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Claudius I would love to hear more about your set up. Pics would be great if your willing. I am using a single DL06 and I believe it has about 20 I/O. If you are using two.. you must have some serious automation going on! :rockin:

That is a rather large undertaking. I am guessing you have an engineering background of some sorts? What is your target market for this product when you finish? Are you going to make this available to home brewers, or by larger did you mean more on the microbrewery scale?

I think you will probably still be ok. Check the amperage on the pumps and then add everything up. As long as you stay below 20A your good. -T

Ahhh gotcha. I use one pot as my HLT and kettle and then recirculate my mash through the same kettle so that I only need on "heating" pot. I forget that 3 heating pots is the norm... So as long as you only have 1 element running at I time I think you are still good to go. As for the other...

If you are doing 1 gallon batches a single 1500W heater should work. I am not sure if I understand your post correctly, but 3x 1500W elements in a single gallon is overkill. I use 4000W to heat 10 gallons and it works no problem. As far as plugging into a single residential outlet, I believe...

That is a bad ass looking set up! So how much of the process have you successfully automated? Looking at some of your diagrams and the auto feed hoppers it looks like all you need in order to brew is a web connection. Nice work! -T

I had a couple of these welded onto my keggle for the heaters http://www.mcmaster.com/#weld-on-tank-fittings/=b7arjq That way I can change them out, or if I decide to go 220V I can just screw a plug into the port that I am not using. If you do get them welded on make sure you find a shop that...

I wanted to be able to use my brew rig while at school in Boston so I went away from the 220V and used 2 120V 2000W Elements instead. The upside is I can now use my brewery pretty much anywhere. The downside is I have to find two separate 20amp circuits to plug the elements into. I end up having...

I use a keggle with two elements in it as well. For both my elements I connected the ground wire from the plug to the element enclosure and that worked well. If you already grounded your keg than you are all set. If you are worried one way to check is to bust out the volt meter and see if you...

There are some sweet electric brew rigs that people are posting up on these forums. One thing I have not seen a lot of though are PLCs. Has anyone played around with using PLCs in their brew rigs? I am currently building my rig with an automation direct DL06 PLC. I will post some pictures...

I was struggling with the same issues: Limited space and limited time. As a result I have been working on a semi-automated 10 gallon brewing rig for the past two years. I have finally gotten it to the point that I can brew with it, although there is still much more I could do with the...