New Grainfather Connect Controller (Pre-Orders)

[Batz]

well yes you can do that, but it's not what I meant. I meant the mash water is at 67 degrees or whatever ready for mashing in. Some guys have set a mash schedule so they mash in at say 9pm, rest it at 50 degrees for 180 minutes, do a 2 hour mash and then give it another 180 minute mash out and then up in the morning ready to sparge.

Ok, and yes that's what I was on about. My old 3V could have water ready for mash-in at a set time in the morning.

 

[peteru]

The Connect controller on it's own has no real time clock. You can set a delay and target temperature to heat up the water for mash in.

In my case, I set the temp to 95C and delay for 9 hours the night before. On the brew day, the sparging plus about 1/2 of the required mash in water was pre-heated to 95C when I was ready to start. The first thing I did was to pump the 95C sparge water into a spare vessel. I then added cold water to the remaining 95C water. That got me to a start temperature only a couple of degrees short of mash in. I set the mash temperature to 65C and I was ready to go in only a couple of minutes.

I suppose if you have the app working in tandem with the controller, it can take input in wall clock time and calculate the delay as required. I can't report on that, because I have no access to the Android app and no iOS devices.

 

[Marcus]

I had exactly the same question so rang NZ. The tech support person put me on hold an went to check. When she came back she told me that there is only one difference. The switch on the base of the GF is now and ON/OFF switch instead of HI/LO switch.

Based on that, I bought an older stock GF + Connect controller. It was the same price as a new model GF Connect, but in the process I ended up with a controller that I can use for the HLT. The window of opportunity for that might be closing. Once all the existing stock of old controller GF units is gone, the only option will be GF Connect.

Awesome investigative work! Cheers.

 

[HBHB]

One of the mods might like to bump this last bit across to the grainfather discussion thread so it's not interfering with sponsors posts