Sparty - summer got away from me. I only did the doors with the full paint job, although I hit the white cabinet in the first round of Rustoleum in some damaged spots and it's held up fine. The final paint job was: (and this took me about a week of fitful efforts)...

Thanks so much!

I would like to install a sight glass - my errors have come when I wasn't really aware of how much wort was in the kettle because the basket was on top of the whole works. I'm going to go a-rummaging in the DIY threads, but has anyone here done it and have tips to offer?

Ha! I had to dig mine out of the compost heap this weekend!

I completely agree and expect to put it into my V2. (You know, I used to obsess about the next batch in terms of wanting to try to make something cool out of barley, yeast, and hops. Now I'm *also* obsessing about the next batch in terms of wanting to make something cooler out of the data.) A...

I'm having a wonderful time with this and am poking around with the spreadsheet some more. I've noticed a few things. First, I think it's an error to make the graph a line graph. What we're really looking at is a scatter plot. The 1 degree resolution is what it is and it makes more sense if...

Heh. I'm trying to figure out a way to answer, 'both!' I haven't dug into the BrewPi source code enough to know how hard it would be to add a bluetooth receiver to the BrewPi and have it take input from the Brewometer. For the time being, though, my new Brewometer has been in its inaugural...

Yes and no. Most side-by-sides work like this: all the cooling happens on the freezer side, and the fridge is cooled by a damper that allows some air from the freezer into the fridge. The only electronic thermostat is actually controlling the freezer. (although you can get entangled in light...

Thanks! Yes, I have separate control over the two chambers. So far I've successfully had the keg side running at 38F and the fermenter at 68F with no apparent war between the two. The energy bill for the thing is amazingly low considering its vintage.

I am pleased to say the second paint job stuck and was great. So I went out and bought a pair of taps, a drip tray, two more kegs, another CO2 cylinder and regulator, and asked a friend to make a stainless backplate. Good thing the fridge was free. The controllers work like a hot damn -...

I thought this part was going to be easy. I decided to take the awful faux-wood handles off, sand everything, and repaint with rustoleum. DH and I are loyal to rival universities, so I thought it would be fun to give the fridge a nice paint job besides the white rust-stopper. Here's the...

So, the fridge was just down the street, and we could have it for free! DH and I wandered down to get it and pushed this 1989 side-by-side Frigidaire back up the road. Michigan potholes and little fridge wheels don't get on so well: we broke or lost three of four axles before we got it home...