Roadie
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Envious of your ceiling height. Looks like considerable room. Are you doing HERMS?
Thanks for the headsup, definitely planning on putting down some insulating medium before I fire them for the first time. I just got the Blichs out of the box this evening to determine what the height of the hood was going to look like
Envious of your ceiling height. Looks like considerable room. Are you doing HERMS?
A suggestion for insulation is to go to Home Depot and they have precut round lazy Susan pieces that just happen to be 17.5in in diameter, which are the same as your blichmann kettles. I used it on my build. Check my brewery build link for detail. Your build out looks really good so far. Nice job !
If you don't mind me asking, what is the hood going to cost? I have mine made from foam board and want to do it right. Thanks.
That's an great price, and an excellent idea to check fab shops. I started looking for a full sized hood with drain online and couldn't find one for less than 1200, except at places that looked shady. I will check shops around me to see what I can find. To pick your brain, is there a reason not to go with something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00146KBT4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
The bling factor is obviously gone, but it should move enough air at ~450CFM, and is cheaper at ~$420. I'm sorry, I don't mean to hijack your thread at all, it just looks like you've done your homework and would have a valuable opinion.
@Keith
I used the SYL-2352's from auberins.com for my PIDS (Boil, HLT)
and I chose the smaller SYL-1512A for the thermometer probe.
@Docubruw
I went with the KIT from Kal's website: http://www.theelectricbrewery.com/custom-temperature-probes
After assembling all 3, it was one of my least favorite tasks of the build so far. If money is no object, I'd actually strongly recommend buying them fully assembled. Using the expandable sleeving was a huge pain.
I'd loved to see the schematic. Not to critique but to follow lol. I am going to start ordering my parts soon.
Deluxe cable looks very nice as well, I think you made a wise choice.
The 120v (B) leg in my panel (affectionately referred to as the B leg) is on a 15amp circuit breaker. I did not fuse the pids individually, no. I'm not sure I saw the reasoning behind needing the 7amp fuse that Kal built into his, but the panel design he used is quite different (relative) to how I built mine.
I did use ebrewsupplies schematic as my starting point, but I made changes I thought were more logical to protecting the panel and incorporated a 3rd 'pid' (the thermometer) which was not on the schematic. I should probably do an updated schematic with my design and submit it for critique as I'm sure SOMEONE would love to find the faults in mine!
BTW I used the Deluxe cable as well, and I have no complaints. It does what it's supposed to and I didn't have to do any soldering, other than fixing a wire I accidentally broke off a pin on the panel connector.
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