Datamike wrote:Unbelievable work Matho! Really brilliant!
You offer a complete solution to brewing a single-vessel brewery. The BrewTroller has the "boil kettle as mash" (unless they've changed it recently) or something, but as you mentioned, lots of mucking about to get it to work.
I'd love to build this thing RIGHT NOW, but I fear it's a bit above my knowledge and skills. I am trying to learn all I can though. Also, to make it work with a March 120v pump seems to require some significant changes. The 240v outlets we have here in the US are 4-wire, and from what I can tell that won't work with the pump.
Keep up the great work! BTW, are you an electrical engineer or similar?
Michael
thanks Michael, the changes required to run it on a 240/120 system wouldn't be that big, from what I can work out it would be something like this http://www.mediafire.com/view/?pred9es9i5tw1n7, switch the 240 with the SSR and use the 120 for the rest of the unit, it won't look as neat as the 240v only and the box might need to be larger but the box it is in is only 171mm X 121mm X 80mm (6.7" X 4.8" x 3.15") so its really small anyway.
I'm a sparky by trade but have done my advance diploma of electrical engineering here in australia but I don't know what that means in the US. My job is to test and calibrate protection relaying systems for electrical distribution and transmission systems.
cheers steve