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At least we know exactly what goes into our beer athumb..:beer1:

These V8's are pretty reliable that's for sure. More cylinders generally means less RPM per hp and mph, which equates to less engine wear at the expense of higher fuel consumption. Pre GFC cars were built to last too. By engineers. The big difference between your XFR and today's JLR products is...

I'm in agreement with some of the comments here and would be very careful purchasing any JLR product as they seemd to be plagued with issues which are broadly down to poor engineering decisions and quality control which runs counter to their brand prestige and accompanying price. iPaces have...

I haven't done any back to back brews to test this, but there's a long detailed explanation from Scot Janish here -> Unpacking Hot Side Hop Flavour in the section 'Oxygen-Containing Monoterpene Alcohols', and a shorter anecdotal comparison of the results from one of the brewers at Yakima Chief...

In normal operation, about 10 minutes after you've dropped it into your fermenter/water there are no lights on. You might see one flash when it wakes up to send telemetry but until then they're all off. Admittedly I was confused by this too and I think it's the source of a lot of needless...

I've had mine for about 2 years and have done over a dozen brews and have had zero issues. I use it for 2 things, deciding when to dry hop, and deciding when to finish, and for each of these I use both the SG and Velocity (SG per day) lines\values. You might want to walk through with this...

The correct EX30 LCA Report tl:dr - the biggest benefits come from choosing the variant with the smaller 51kwh LFP battery.

Thanks for the links, I'll dive in later. Mine was a Masters too, but marriage, moving from NZ to London, and paying the rent got in the way so I converted to P.G.Dip once I started work in IT. B.Sc. in Geology preceded. I think I've found the updated 2021 report and only looked at the tables...

The XC40 averages about 3.7 miles per kwh, while a Hyundai Kona is closer to 4.7 Miles per kwh and the Model 3 is about 5.1 miles per kw/h so the report isn't a misrepresentation exactly it's just that there are more efficient EVs which has a direct impact on the calculations, as does the ICE...

No probs, my post grad in the 90s was in Environmental Science so I think its important that everyone understand the tradeoffs and realities involved, and the only way to really understand these is to look at and compare the total end to end lifecycle of 2 like for like vehicles as Volvo...

Ok so US Gallons and Imperial Gallons are different so lets look at the fuel consumption figures side by side. Combined UK fuel consumption for the XC40 1.5 T2 (Petrol ICE) is 37 to 41 MPG and Co2 emissions are 142-146 g/km, which puts it into Band F and is pretty average for this class of SUV...

There's a lot of misinformation out there but this very detailed and scientific end to end lifecycle analysis by Volvo of the fully electric XC40 Recharge EV under a range of charging assumptions vs the XC40 ICE shows that the breakeven point for Co2 is much longer than most people realize and...

As a total newbie I got an All Access subscription for Xmas 2022 from my wife which included the shipped physical magazine, a digital download, and way more importantly full unlimited access to the courses and the subscriber only recipes. The subscriber only recipes are a great asset for me...

Good to know. athumb.. That heatsink I'm using is a bridge so has a long run of fins below the SSR and shorter runs either side of it so has plenty of surface area to dissipate heat. I'm thinking that when I mount it next time I'll use some adhesive mounting material that I've used in the past...

I hear what you're saying here, but if I'm understanding everything correctly, when the PID switches the SSR on, it's on 100% immediately or is there some sort of dwell time while it switches and gets to 100% power, or are you simply saying that when it's cycling (1-6) it's able to remain cool...

Lots of valuable information here. Thanks for taking so much time today to help us muggles (non-wizards) out. clapa You've really given me a kick up the backside to remediate some of the errors I've made. I don't think I've strayed too far from your guidance so that it's currently unsafe but I...

Thanks for the detailed reply, I now understand what Zero-Crossing means and will make sure I choose the correct SSRs going forwards. Interesting about the inverse impedance values of the elements, but that's why we have smart engineers. Cheers

This is a very interesting thread as like you @hoppyscotty I built my own electrics using opensource software and a proprietary brewery controller, and about 12 brews in I burnt out a 16A rated toggle switch rather than a terminal block as in your case On digging into this I eventually got this...

Updated my blog with an entry on fixing this switch burnout issue. After 1 brew it seems to have solved the problem. athumb..