Brian, you never picked up your motor today, wifey left it out as you said, it got rained on... Where were you bro?
Hey Pol,
When wiring up 240v element I think any safety precaution is a good idea. I started building mine and almost did not do this (before finding this thread).
I have incorporated using a 240v 30 amp double pole switch, but am confused as how to wire it up. The rest of my wiring I am confident in, but this is still not clear to me. Do you wire each leg vertically like a single pole switch or side to side? I realize this is a noob question, but better safe than sorry. Thanks for any input on the wiring of this heavy duty switch.
Vertically.
When you flip the switch up, it makes the connection. Now if the switch went left to right, left to right would make sense.
Thanks Pol, that is what I did, but it made be doubt myself when I saw that the top two screws were a brownish black color and the bottom two were a bronze color. It all makes sense to go vertically though.
Thanks for your help and this inspiring thread!
10/4 essentially is 10/3+grnd... 2 hot, 1 neutral, 1 ground.
Running individual wires will be much more expensive than buying 10/4 grouped/romex. Are you sure 10 gauge is even heavy enough? What size elements are you running?
If I can find 125' length of 6/4 at Home Depot I am sure 10/4 can be found somewhere, even online I saw places to order...
Doesn't Lowe's/HD have spools of it that you can buy as much as you need off of? You know, the ones on the rotating rack thing...some of those spools look like they hold 500'.
I am building the exact same setup as you pol. There is no 10-4 near me, just 10-3 with a ground. Seems to be the same just no coating on the ground. I think it should be ok, just checking with the experts.
Yep. Red, Black White and uncoated ground. Sounds like I have a winner. I cannot wait to start wiring up next week. I only have all grain kits left now.
Pol, I just wanted to thank you for the contribution of this thread and your attention to people's inquiries. I am in the final stages of planning an electric 10 gallon system and I have spent countless hours trying to understand every aspect of what I will be building. This thread more than any other has answered SO many of my questions so that I don't even need to ask them. HOWEVER.. be forewarned I may have many for you in the coming weeks or months!
really though, thanks so much, for sharing and for the inspiration!
LOL. Auber must be getting a lot of business from us...
I brewed on my BREWT (Pol-clone) last night. It is just so easy going... no pressure. I have found I can brew every weekend and not break a sweat.
I have been following this thread and slowing building my 10 gallon electric HERMS. Can't tell everyone how much I appreciate the help. I do have one question though, and am hoping I didn't make a mistake. When attaching the 10 gauge wire to my 5500 Watt element, I directly wrapped the bare wire ends around the screw and screwed it down. It looked to me as though it was a good connection. I then covered it in JB weld as POL said. I then questioned if I should have gotten one of those ring wire adapters instead of using the bare wire directly on the element. Is this going to be a problem? The only thing I could think of was a potentially bad connection?
Thanks in advance?
Holy ****! I just plowed through all 436 post in this thread! I think my eyes are bleeding!
Pol, what awesome build. I'm in the planning stages for my e-herms setup and I just wanted to thank you, as many others have, for such an informative post. I'm sure that I'll be reading it over and over throughout the coming months!
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