Starting an Electric Brew control panel for AG brewing

[Crouch]

I picked up a 20m roll from Keg King ... I think its 12mm ID and 18mm OD. I love those quick disconnects, easy to use one handed - the only thing that gets me is the bloody clamps I've used, they dig into your palms. After some suggestions from others I'll replace those with zip ties

Edit, actually that didnt answer the question I made 5 hoses, of varying length - I didn't measure them I just sort of held them out and estimated how far I need them to go between the valves and pumps.

 

[sjp770]

Cool, so what was the cost of the fittings and hose all up? Hopefully you can point me in the right direction to grab it all soon

 

[Crouch]

The hose was $5/m - I think a 20 metre roll was $90?

I needed 12(?) male disconnect barbs (keg king part number is 005588) - they are $10 each
I needed 10 female disconnects (one for each end of the hose) - they were $6 each.

All up - $260 for the hoses ... ouch

 

[mofox1]

Yeah... Totalling things up its a bad idea. I've kept a spreadsheet on my expenditure for my build, and even purchasing a lot of my stuff from eBay etc, it's still adding up. My HLT will be almost $600 by the time I add sight glass, herms coil and water return.

 

[sponge]

If you're adding a HERMS coil to the HLT, then you can hide that under the HEX budget.



h34r:

 

[sjp770]

The hose was $5/m - I think a 20 metre roll was $90?

I needed 12(?) male disconnect barbs (keg king part number is 005588) - they are $10 each
I needed 10 female disconnects (one for each end of the hose) - they were $6 each.

All up - $260 for the hoses ... ouch

Thanks for that, I was looking at that much for 6m from ibrew, What were the delivery times like?

 

[sjp770]

If you're adding a HERMS coil to the HLT, then you can hide that under the HEX budget.



h34r:

BUDGET?!?! What is this you speak of?

I just thought it was an endless hole for money.

 

[Crouch]

Thanks for that, I was looking at that much for 6m from ibrew, What were the delivery times like?

i collected from them, not sure on delivery - sorry

 

[sjp770]

Well unless you went to China then that's a good thing. I'm hoping to get it all ready in the 2 week window

 

[sjp770]

Grabbed a few brass barbs to see me through. Also grabbed 12m of copper pipe to use as the hex.

 

[sjp770]

Some brass fittings to get me through the first brew.

Also don't judge me too harshly on the 12m of copper squeezed into the hlt. Messy but it should do the job

40A SSRs finally arrived.

Also I did this:

 

[sjp770]

Just need the heatsink

 

[sjp770]

mm mm....

 

[sjp770]

Picked up an Oxygen cylinder and regulator for $96 today, it was only $36 for the reg Went to grab another 3 piece ball valve but they wanted $59 for it!! nope.

 

[seehuusen]

wow, build coming along nicely mate I note that you've stopped keeping a public tab on what it has cost so far, LOL, I can understand why, though I'm still interested to know

I bet you can't wait to brew your first beer!! keep it up champ, not much left now!! :chug:

 

[sjp770]

Ran out of a termination ends for the bigger wire and everyone had shut, so I painted instead

 

[sjp770]

Gave all my 3 piece ball valves a clean disassembled with TSP. The Blichmann ones were very clean and the ones from the chronical were dirty and some gaskets didn't fit 100% right and had been crushed during assembly. Still working 100% but you can really tell the difference in cheap vs quality.

Next is the actual fermenter. I might get a sparky in today to mount the 32A wall socket.. depends whether I fit into the schedule.

Looking at trying tri clamp fittings instead of quick disconnects. For a set of 10x 0.5" npt threaded male to 1.5" tri clamp fitting, gasket, clamp and 1.5" triclamp to 12mm hose barbs its about $160. I think I want to add 3 more bulkheads for top return in each vessel so I might need to up that to 12 sets. Then I need to add the roll of tubing.

 

[sjp770]

What do you guys think about the trip clamp fittings for hoses? At least I'll be able to keep most of it when I move to a no thread system of butterfly valves and trip clamp fittings.

 

[Crouch]

"trip clamp fittings"? Do you mean tri clover clamps and fittings? My next system, which will probably be several hundred litres will use those fittings and sanitary welds. From my understanding those are requirements for any commercial system .. though I could be wrong.

 

[mofox1]

My next system

Your next system.

Next.

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