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   1. Documenting my build, PID and electric pot

      by Ante, 13 years ago in BIAB Automation

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      After thinking about it on and off for a couple of years, I decided that it was time to try out brewing.
      Beeing on paternity leave, I have had some time to come up with different ideas for a build, (which has resulted in some strange ones) but in the end I decided to go for a simple BIAB pot with PID control.
      
      *I went for a 25L pot (as this pot was really cheap, I would have prefered 30L) with a 2.4kW heating element.
      The heating element is the one from PECOservices ,
      quite often used by...

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      If you have a manual setting on your pid, set it to about 4-5% and stir every 15-30 minutes. At that setting, the element is not putting off that much heat, so no scorching, and puts off just enough to keep the temp from dropping too much. I brew in my detached garage and, while having heat to keep it at 50-55*F, just leaving the kettle with no heat it loses too much, even if covered. KISH! (keep it simple homebrewer)
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      lonetexan
      13 years ago

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