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I do rather like beer.....
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I've decided to upgrade my awesome four port power board and swapping power cord for something thats a little more professional
We're moving into our new home in two weeks which I've got a brewery room built.. It has a laundry sink, plumbed in hot and cold water and the 22,000lt tank from outside plumbed in via two threads in the wall so I can this with my plate chiller instead of using town water.
I've also got the brewery on its own circuit (we have 3 phase 40amp) and since I didn't understand what I wanted at planning stage i ended up with 20amp (three flat pin) plug and two 10amps to use with the rig. From that I designed my control panel with the great help of guys in the brewtroller irc channel (mainly jcdillin) and I've started to wiring it up.
I sourced a full Stainless Steel enclosure that had a computer and touch screen, the board was busted so I gutted it and started planning..
Stage 1 of my brewtroller upgrade will have the following.
- Brewtroller 4.0 board (LCD inteface)
- 1-wire temprature and sensors for all vessels, h2o IN and out, Beer in and out
- On off Auto switching of elements, pump
- USB interface
- Water level sensing for all vessels
stage 2 will be the automation stage, i.e. Moterised ball valves and fully plumbed lines.
What I have to play with for my rig is
- HLT (70lt with a single 2200watt element)
- HEX (small pot with about 9m of copper coil with a 2400watt kettle element)
- MLT (New 70lt Robinox pot yet to be drilled)
- Kettle (70lt Robinox pot with two 2200watt elements
- March Pump
- Aquairum pump for water level sensing
so a bit of power required there, If I know what I know now I would have just got a 40amp plug put on the wall.
Here is a few pics of the control panel as I got it.
Here is the back of it with a heat sink and two fans (it was made to be fully sealed)
Under the lid there is a nice plate ready for my to mount all my goodies. The handy thing is there is already a 5a power supply there which is perfect..
the computer which was in it had a blown chip onboard , i found a replacment for $90 but couldn't be assed getting it, I saved all the screen etc so I can connect up to a LCD port and make something else with some old pc parts..
here is the wiring diagram that I had made up after some help from the brewtroller guys..
and here is some of the wiring that I started yesterday until I found out I didn't buy enough stuff to finish it
NOTE: Only the SSRs are stuck down ther rest will be done once its complete.
you can see the brewtroller 4.0 mounted with its USB and 1-Wire module mounted.
here is the front of the control panel which requires a sheet which i got today at a mates house, had some 1mm SS sheeting floating about..
the tape around the ende is to mark where the face is visible
We're moving into our new home in two weeks which I've got a brewery room built.. It has a laundry sink, plumbed in hot and cold water and the 22,000lt tank from outside plumbed in via two threads in the wall so I can this with my plate chiller instead of using town water.
I've also got the brewery on its own circuit (we have 3 phase 40amp) and since I didn't understand what I wanted at planning stage i ended up with 20amp (three flat pin) plug and two 10amps to use with the rig. From that I designed my control panel with the great help of guys in the brewtroller irc channel (mainly jcdillin) and I've started to wiring it up.
I sourced a full Stainless Steel enclosure that had a computer and touch screen, the board was busted so I gutted it and started planning..
Stage 1 of my brewtroller upgrade will have the following.
- Brewtroller 4.0 board (LCD inteface)
- 1-wire temprature and sensors for all vessels, h2o IN and out, Beer in and out
- On off Auto switching of elements, pump
- USB interface
- Water level sensing for all vessels
stage 2 will be the automation stage, i.e. Moterised ball valves and fully plumbed lines.
What I have to play with for my rig is
- HLT (70lt with a single 2200watt element)
- HEX (small pot with about 9m of copper coil with a 2400watt kettle element)
- MLT (New 70lt Robinox pot yet to be drilled)
- Kettle (70lt Robinox pot with two 2200watt elements
- March Pump
- Aquairum pump for water level sensing
so a bit of power required there, If I know what I know now I would have just got a 40amp plug put on the wall.
Here is a few pics of the control panel as I got it.
Here is the back of it with a heat sink and two fans (it was made to be fully sealed)
Under the lid there is a nice plate ready for my to mount all my goodies. The handy thing is there is already a 5a power supply there which is perfect..
the computer which was in it had a blown chip onboard , i found a replacment for $90 but couldn't be assed getting it, I saved all the screen etc so I can connect up to a LCD port and make something else with some old pc parts..
here is the wiring diagram that I had made up after some help from the brewtroller guys..
and here is some of the wiring that I started yesterday until I found out I didn't buy enough stuff to finish it
NOTE: Only the SSRs are stuck down ther rest will be done once its complete.
you can see the brewtroller 4.0 mounted with its USB and 1-Wire module mounted.
here is the front of the control panel which requires a sheet which i got today at a mates house, had some 1mm SS sheeting floating about..
the tape around the ende is to mark where the face is visible