Another stand is born

[krazydave]

Looks gorgeous, congratulations! I will definitely be stealing ideas for my one-day low-profile brew stand.

A few questions:

How is the diamond plate attached?
Are the Blichmann burners bolted to the diamond plate at all, or just resting there via friction/gravity?
Do you ever feel the need for a heat shield with your keggle and Blichmann combos? (Boiling in the sight glass, melting valve handle coating, etc.?)
And just out of curiosity, L to R in the photo is BK, MLT, HLT, correct?

Thanks!

The diamond plate is attached with 3/16 pop rivets, but the burners also bolt through it with self tapping stainless screws to the supporting beams underneath (answering your second question).

Heat shields haven't been necessary with the kegs. The valve handles are plenty cool enough to grab bare handed even after a full boil. Sight glasses have never boiled either. I did have a 10 gal kettle that I used on there before though and it was necessary to have shields on both the valve and sight glass.

The order that you listed from left to right is correct.

 

[krazydave]

This is a beautiful stand, Nice work! Just curious, where did you source the parts for your control panel? I'm working on a stand of my own and still need to complete the designa and parts list for the control panel.

Thanks!

The switches and lights all came from eBay. Controllers came from Auber instruments. Transformer came from pexsupply. And the wiring bits came from multiple sources (radio shack, Fry's electronics, OSH, Lowes). Enclosure came from a local electronics junk yard (size is 12x12x6).

 

[krazydave]

What kind of controllers are those? What kind of flame safe do you have on your burner system? Just curious.

Those are Auber SYL-2362 PID controllers which are in on/off mode. I've found that PID mode doesn't work well with gas valves as it tends to not leave them on long enough for the burners to actually light.

Flame safe is handled by the Honeywell VR8200 standing pilot valves. They have a thermocouple on the pilot burner. No flame = no gas!

 

[NWAleDad]

Those are Auber SYL-2362 PID controllers which are in on/off mode. I've found that PID mode doesn't work well with gas valves as it tends to not leave them on long enough for the burners to actually light.

When you say on/off mode, does this mean that the controller will open the valve based on the temp readings OR that you need to manually turn the burners on via the control panel?

 

[krazydave]

When you say on/off mode, does this mean that the controller will open the valve based on the temp readings OR that you need to manually turn the burners on via the control panel?

It's automatic based on temp but doesn't try to predict the temp and fire the burner for half a second to keep it there. So as it is it'll keep it within about .3-5 of where I set it.

 

[NWAleDad]

It's automatic based on temp but doesn't try to predict the temp and fire the burner for half a second to keep it there. So as it is it'll keep it within about .3-5 of where I set it.

Thanks for you help KrazyDave! Enjoy the new stand and happy brewing!