Another Rims Wiring Diagram help please

[jwelch1103]

I am asking for help with a wiring diagram for a system I am finally going to get together. I want to use a RIMS tube with a 5500 watt ULWD element wired to use 120 volts power along with a boil kettle using another 5500 watt ULWD element wired to use 240 volts. I plan to use two PIDs and two pumps. If possible I want to stay with a 30 amp power supply and if neccessary can substitute a 4500 watt element in the boil kettle to do this.
Hopefully this is possible as I have purchased everything described here except the PIDs. I have looked aroud the site here and found twenty-some diagrams by PJ but not one exactly like what I envision. Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.

 

[P-J]

I asking for help with a wiring diagram for a system I am finally going to get together. I want to use a RIMS tube with a 5500 watt ULWD element wired to use 120 volts power along with a boil kettle using another 5500 watt ULWD element wired to use 240 volts. I plan to use two PIDs and two pumps. If possible I want to stay with a 30 amp power supply and if neccessary can substitute a 4500 watt element in the boil kettle to do this.
Hopefully this is possible as I have purchased everything described here except the PIDs. I have looked aroud the site here and found twenty-some diagrams by PJ but not one exactly like what I envision. Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.

It is difficult for me to help you as your description is rather vague. I've drawn quite a few diagram that fit you description.

Now what - ????

 

[jwelch1103]

Yes Sir, you have created many diagrams and from reading here they have helped many people. I have seen 23 separate diagrams of yours including 19 reposted by Oatstraw. Though none that I "think" would work for what I am planning on doing (without some minor changes) which is using 1 keggle to heat up strike and sparge water as well as serve as my boil kettle while using a 10 gallon cooler (initially) as my mash tun. I plan on using a RIMS tube during the mash that will be controlled with one PID while the second PID is to be used to control the boil kettle. After mashing I will use a second keggle with no heat to temporarily hold the wort until the boil keggle is drained of strike/spare water. I hope to stay within the capabilities of a 30 amp GFCI breaker if possible. If I remember correctly there is at least one 50amp diagram that would do what I plan on but that would require much heavier wire and I have laid up about 70' of 10/4 SO cord and a new 30A GFCI breaker. Perhaps this has been diagramed before and if so please point me in that direction. Thank you very much for any help you may give.

 

[P-J]

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References and links would help a lot.

It's up to you.

 

[jwelch1103]

I found a drawing, titled "Auberin-wiring-a13-SYL-2352-4500w-RIMS" and dated 10/25/2012, that is very close to what I want to do except:

• the RIMS would be wired to 120v using a 5500w element
• the boil kettle would use another 5500w element

I'm thinking that since the RIMS would only be drawing 11.46 amps I could use a 25A SSR there and replace switch #1 with a SPST switch but am not exactly sure the wiring change required to do this. I think I would just have to replace the Line 1 feed to the switch #1 with the neutral, but I don't want to melt down all this expensive equipment I've bought.
Now if using a 5500w element in the BK requires the use of a selector switch to ensure both elements aren't fired together then I could go with a 4500w element. Thank you for looking at this.

 

[P-J]

Ok.. I spent some time drawing and revising the diagram you picked out to fit your description..

Let me know if this will work for you.

Click on the image to see and save a full scale diagram that is printable on Tabloid paper (11" x 17")​

I hopes this helps you.

P-J

 

[jwelch1103]

That is perfect and will help me immensely. Thank you very, very much.
You are the man!