On a non brewing related story, im pretty sure i avoided getting robbed and or murdered in a craigslist deal today. Showed up at some shady looking house with its roof caving in near the chimney in the "wrong part of town" to buy a running stroller for the misses and baby and this haggard old lady in her 70's or 80's with hair up and in a night gown smoking(think mother of serial killer in horror movies) comes out to meet me outside. I ask if this is where the stroller is because i was expecting some 30-40 something, and she said yes...then she tells me the owner dude is in the back and i should go around the side of the house to go see him, and makes some random comment about how she likes my car(its a 09 outback? I mean its a great car but no one tells me hey nice car, its Oregon every 3rd car is a Subaru outback.) Immediately my NOPE NOPE NOPE sense goes off and tell her to go get him and bring him out front(in public i was thinking). 30 seconds later she comes out and tells me hes on the phone with the police now because the stroller was stolen, all i could think was uh huh sure it was...20 minutes ago he told me where to meet him without even checking if the stupid stroller was there? She asked if i wanted to wait while he talked to the cops on the phone, i said sure and she went back to see him and i NOPED the hell out of there in my car before some crackhead with a gun came out front, all i could envision in my head was some dude with a laser scope peeking at me through their blacked out(newspaper) windows. In hindsight, the stroller was probably stolen in the first place if it ever existed, i cant see someone living in that house with a $400 running stroller selling it for as cheap as they were. Ah the joys of Portland...
Now onto the brewing questions...both cables made yay...
Now about wiring those cables...as i understand it, which hot goes to which element post doesnt matter, does that mean that it doesnt matter which goes where on the plug side too?
Also i ran a multimeter continuity test on it and came up with some confusing results, both cables are the same so i am guessing its right? But would like some validation.
Hot 1 - Hot 2 - BEEP
Hot 1 - Ground - Silent
Hot 2 - Ground - Silent
Ground - Element - BEEP
Ground - Enclosure - BEEP
Both of the continuity checks that beeped confused me a bit, why are the HOT1 and HOT2 lines both together? I guess it makes sense sort of? But i was confused why the element itself beeped when checked against ground.
Here is my mock layout of my panel, as you can see it is quite cramped and will make cable routing a giant ******.
The small metal box on the bottom left is a 120V->5V power supply i am going to use to power the RPI since this is a StrangeBrew Build and i'd like to prevent needing to wire in a whole 120V outlet to power it, i want it to turn the RPI on when i power the main panel switch on. Far bottom right is a white breadboard i will use to wire up for the DS18B20's with the resistor needed and what not coming in from the XLR connectors. Top 3 are 2P 120V coil 40A contactors from Packard I found for a good price on Amazon, one will control main power, and the other 2 will control an element each(pretty standard?). And finally the board in the bottom right is my standard Sainsmart dual relay board im familiar with from my BrewPi build to power my Pump outlets.
I cant decide if i just want to do Wifi on the RPI(i have a USB wifi dongle it came with) or if i want to do ethernet hard wire. I'd rather do wireless if it will work reliably, but am trying to position the RPI in such a way i could get a ethernet cable in and wire it to a jack on the side of the panel if necessary.
PS - Its taking all of my willpower to not freak out about the small scatches im putting on my used stainless table as i move my pots around. I realize its just a fact of life but the side of me that wants it pristine looking screams every time i see it.
