Just to report to the group: I have ordered parts and two occasions from www.brewhaus.com and both times everything arrived as ordered and on time. Some other...
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Robert Hubble
zymurgybob@...
Mar 5, 2008 5:07 am
Trid, you said it just fine. That from an old broken-down retired EE who use to write theory-of-operations crap about embedded systems for a living. It's been...
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mavnkaf
Mar 5, 2008 2:22 am
Hi mstehelin, I found this on the net for $50 AUD, I'm not sure what a sink heat is but it might be ok? product No.90704 750w 1'' BSP Sink Heater ...
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mstehelin
Mar 5, 2008 12:52 am
I think that your average North American hot water tank heater would fit those requirements. Great! Now I can put Riku's spiral still to the test! Cheers M ...
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Trid
triddlywinks
Mar 5, 2008 12:24 am
... Failing that, you can always find one that's rated for 240V and for 4 times the power that you need. Then just put 120V on it instead and you have exactly...
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martin martins
mm123.rm
Mar 4, 2008 11:10 pm
Mobile kettles, the type that are designed for heating a couple of cups of water in hotel rooms. If hotel kettles go missing I am not liable. Oh, they run off...
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mstehelin
Mar 4, 2008 10:53 pm
I have been looking for low power elements but have not found any. All the elements that I pull out of the kettles (that I pull out of the dumpster/recycling)...
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ArnieW
arniewie
Mar 4, 2008 10:00 pm
I was thinking an analogy might help here. If you are set for a romantic night and want to dim the light in your lounge room, then you adjust the light-dimmer...
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toddk63
Mar 4, 2008 9:41 pm
Its the SR (Single Reducer) design. Yes 2" column 2" column would be perfect with your 3600W element so long as you have a variac or other temp controller....
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morganfield1
Mar 4, 2008 9:19 pm
Last I knew, Bob the Borg was the "Keeper of the Secret Knowledge" of controlling the boiling point temperature! I wonder how he's doing, anyway. Tip one,...
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whynda
Mar 4, 2008 9:24 am
... you ... Sorry Riku, It was an attempt at sad humour directed at the people that will insist on trying to control mash temperature. Harry (the other one)...
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abbababbaccc
Mar 4, 2008 7:20 am
... To what purpose, what do you achieve with that? If you want vapor you need to boil the mash and boiling temperature depends on mash composition which...
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whynda
Mar 4, 2008 7:02 am
... YOU CAN NOT CONTROL MASH TEMPERATURE if you want to generate ... but nothing works either :(...
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Harry
gnikomson2000
Mar 4, 2008 6:44 am
... Nothing wrong with the way you said it, Trid. Or you Riku. With all the variables, the complex processes and actions/reactions going on in distillation,...
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Trid
triddlywinks
Mar 4, 2008 6:21 am
... ...or you could say it that way. Geez, I need to work on my brevity. Trid -pedantic tonight...
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Trid
triddlywinks
Mar 4, 2008 6:20 am
... No. You have no control over the gradient, only the top end, the head. You have no control over what your boiler is doing because its composition...
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abbababbaccc
Mar 4, 2008 5:26 am
You need to keep the mash boiling in order to generate vapor that you can condense. The boiling point (i.e. temperature) increases as alcohol from the mash is...
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Harry
gnikomson2000
Mar 4, 2008 5:25 am
... No offence taken Jim, so you've got nothing to apologise for. There's too much fun happening here for molecule-sized things to be rocking the boat. Re...
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jamesonbeam1
Mar 4, 2008 2:15 am
Yes Harry, Right with ya boss. As a matter of fact, I studied this chart way before I found this forum and started distilling and posting here. I found...
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gff_stwrt
Mar 4, 2008 1:45 am
Hi, Todd and Peter, hi folks, Todd, can you tell me, is your Bokakob still the slant plate one or another of his designs? And have you used a two-inch column? ...
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Caleb Dunstan
phantompower.rm
Mar 4, 2008 1:07 am
On the surface, this sounds good, even with keeping within 0.1 C tolerance. In ... But donąt you need to keep the mash and the gradient of the drop in temp...
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Trid
triddlywinks
Mar 3, 2008 11:25 pm
... On the surface, this sounds good, even with keeping within 0.1 C tolerance. In the case of coffee, hot water boilers, ovens, and the like, it's a really ...
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duds2u
Mar 3, 2008 10:42 pm
I think a light just came on for me. Thanks Harry. I had read that chart a number of times and had never considered using it in reverse to work out a dilution...
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Harry
gnikomson2000
Mar 3, 2008 9:35 pm
... just use a simple PID controller and a K-type thermocouple for control, and hook that up to an SSR which is feeding your heating element. That would give...
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Jack o' the Green
r_jeff_m
Mar 3, 2008 9:22 pm
Thinking about it a bit, I think Harry is right. Publishers should consider "Electronic literature" as the ultimate form of marketing. If they included a...
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Caleb Dunstan
phantompower.rm
Mar 3, 2008 9:21 pm
Hi, I'm a newbie, and have not actually built my still yet, but why not just use a simple PID controller and a K-type thermocouple for control, and hook that...
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Harry
gnikomson2000
Mar 3, 2008 8:10 pm
So, now that you've digested that little bit of info on reading charts, let's put it to something really worthwhile, particularly for pot distillers (you with...
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Harry
gnikomson2000
Mar 3, 2008 5:13 pm
... <http://tinyurl.com/28xnt9> ... Good charts, Sherman. That shows the result of one (1) simple distillation with a given starting mash percentage (proving...
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mavnkaf
Mar 3, 2008 2:12 pm
Thanks Sherman, Thats not the only thing that is confusing me at the moment. I'm trying to work out the best way to use a 1 inch full bore ball valve in a...
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Sherman
pint_o_shine
Mar 3, 2008 1:13 pm
Yes the liquid vapor equilibrium is hard to understand. I made a graph using some equations from HD that gives a practical application of that concept as...
