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I think the advantage of the mat is that is spreads the heat over the complete surface rather than from the bottom. You wouldn’t need to have the cone covered. Where would your thermocouples be located on the conicals?

I think you’re biggest problem will be in the winter if you are going to rely on ambient temp during fermentation. Could be expensive to run a panel heater for the duration of the FV process, difficult to control as well. Here’s a photo of the heating mat solution.

Yep you are spot on. The Maxis are quite old beer chillers, we picked up a refurbished one for £45, unfortunately had to pay £60 for delivery as was on a pallet as it was in Sunderland. It basically has an internal tank which is filled with water, the input/output is linked with a tube and John...

Hi, don’t know if this will help. Have just finished building an electric 100L brewery in an insulated, cladded shed. 1 have 3 100L fermenters. For cooling I use a Maxi 100 chiller and use the product line linked to a pump in an old plastic mash tun. Also in the tun are 3 other submersible...

Hi Wezzel any joy getting them on eBay yet?

I need 3, could you let me know just before you put them on. Cheers

Hi I ve been trying to source those Cherry Philip boards with no luck. Any idea where I can get them. TIA.

I used curtain weights, they are about the size of a 2p piece and have holes like buttons. I affixed a small piece of plastic to the bottom of the sled and threaded them with wire. The curve fits nicely in the bottom of the Petling.

Doing something similar, just put a diode in each +ve line.

Hi Pottsworth, wonder if you can help me. I’ve built an iSpindel and all seems to be working OK. However I am trying to sent data to Brewfather and it is failing to connect. Using Arduino serial monitor I notice that within the output string there is a Username and Password parameter. I’m...

I have built an iSpindel from a kit. All works OK for a few minutes. ISpindel appears on my network list and I can connect configure and get information. Then after a about 3 minutes the blue LED goes out and ISpindel disappears. If I press the reset button it stars up for another 3 minutes...