Show us your electric brewing rig

[Jmurm]

How do i load a picture on this beast?

 

[ocluke]

How do i load a picture on this beast?

The site requires you to pay for that feature (Premium Member).

 

[renevdb]

The site requires you to pay for that feature (Premium Member).

You can use any photo site ala Flickr or Picasa and just insert the link.

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

Stand built now. Now to build in the electrical wiring...

 

[klyph]

That looks beast captain, good work.

 

[Jmurm]

All I wish for Xmas is a premium membership I will try out picasa

 

[wildwest450]

Here's what you do with zero electrical knowledge. A simple, electric setup controlled with ranco's. The control box is a 4 wire setup I bought online.

 

[passedpawn]

Here's what you do with zero electrical knowledge. A simple, electric setup controlled with ranco's. The control box is a 4 wire setup I bought online.

Buh-LING!

 

[Layne]

What Passedpawn said!

 

[BrewBeemer]

Here's what you do with zero electrical knowledge. A simple, electric setup controlled with ranco's. The control box is a 4 wire setup I bought online.

That double duplex recept is screamning for a SS trim plate.

 

[wildwest450]

That double duplex recept is screamning for a SS trim plate.

Oh snap, good call! Runs off to spend $30 on a stupid cover plate.

 

[BrewBeemer]

Oh snap, good call! Runs off to spend $30 on a stupid cover plate.

Just one of many examples available;http://www.ajitiles.com/store/produ...d=133&osCsid=69df4d7576f2c293eae80f583f886086

SS DDP plate for $4.50

 

[wildwest450]

Just one of many examples available;http://www.ajitiles.com/store/produ...d=133&osCsid=69df4d7576f2c293eae80f583f886086

SS DDP plate for $4.50

Bling on a budget, that's me.

 

[Hoodweisen]

awesome zip tie usage the call sign of a true electrician

 

[Layne]

Here's mine.

 

[ZooKeeper]

Here's mine.

Going to need more details, because that setup looks flipping awesome.

 

[passedpawn]

Going to need more details, because that setup looks flipping awesome.

The first detail you need to know is that, although often overlooked, "Bling" starts with a silent letter: $

Man it does look good.

 

[BrewBeemer]

The first detail you need to know is that, although often overlooked, "Bling" starts with a silent letter: $





----------Man it does look good.

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Does not, I hate having both sides of my wallet touching each other without some green padding between them.

 

[Layne]

Passedpawn is correct!

We are in the final stages. Almost complete. We brewed a 5 gallon test batch last saturday.
The Custom SS stand was built by my neighbor, he's a fabricator among other things.
20 gallon Blichmann boil kettle, 15 gallon mash tun, and at the bottom, a 15 gallon HLT
The BK and the HLT are both set up with 5500w elements, so they can be swapped out for larger or smaller batches. The RIMS is 4500w. It's all fed by a 50a ground fault receptical.
The temp sensors are from Derrin at Brewers hardware as is the RIMS tube and tri clamp fittings.
It's all controlled by a BCS, but can be controlled manually with the 'switches' box.
The electronics were built by Boerderij Kabouter. Thanks buddy!
Also many thanks to Kal, and his exelent Electric Brewery website for the element mounting ideas, and much more.

 

[BrewBeemer]

Layne, that's too nice to brew with just look at it no touching without adding fingerprints and lip marks kissing it. Congrats.

 

[Layne]

BrewBeemer, thanks. I'm really proud of it, and will enjoy brewing on it for a long time.
It took me a year of designing and redesigning to come up with the perfect rig for my cookshack.

 

[Walker]

these threads kill me.

I have a fully frunctional e-HERMS, but if Kal's and Oihio Ed's (and some others) are playboy centerfolds, then mine is a $5 crack whore.... and nobody wants to see that.

 

[BrewBeemer]

It took me a year of designing and redesigning to come up with the perfect rig for my cookshack.

Key word "redesigning" times a couple reams of paper ya think?
I go thru printer ink as much as the kids in high school with a mountain
of paper notes aka "Stanford & Son's Trucking" the wifey comments, damn well cost a tree or two I bet.
What's your heating degrees a minute with 20 gallons 5.5KW in the BK from
150 to boil without insulation may I ask?

 

[Brewmoor]

Here are my two rigs. My home rig and the one I use at the Brewery.

 

[Layne]

BrewBeemer, I'll have to check my notes at home tonight.
I know it was quicker than my stove

 

[klyph]

these threads kill me.

I have a fully frunctional e-HERMS, but if Kal's and Oihio Ed's (and some others) are playboy centerfolds, then mine is a $5 crack whore.... and nobody wants to see that.

I have no shame about posting my $5 crack whore.

 

[gunner65]

Nice, would have to move it up to a 2 dollar whore though, not quite a rock bottom crack whore!

 

[kal]

...if Kal's and Oihio Ed's (and some others) are playboy centerfolds, then mine is a $5 crack whore....

Ha! I love it.

In keeping with that thought, here are a couple of the more 'artsy-fartsy' pictures I've taken of my setup. Kind of like the soft focus 'dream sequence' shots you'd see in the center fold-out section of the aforementioned magazine...

Kal

 

[Walker]

here's my crack whore, with the added atmosphere of of dimly lit grainy pictures. Makes you feel dirty, doesn't it?

 

[gunner65]

Walker, It looks as good as your profile! LOL!

I see no problem with that rig at all!