Mains electricity in and valve output hoses connected
07 Apr, 2014
Mains electricity connected and all valve output hoses connected ready for the first wet test.
07 Apr, 2014
Mains electricity connected and all valve output hoses connected ready for the first wet test.
07 Apr, 2014
Mains water hooked up and plate chiller installed ready for the first wet test – the chiller valves were set to off as the temperature probes weren’t in place (hence the 3 holes)
30 Jan, 2014
This is the current state of the build so far as of end of January 2014. Currently I need to hook up the mash tun and kettle return feeds, the plate chiller (along with temperature probes) and build the volume measurement system.
I’m also working on hooking it up to the net using a bifferboard as a serial <-> ethernet bridge so I can start remote monitoring and uploading recipes to the Brewtroller in BeerXML format
26 Jan, 2014
Added a sight tube to the mash tun out line. It not only looks good, it will enable me to see when the wort is clear before transferring over to the kettle for the boil.
26 Jan, 2014
The valves I bought are stainless steel, but at $50 each leave something to be desired in the quality department. This valve was killed by putting 15v into it as the case said 9-24v on it. Opening the valve revealed not only that the PCB was labelled 3-12v, but that the PCB layout was incorrect and rather than redo the PCB, they’d manually wired the ill fated component in.
The new board is on the right and appears to be of better quality.