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I've been workin' on a control panel for my system for quite a while and finally found some time to get off my incredibly sweet (so JP says) ass and finish the front.

Still have to build its housing and mount it to my stand, but here it is stuffed and lit up (this is not a state it will ever be in once implemented -- just wanted to test all the indicator lamps).



Flip switches and
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that thing is sweet
does it have and "EBS" like Kit from KniteRider?

Push Eject wrote:I've been workin' on a control panel for my system for quite a while and finally found some time to get off my incredibly sweet (so JP says) ass and finish the front.

That thing is nice!!!

Kai

Thanks, guys!

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Nice. And Dennis Leary said that weed leads to carpentry. I bet he never looked into home brewing. You guys make some of the neatest shit. Nice job.

I'd like to see your schematics. What purpose does the AC Voltage meter play? Did you use a 555 timer for the time remaining panel? The HLT and mash tun panels are sweet. Are they PIC progammed. How are you gonna integrate your thermometers into these PIC panels?

The face plate looks powder coated. Nice job on the counter-sunk mount holes. How did you impose the controls labeling?

The pump on led seems redundant with the ledded power switch.

Please tell more as I wish to design a similar unit.

now I really feel stupid. I just liked all the bright light things.

rich wrote:I'd like to see your schematics.

Here you go:

rich wrote:What purpose does the AC Voltage meter play?

Fluff.

rich wrote:Did you use a 555 timer for the time remaining panel?

I modified a kit from here: http://www.canakit.net/Contents/Items/CK247.asp

rich wrote:The HLT and mash tun panels are sweet. Are they PIC progammed.

Just on/off Love TS controls (Cole Parmer.com)

rich wrote:How are you gonna integrate your thermometers into these PIC panels?

They feed into thermowells in the HLT and Mash Tun through XLR connectors

rich wrote:The face plate looks powder coated. Nice job on the counter-sunk mount holes. How did you impose the controls labeling?

Actually it's 12 guage aluminum with a coat of primer, 2 coats of flat black, silk-screened lettering and 5 coats of satin polycrylic clear coat.

rich wrote:The pump on led seems redundant with the ledded power switch.

It is. Fluff it up some more.

Da Bear wrote: now I really feel stupid. I just liked all the bright light things.

Shit-Howdy! Me too!

I'm being hammered for a how-to. When I finish documenting it I will post it here.

Brew it and then
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