jekeane
Well-Known Member
I have no wiring expertise other than basic homeowner stuff. But I went ahead and jumped all in of a DIY kit. All in all it went pretty smooth I think but I have run into a problem. I got everything assembled over the past couple weeks and plugged it in to see if my house would burn down. No elements or pid's were plugged in.
Everything turned on initially and all of the switches seem to be triggering their respective jobs. Accept 1 the element leds. I got my 30a kit at ebrew supply and the owner has been a good resource, I just think he is a bit busy atm and I was hoping to get this sorted this weekend.
I think there are two leds for each element a Yellow and White. The white lights up for its respective side when I toggle the switch. The contactor also clicks on, on the subpanel. However the yellow LED which comes from the contactor does not turn on for either side.
Best I can tell I have it wired correctly. I believe that when I first attempted to switch the elements on the yellow leds worked and then I tried out the Estop and they stopped working. I am not positive this is the case though. I do know they did flicker the first few times I tried after i noticed they work working and now they don't.
Another note which I'm not sure is related or even a thing the light on the SSR's is off at all times (there is no element attached) and the light on the estop in the sup panel is on.
Update: I heard back from ebrewsupply and he thought from the pictures that everything looks to be in order and suggested that I possibly got the wrong voltage LED. He didn't say however what voltage it is supposed to be. So I shot him a reply email when I could get home and check it out. The yellow element LEDs in question are acdc 12v while my white element LEDs are 220v. I'm assuming this is a problem and the LED's I sent were for the BCS build not a PID build. Is this a safe assumption? I smelled a strong new components heating smell when I first fired it up, not burning just warm new plastic. Maybe it was the 12v LEDs getting fed by the HLT and Boil contactors?
Here is the diagrams Im working from: http://guide.ebrew.supply/ Pg 84-85 is the wiring in question.
Top view:
"back"
"front"
"side"
contactors
Subpanel
Everything turned on initially and all of the switches seem to be triggering their respective jobs. Accept 1 the element leds. I got my 30a kit at ebrew supply and the owner has been a good resource, I just think he is a bit busy atm and I was hoping to get this sorted this weekend.
I think there are two leds for each element a Yellow and White. The white lights up for its respective side when I toggle the switch. The contactor also clicks on, on the subpanel. However the yellow LED which comes from the contactor does not turn on for either side.
Best I can tell I have it wired correctly. I believe that when I first attempted to switch the elements on the yellow leds worked and then I tried out the Estop and they stopped working. I am not positive this is the case though. I do know they did flicker the first few times I tried after i noticed they work working and now they don't.
Another note which I'm not sure is related or even a thing the light on the SSR's is off at all times (there is no element attached) and the light on the estop in the sup panel is on.
Update: I heard back from ebrewsupply and he thought from the pictures that everything looks to be in order and suggested that I possibly got the wrong voltage LED. He didn't say however what voltage it is supposed to be. So I shot him a reply email when I could get home and check it out. The yellow element LEDs in question are acdc 12v while my white element LEDs are 220v. I'm assuming this is a problem and the LED's I sent were for the BCS build not a PID build. Is this a safe assumption? I smelled a strong new components heating smell when I first fired it up, not burning just warm new plastic. Maybe it was the 12v LEDs getting fed by the HLT and Boil contactors?
Here is the diagrams Im working from: http://guide.ebrew.supply/ Pg 84-85 is the wiring in question.
Top view:
"back"
"front"
"side"
contactors
Subpanel
