mwill07
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has anyone got any pictures of one of these installed in a standard keggle?
Thanks!
Thanks!
A kettle is a kettle. The blichmann needs to make room for the dip tube but other than that, use the template and drill 2 5/8 holes.
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This is 2 4500w coils in my HLT Keggle.
It doesn't have to be aligned with anything. You can place it anywhere in the kettle, as long as it doesn't interfere with anything inside and there is room for the plug on the outside. The lower in the kettle the better.....so not sure what to align the template with. Anyone else run into the same thing? Suggestions?...
It doesn't have to be aligned with anything. You can place it anywhere in the kettle, as long as it doesn't interfere with anything inside and there is room for the plug on the outside. The lower in the kettle the better.
Krieger, have you had a chance to install the boilcoil in the bayou 10 gal pot? I'm looking at doing the same, but would like to know if it's possible to use the Basket as well?
Or if any one else has done this could you let me know your thoughts?
One thing that I did find out, by accident, was that dry firing the element didn't destroy it immediately. When I pumped the water into the tun I forgot to turn off the heater. Then, while it was recirculating I had to go deal with something else for a few minutes and my in/out flow rates weren't quite matched so the top turn of the element got exposed. The splashing wort burned onto the element pretty bad, but with a scrubbing pad and some barkeepers friend it cleaned right up and I was able to continue.
I've got the 55 gallon G2 kettles with one element in each for brewing 1bbl batches. Other than having an initial problem with the cords which was due to a manufacturing issue and Blichmann swapped the full coils and cords out without an issue, they have worked great. I am still thinking I am going to get another coil for the BK just to speed up getting to a boil, but that is for another day. I brew about once a week now, but that should also be going up soon.
For cleaning I got a fairly stiff plastic brush with a long handle and use that with warm pbw. Gets the coils to look like new.
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