Electric brewery controller build

[Klemay83]

Next year i'll be getting round to building a shed/brewshed in the garden and will be moving the majority of my brewing out there.

in the mean time my plans is to start to put together various elements.

So today i picked up an old ticket printing machine from work. The great thing about where i work is that we have old junk lying around in various cupboards and stores.

The plan with this is to make an all in one electric brewing control unit.

It will house a STC-1000 and connector for the mash tun temperature node, so i can monitor mash temperature

then either 1 or 2 PID units for the boil, again with connectors for the temperature node from the boil kettle. and all the various switches for that control element of things.As well as sockets for the elements.

I'm also going to install 2 13amp sockets in it so that the unit can be used as a fermentation chamber control unit too.

Here's a few pics of the unit before it gets it original gubbins taken out.

 

[Clint]

...add a lawnmower engine some drain pipes a load of wires (any) some wheels plus any other stuff you have then you could be like the A Team and come crashing out of your shed to blow up some international criminals without actually harming them!

 

[Oneflewover]

...add a lawnmower engine some drain pipes a load of wires (any) some wheels plus any other stuff you have then you could be like the A Team and come crashing out of your shed to blow up some international criminals without actually harming them!

:lol:

Liking the plan for the brewshed. If only.....

 

[Clint]

...crazy fools I ain't going in no brew shed!

 

[aamcle]

Once your boiling a PID does nothing more than a PWM it just turns down the rate you're boiling the temp will still be 100.

You may find a PID with a PT100 not a thermocouple would be a better option for the mash than a STC.

atb aamcle