Fat Bastard
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G'day.
I'm building an electric kettle out of a Handy Imports 36 litre stockpot and I've been considering a 1 1/4" screw in 2400 watt element from http://www.thermalelectric.com.au/
I talked to a very pleasant young lady there who told me that yes, they've done similar elements for homebrewers, we can do it in stainless, and it'll incorporate the temperature probe as standard. (if you can be bothered, you can see something similar in section 9 of their .pdf cattledog)
After doing some calcs, she reckoned it would bring 30 litres to the boil in 2 hours and to 70 in 1. This seems a bit long to me, http://www.phpdoc.info/brew/boilcalc.html reckons about 49 minutes to 70 and 75 to a boil. Then came the killer, $158!!!
Over 3 times the price of the Craftbrewer ones! I can imagine the quality would be better, and it's got the temp probe housing and all, but 3 times the price?
Does anyone use one of the TEE elements?
What are they like, and how long does it take to get your kettle to boil? I can't go any bigger, I'm limited to 10A outlets in my rented flat, and would prefer to have just one element if i can get away with it ('specially at $158!).
Cheers!
I'm building an electric kettle out of a Handy Imports 36 litre stockpot and I've been considering a 1 1/4" screw in 2400 watt element from http://www.thermalelectric.com.au/
I talked to a very pleasant young lady there who told me that yes, they've done similar elements for homebrewers, we can do it in stainless, and it'll incorporate the temperature probe as standard. (if you can be bothered, you can see something similar in section 9 of their .pdf cattledog)
After doing some calcs, she reckoned it would bring 30 litres to the boil in 2 hours and to 70 in 1. This seems a bit long to me, http://www.phpdoc.info/brew/boilcalc.html reckons about 49 minutes to 70 and 75 to a boil. Then came the killer, $158!!!
Over 3 times the price of the Craftbrewer ones! I can imagine the quality would be better, and it's got the temp probe housing and all, but 3 times the price?
Does anyone use one of the TEE elements?
What are they like, and how long does it take to get your kettle to boil? I can't go any bigger, I'm limited to 10A outlets in my rented flat, and would prefer to have just one element if i can get away with it ('specially at $158!).
Cheers!