110V Single Vessel RIMS Build

[cegan09]

Couple pictures from last night.

Mash water coming up to temp

Grains added, mash starting

Almost at boil, hot break starting. Before I added some anti-foam.

Ended up with 6 gallons in the fermenter, and it looked to be starting to take off this morning.

 

[cegan09]

Well, since photobucket decided to up and destroy forums the internet over, and because i can't edit posts that old anymore, going to upload all my photos again here.

This post contains the original CAD models and my initial controller box layout

 

[cegan09]

Now the controller build out.

 

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The actual stand build

 

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Making the stainless pickup tube including mistakes and practice materials.

 

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Pictures of the stand in use

 

[augiedoggy]

The short ones are still low watt density, so no worries there. Difference is like an inch or two.

There is like 30% difference in WPI (watts per inch) between just the shorter and 2.5" longer 1500w element. I' know either works but all im saying is if presented with either the longer will have less chance of scorching in the right conditions.

 

[cegan09]

There is like 30% difference in WPI (watts per inch) between just the shorter and 2.5" longer 1500w element. I' know either works but all im saying is if presented with either the longer will have less chance of scorching in the right conditions.

Shrug. I have over half a dozen brews with this configuration at this point and have never seen any evidence that I had a scorching issue, even with some very high gravity beers.

If the longer one had been in stock at the time I would have bought two of those, but there was only one so I went with it. No regrets so far.

Edit: reading back my intention was to buy two short ones, not long ones. With what I've seen so far I think I'd stand by that decision as well. The shorter ones would work fine with no scorch risks. Largest beer I've done so far was over 1.1 OG and it barely had any more build up on the elements than any other beer I've done.