keg meter

[Grott]

For every 19 litre keg of beer you drink you will urinate about 30 litres.

This has got me thinking. What a bloody great diet- drink 2 kegs and drop 22 kilo (base on 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilo). I knew there was another great reason to drink

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

https://www.aldi.com.au/en/special-buys/special-buys-sat-26-sep/saturday-detail-wk39/ps/p/magnetic-gas-tank-gauge-1/

I think that's worth a crack?! Place toward bottom of keg and at least you get warning it's half way/nearing the end?

 

[Kev R]

I just sit my keg on a $9 set of bathroom scales from kmart. 19lt is about 19kg

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

Bit hard with 4 kegs jammed next to each other in a kegerator though...

 

[Moad]

Well my obsession with all things arduino and Rpi has led me down the rabbit hole to Raspberry Pints and Kegbot. I got both running last night, kegbot I didn't particularly like the interface so got RPints running. It feels limited compared to Kegbot. I've ordered some cheap flow meters through ebay that are the same as they link to on the adafruit store.

Kegbot you need an arduino board for each two taps whereas RPints you can get away with one arduino for as many taps as you have pins available. Someone also has arduino logging over bluetooth for RPints which could be cool.

Does anyone have experience with both systems, what did you prefer?

 

[Lionman]

These look like a simple solution.

A magnet float on the inside and a magnetic ball on the outside. The ball on the outside rolls down the keg as the beer level drops.

http://www.brewmart.com.au/brewmart-shop/catalogue/?detail&ItemID=2756&SZIDX=0&CCODE=16432&QOH=2&CATID=246&CLN=1&keywords=magnet

 

[malt junkie]

Well my obsession with all things arduino and Rpi has led me down the rabbit hole to Raspberry Pints and Kegbot. I got both running last night, kegbot I didn't particularly like the interface so got RPints running. It feels limited compared to Kegbot. I've ordered some cheap flow meters through ebay that are the same as they link to on the adafruit store.

Kegbot you need an arduino board for each two taps whereas RPints you can get away with one arduino for as many taps as you have pins available. Someone also has arduino logging over bluetooth for RPints which could be cool.

Does anyone have experience with both systems, what did you prefer?

I've only played with pints but if you read through the HBT V2.0 release thread ( yes it's huge) one of the guys did a full rebuild allowing for flow meter calibration and metric as well as graphical changes from an easy to use setup page. I'd link but on the phone on a train.

 

[Moad]

Yeah I rolled out v2.0 and wasn't impressed. I'm going to go back to kegbot but the challenge is working out the pin change interrupt code changes required to add more sensors in the default sketch.

I'm not a coder but do enjoy a challenge. Either way I'll have something functional once the JG fittings arrive to screw onto the flow meters I scored at jay at today (last stock).

 

[malt junkie]

jay? Jaycar?....

 

[Moad]

That's the one!

 

[Moad]

Malt Junkie I'd be very interested if you had the rebuild with Metric included, I did see a post somewhere among it but you are right the thread is ridiculous!

edit: this it?
https://github.com/HentschelT/RaspberryPints/releases/tag/th-2.1.1

 

[malt junkie]

I'm half way through keezer MKIII, my now very old Raspberry is in a box waiting. Probably like you, my brain keeps morsels of information that are handy, some times difficult to find though. Your link may well be it, I don't think there have been too many rewrites which is surprising. When I get into my next implementation, I'm going to wifi the arduino, as the keezer is a sit at bench on wheels with taps off one end. Also when I move 18mths ago my 32" TV display got smashed so another piece of gear to save my pennies for.

Baby steps.