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You are correct, How I read what he said above was they had a "HERMS" standalone pot not a herms coil in the HLT (was early, damn day light savings and a 1 year old gettup up at 4am) I have tested with using the MLT probe to set my HLT temp which produces overshooting even after tuning my pids...

I've also had a rig working the same with the probe on the herms out which worked fine, I'd recommend a hand held digital temp gauge to check your mash just to double check your mash is the same. If it is then your good to go, if not you'll have to adjust your herms set point to allow for the...

As a person recently selling their 3v system. It's hard to get what you pay for (depending on rig an person selling) I added my rig up "as new" and it was mid 2k with all those SS little parts adding up very quickly and if your electronic those parts also add up. Once I got my "as new" price...

Oh great! thanks for showing me BrewPI.... new project starting... -Gav

I think i phrased it wrong.... I know you need to push the wort into the HERMS from a lower position, my question was about which INLET of the HERMS to connect to which you answered in your second part. Cheers -Gav

My Last system had a dedicated HEX my process on brew day was - Preheat my HEX to around mashing temp (65c) - Get hlt to 75c~ this accounted for the grain temp absorption which would take it down to mashing temp,. roughly 65c - Dump grain into MLT underlet from HLT - Starting MASH using the HEX...

I've recently done testing of my new rig on this, I use a 75lt HLT with a Stainless Steel Coil mounted midway up the HLT. My HLT sits around 4-5c above the MLT temperature.. Once it's at the set temperature it seems to settle down and sit fine. I'm using PID Controller which have been tuned to...

Not sure if this has come up but does has anyone notice if there is any difference when you put your pump connector at the bottom of your HERMS coil pushing the wort up around the herm v's the top using gravity "pulling" the wort down the coil? Or is there not enough head pressure to make any...

Oh nice, the ones i've seen had about a 200mm probe end which would really dick around your temperature readings being IN the hex. -gav

Awesome, Rig.. Love the how compact it is.. How do you find those two pumps (think they're from nev)? work well? How long is your probe that sits on your HEX? If i remember those probes are pretty long.. I've had issues with having probes pointed down into the HEX..the problems was the probe...

Sounds straight forward, I had a brewtroller on my last rig it was nice the only thing I can't do with my PIDS that I miss is the auto volume, i.e. press start and my water in turns on and fills my HLT to my required level, then on sparge will start and stop when the required amount of water has...

When you add your grain you dont notice any loss of temp at all? or does it just ramp back up quick enough not to care? -gav

i had two keg king elements in my old BK and I didn't notice any wort scorching at all, I had both of them all full noise for 60-90 min boils.. Not sure about the whirlpooling while boiling, not sure how that would effect your rolling boil, If i was you I'd just through a normal brew and see if...

My 'slow mashing' comes from my old system which had larger ID for the HERMS and the ball valve, I had to restrict the flow to get a better heat exchange.. the term slow mash came from that not the best description i know :) .. My new system behaves different and I'm doing test with it being...

When you changed your probes over, did you retrain/configure you PID controller for that setup? Also where are your guys probe placements? is it on the ball valve outs? like the electric brewery? Mine are in the front of the vessel. I was wondering if this would pose any inconsistency with...

Just had an idea, since the probes are quick disconnected I just changed the MLT to the HLT probe and let it heat the HLT (HERMS) that way.. connect the HLT to the MLT just so I can see what temp its up to.. seems to be working... So I can see brew day. 1) Probe connected to HLT get up to...

That looks swweet!! I love having my brewery in the house but some days I do miss brewing outside. When your mashing how full is your MLT and does your MLT ramp up and have the same temp as your HLT? Just doing some tests right now and the HLT has to be a few degree above required temp...

How big are your pots? does your HLT say 65.5c and your MLT say 65.6c? i'm doing some wet tests with roughly 1/3 of my MLT filled and I need my HLT about 3 to 4c higher than my MLT to get the correct temp. I'm going to put more water in the MLT and do further tests... -Gav

It is good plumbing up the water and chiller, chiller more so.. They leak a touch so I still have them turned off at the wall and just turn them on for brew days but so much easier. when im chilling its great, no getting hose hooking it up bla bla, I just flick a switch and it starts to chill...