Since you brought it up, I'll be the devils advocate (or not in this case
) and lament here if not for anything else, to inform people who may not know this going in.
In truth its not just a few hundred bucks more a person would be paying for this very simple BIAB (basket, bag whatever)..
Its more like $7-800 over the cost of building it. A lot of people cant help but notice this controller is extremely inferior to the older generation of EZboil based brau controllers because its nothing more than a $9 stc hysteresis temp controller with a thermister temp probe and $5 ssr.. Instead of bringing the costs down or improving the product they cheapened it in this regard and raised the cost. Add the retail costs of the components, $79 mkII pump, $50 in valves and non sanitary threaded tc fittings (camlock would be much easier to actually use for this job here), $20 element, wiring costs($40),$20 silicone hose, $6 for the aluminum enclosure, 99 cents for the pump switch and in the end you are paying like $1000 for the kettle and assy. every single component in this build is avaliable on aliexpress or ebay from china but the custom made modified steamer kettle itself. None of this stuff says top shelf quality to me BTW but is rather the most economical options to choose for max profits.
A person should consider they also now have the option of a real pid system made from the prewired inkbird pid controller with a real rtd temp probe
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WD6X17V/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 for about $100. This would make easy work of assembling something comparable with minimal effort and skill in an hr or two for like $400-500 depending on how fancy one wants to get with the components. (and at $500 you could have things like a real lwd element that pulls out with TC bases for easy cleaning, camlocks which would be superior to TC fitting threaded on in a non sanitary fashion which offers all the headaches of using them with no advantages here except bling and the option to use either a basket or bag since a brewboss style basket can be custom made to fit just about any kettle for around $100.. Plus the best part is you can easily maintain it yourself!