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[kahlerisms]

Go HSB! All the best, mate.

I'm standing up to a certain car manufacturer at the moment as a result of some not-good-enough behaviour myself.

All the best with your hearing. Sounds like some of the issues so far are contradicting each other. Keep us up to date!

 

[hsb]

Will do. Appreciate the support. Good luck with your own battles.
What this cowboy left me with, and his stance since, has been such a downer but I'm trying to do things the right way right down the line in response.

With some strategically donated beers I think I can source some high quality legal advice of my own. My suspicion is this guy just thinks he can stonewall/ignore it all and I'll just go away.
If he'd have refunded me immediately, perhaps I might have, but having now paid to have my kettle ruined, well, I'm not going anywhere! To the bitter end!! Cheers!!!

 

[Bridges]

Keep fighting the good fight hsb. Don't let the ******* beat you!

 

[djar007]

Here is three pots I just got for eighty bucks. After I give them a big clean up I am going to setup my first 3v system. I am doing heaps of research and am just trying to work out what style frame to build. I dont really want to be moving these too much as they are 140 litre. Should make my brew days a little more intense than the previous BIAB efforts. Very excited to see what I can come up with. Will post pics are my build progresses.

 

[QldKev]

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Here is three pots I just got for eighty bucks. After I give them a big clean up I am going to setup my first 3v system. I am doing heaps of research and am just trying to work out what style frame to build. I dont really want to be moving these too much as they are 140 litre. Should make my brew days a little more intense than the previous BIAB efforts. Very excited to see what I can come up with. Will post pics are my build progresses.

Check out this thread, I did a few 140L pot BIAB runs. You could run 3 simultaneously

 

[djar007]

Thanks Kev. That looks really cool. . Looks I better go to spotlight and get some swisse voile. Lucky I pick up heaps of grain this weekend. Looks like I will be chewing through it now.

 

[kahlerisms]

Where did you get your pots so cheap?

 

[jezza79]

 

[jezza79]

there is my rig up above.
as you can see i am **** at computers!

 

[djar007]

I posted the link in the ebay section. They were on grays. The are cleaning up well. Bit hard to get into to clean. But a bargain I think.

 

[keifer33]

I'd say a 140l is easier to get into that say a 50l

 

[vortex]

A few pics of my single tier stand I welded up on the weekend. Brewery will be semi automated RIMS. 70L MLT and Kettle, 48L HLT. Planning to upgrade the Kettle to 98L and move the current 70L to HLT.


Brew stand progress by auvortex, on Flickr


burner mounted by auvortex, on Flickr

Random fabrication shot:

Brew stand burner end by auvortex, on Flickr

Some of the stainless to be used:

BREWPORN! by auvortex, on Flickr

RIMS tube:

RIMS Tube by auvortex, on Flickr

HLT element cover

Brewers Hardware Element Cover by auvortex, on Flickr

Trub filter

Trub Filter by auvortex, on Flickr

Random shot of the BeagleBone (v1) to be used to control the automation:

BeagleBone with OneWire sensor. by auvortex, on Flickr

Relays to be used for controlling the RIMS and HLT elements. May need to look at changing to SSR's if the PID software makes these too noisy..

Relay board by auvortex, on Flickr

 

[NickB]

Holy....... Wow. Very nice. BeagleBone?

EDIT: Just saw the link. Nice.

 

[Edak]

That is all super cool, so much bling! The only issue is the relay board, you will most likely have issues with mechanical relays.
1. Electrical noise from spark gap.
2. Burn out the relays using PID
3. Noise!

Numbers 1 and 2 will be the killers.

 

[hsb]

My CTTT application is lodged!

NSW Fair Trading were, ultimately, as much use as a chocolate immersion chiller. The conclusion of their 'conciliation process' was to post me photocopies of empty forms and Fact sheets. Nice people on the phone but got that sinking public service feeling in their commitment to actually helping me. Fingers crossed the CTTT are more invested. Oi oi, should be fun anyway, make this **** put on his wedding suit and pay for City parking at the very least. Cheers. :beer:

The BeagleBone looks the biz, SSR are so cheap, might be easy to swap if above doesn't work out?

 

[vortex]

The BeagleBone looks the biz, SSR are so cheap, might be easy to swap if above doesn't work out?

I'm using that relay board because it's I2C, so it uses only a couple of pins for data (SDA/SDL) plus VCC and Ground. If I go to all SSR's, I'd have to use a lot more pins - though I'm actually wondering if a couple of the mechanical relays could be un-soldered and SSR's connected to their triggers. That way I can keep using the I2C interface - and consequently the software I've already written to control them.

I'm sure there would be a lot more to it than de-soldering the mechanical relay and soldering up a wire with connector to control an SSR though.

 

[Edak]

You will find that replacing the relays with SSR's will probably work, then you can use I2C for SSR's

 

[vortex]

You will find that replacing the relays with SSR's will probably work, then you can use I2C for SSR's

The board wasn't too expensive so I'll give it a bash with two of the relays that will be used for heating elements.

 

[Edak]

My point was not that the board was expensive or cheap, rather if the relay fails then you will likely have a messed up brew. In the Matho Controller thread people had huge issues with the mechanical relay that ran the pump and the electrical noise it generated each time it switched on/off. I just want you to avoid this problem.

 

[vortex]

My point was not that the board was expensive or cheap, rather if the relay fails then you will likely have a messed up brew. In the Matho Controller thread people had huge issues with the mechanical relay that ran the pump and the electrical noise it generated each time it switched on/off. I just want you to avoid this problem.

Thanks for that, I appreciate the input. I was essentially justifying it to myself by reminding myself out loud it was cheap - so if I do kill it removing two of the mechanical relays it's not the end of the world

I'll have a go at de-soldering a couple of the relays tonight and see how it goes.