2000w not enough for 4G, other ideas?

[TexasWine]

It gets to 209 very fast and suddenly stalls

I'm pretty pissed about this boilcoil. I went all out n bought a 5000W element that can hardly make a rolling boil

I'm about 99.9% sure the your frustration is misplaced. This is based entirely on the fact that it gets to 209F quickly.

With 5k watts across the line, you should see a rolling boil, even with water and even with the low wattage density of a Boilcoil. And even with 1250 watts (1/4 of 5k) you should see a nice simmer.

Perhaps you should start a new thread to garner some more troubleshooting feedback. You're buried in someone else's thread right now.

In the meantime, going to ask a couple of questions, not to insult, but just to make sure all the boxes are checked.
-Are you in boil mode?
-Did you set bast to 0?

 

[augiedoggy]

I'm pretty pissed about this boilcoil. I went all out n bought a 5000W element that can hardly make a rolling boil

Now im confused? are you sure you have 240v going to the element? if your using a 5000w (240v) As mentioned if your wiring is wrong and your getting 120v your getting 1250w max which is not really enough for a good boil on 6 gallons.

5000w is plenty for up to 20 gallons of liquid to make a good boil.

Like Texas wine mentioned please post some details like if your in "boil" mode with the manual pwm dial set at 100 or at least above 70%

This is one of those situations where having an amp meter which everyone seems to think is useless, really comes in handy because it tells you exactly how much power your element is drawing.

 

[bignick270]

I did some testing tonight. The element is 7 ohms and during load there is 116v at the element. I did a short boil and made sure manual mode was set to 100%.

I just got to settle that the boil is not super vigourous (i did start brewing on propane).

 

[ZmannR2]

Ya that makes about 1889 watts. Honestly man there's some
Good stuff out there about not really needing a vigorous boil. Such as this:

http://brulosophy.com/2017/05/29/boil-vigor-weak-vs-strong-exbeeriment-results/

 

[bignick270]

I just ran another batch on Sunday and noticed I hit a plateau around 203 but if I cover the pot half way with the lid I can get up to 207 with a decent rolling boil. At this point I can remove the lid and the temperature will remain around 206 to 207 for the duration of the boil.

 

[ZmannR2]

I set my ezboil to beep at 210 at which I’ll remove the lid and it will pretty much be coming to a boil soon after that.