Well, ****.
I must have spent at least 4-6hrs reading through... Almost every post.
Somehow I don't think it's been a waste of time because of all the good advice that was slapped about!
I'm just planning an AG setup and I think this serves as a pretty good example of how to avoid falling down the rabbit hole of design. You know, first it was looking into swapping a couple of pipes about while brewing, then I discovered camlocks, then the option of using multiple lines and three-way valves, and STC-1000's, then PIDs, and if that why not a full brew panel, then arduino, then Ras Pi, but then I might as well just get a BrewTroller, or a BCS with touch screens, and then it's worth getting a heap of solanoid valves with multiple pumps and then.....
And then I'll have no idea what I'm doing.
Good advice to just get the basics first; I've wasted so much time looking at "but what if I want to upgrade to this later" with revised design and products, I'd rather have just got on with it haha.
Luckily for me it's only been a couple of weeks!
p.s. For the record, I think Bandito is a very... interesting character.
Even though I think this project was pretty stupid, uneconomic and ill-advised, and that Bandito is an ******* (even though he doesn't realise it), I kinda wanted him to have his 'personal victory' or whatever and actually complete the brewery. For some reason I expected to see it built by the time I got to the last post.
..... Or maybe I just wanted to lick his balls.
p.p.s. SWMBO went ballistic after me spending about 4x as much time on beer as on her. Beer is good, but not worth living in the dog house :excl: