Fly sparging with a pump?

[Leukass]

I have a question about sparging with a pump....

I am planning to set my top tier with a SS MT and BK next to each other on burners and then my HLT elevated on a shelf for fly sparging and using a pump to go from my MT to my BK. My question is this - if i am gravity fly sparging will there be enough wort coming thru the system not to burn up my pump as i am pumping into my BK?

Or how do you handle sparging with a pump?

 

[bennihana]

if you put a ball valve on the output of your pump, assuming that it is magnetic driven, you can slow down you wort to match your sparge speed. It is going to be very slow but possible.

 

[Leukass]

yes - i did get a ball valve for the output on my pump. I got a chugger pump if that matters at all?

Thanks

 

[USAFSooner]

I have a two tier wooden setup with a single chugger. I pump from MLT to BK and throttle the output from the pump with a ball valve. I crack it to where wort barely flows. MLT ball valve is wide open. My gravity fed HLT trickles into the MLT at about the same rate the wort is entering the BK. No issues...a typical batch takes about 45 min to lauter. When the pump stops pulling wort you'll hear the sound change. I usually have about a qt or two of extra wort and end up shutting the pump off before the MLT empties though.


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[texashomer]

I set up my rig generally as you've described. I have the HLT up high and the MLT and BK on the same level. I fly sparge with a Chugger pump through a HERMS coil within the HLT. Once I get a flow going out of the MLT I set the ball valve at a flow rate that takes 30 minutes or more to gather my 7 gallon target.

 

[robfar]

I have my TopTier set as you describe, but with a cooler MT on a shelf next to the kettle. Pumping slow from MT to kettle is good. With the Autosparge it's great