Kal Clone and New Brewshed

[kal]

I'm coming across this thread very late but thought I'd point out a few things and answer a few questions that seemed to go unanswered:

Also, for some reason the adj dc power supply I received is one-board with two units connected. Did you receive the same set-up and manually seperate the two power supplys from eachother - or did you receive two seperate units? Mine honestly looks like the manufacturer just forgot to cut the circuit board leaving the two units attached to one another.

That's probably what it was. You can likely just snap them apart - which I'm assuming you've done? We order them by the 100's so the manufacturer probably doesn't bother snapping them apart like this.

Thanks for all the info regarding using the cat5 - definitely going to go this route.

If you replace any of the wiring like this, make sure it's rated to 240V.

The HERMS coil inside of it though, I imagine you would clean that by running hot water + PBW through it after brewday is over

If he plans on brewing my process (I'm assuming he is given that he built my control panel) then you don't need to clean the HERMS coil at all as with my process you run the sparge water through it. This flushes out all sweet wort (so that you don't lose that 1/2 gallon of high gravity wort) and also has the added benefit of cleaning it. At the end of the brew day I simply disconnect the hoses and open the valves to let it drain, then give it a quick 10 second shot with the shop vac in blow mode to get out most of the standing water.

anonymousbrew: It's been ~8 months since your first brew on the setup. How are you liking it?

Cheers,

Kal