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@Andyhop That sounds much better and yes, coolest place you can find to help the clearing process.

I've checked a couple of times during the last 24 hours. With a big current drain, shower, voltage drops to 234, never seen it rise above 236.

My hydrometers only measure between 1200 and 980. How are you measuring the Red OG and the white FG? To my inexperienced eye the white OG looks in the right area, I couldn't measure the other numbers with my equipment?

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One of the likely reasons you're not getting a long run time is that 220Ohm resistor in the voltage divider. There's now a 5kOhm load across it all the time, rather than the 230kOhm. If you can get it out without damage it would be well worth it!

When I made wines in the dim and distant past, A3 newspapers, pink bits on the maps, pocket change measured by the pound (weight), fermentation was a lot slower (or is that these pink glasses) a quick shake of the demijohn, let it all settle, bottle and drink. @johncrobinson Thanks for the...

Been fermenting for 1 week to the day, been very quiet on the bubble front for the last 2 days. SG reads 990 and used recomended dose of Vin Classe Fermentation Stopper. No bubbles rising to surface after I let the demijohn settle down after shaking. There's no activity through fermentation...

I have a degassing question. This morning I've tried degassing my latest creation by shaking the demijohn and also by using a degassing wand, but there's still gas coming out when I shake the demijohn again. Using the wand attached to a drill, I've gone 5 seconds in each direction for 2...

So today's iSpindle conundrum! How do you get your iSpindle out of this FV? After pouring the liquid from the FV into a 1 gallon demijohn time to retrieve your precious gadget. Trouble is the opening isn't wide enough for it to just slip through. Jiggling, tilting, swirling, tapping nothing...

Not going to tip it away yet, I'll see what happens to it in the bottle. The only thing I know I didn't get right was the degassing so it didn't clear quickly. Yes, each 1litre was pure juice, nothing else listed on the ingredients, not from concentrate.

Nothing nasty during fermentation at all.

I used 1 litre each of Orange, Apple and Pineapple plus 900g of sugar, pectolase, citric acid, nutrient and GV9 yeast. Fermented out in a week.

Just a word of warning about the sledge from my experience. I don't have a 3D printer but have someone who's happy to print for me. The size of the finished sled did not fit into the Pelting straight of the printer. I needed to spend a couple of hours removing quite a lot of material. It's...

Reporting back on this (my second) batch... I didn't fully degass I guess as I couldn't get it to fully clear, just a vague cloudiness. Also there's a very peculiar vaguely pineapple smell and taste? It doesn't taste off, just not that pleasant to taste. I'll see if that changes with time in...

The CherryPhilip and OpenSourceDistilling PCBs fit the XL Pelting snuggly. To get either of these to fit into an XXL your going to have build some sort of support to get it to fit and not rattle around inside the XXL. Also you're very likely to have to provide a lot of extra ballast to get it...

I've been donated from a family member a 2 Gallon Favorite home fermenter, apparently it's quite old!? It's a bit of a drop to get the iSpindle into the liquid on a 1 gallon batch though.

This is a lesson learned! It was a close thing, I so nearly didn't use the 2 gallon FV as I'd only recently got it and didn't want to try it out on what I hope is going to be a good drink. @Chippy_Tea Thanks for the tip, if I EVER do a WOW in a 1 gallon fermenter again...

I don't think stopping at the shoulder on a 1 gallon demijohn would have saved me from the wrath of She Who Must Be Obeyed on this occasion! No matter how good the finished result?

Yesterday I started of a receipe I found for Sauvignon Blanc, original receipe is: 1l WGJ, 1l pineapple plus 1l apple and 900g sugar. I substituted grape concentrate for the WGJ. Original receipe added just half the pineapple juice and half the sugar initially the rest added when less...

The OpenSourceDistilling PCB is designed with some removable "ears" on the side and end of the PCB that are filed off to give a snug fit into YOUR pelting. Also there are no tracks near the edge of the the PCB that can be damaged by over zealous filing! I just wish I could find a smaller FV...