Recent content by Ppeg34

They also make a 24 volt model for practically the same price if power is something you are concerned about. It doesn't sound like you are going to have an issue.

I haven't posted on here in a long time, but I just have to say PJ has probably helped more people with his seriously in-depth knowledge of brewing than you have met in your life. He was just trying to help you too. Are we reading the same forum? Because if we were you would see that his...

Thought I would pass along this deal on Arduino shields: http://slickdeals.net/f/6311860-huge-arduino-clearance-at-radioshack-b-m-dont-trust-the-marked-prices-shields-starting-at-2-48 I am thinking this is about as cheap as it gets for these as I have never seen them cheaper.

I am curious how you have a hard-plumbed tippy dump? Are you just going to disconnect to dump it?

Well that's about the most no-nonsense thing I have ever heard! :cross:

Yeah I am with both of you on that. I am thinking this would be no problem to be the boil kettle. My worry would be that for an HLT it would be too difficult to hit target temperature without an under/overshoot for your mash. Although, I am confident that once you build it you will have...

While browsing the internet on how to bring this dream to fruition I stumbled upon this: It is a series of 8 videos on exactly how to make a rocket stove out of a barrel. The one they build uses a 60L (15 gallon) cooking vessel. It looks to be just the ticket. I guess the one improvement...

Here is my newest design. With the addition of an adjustable air inlet, you should have a pretty high degree of control over temperature. The wood would be loaded vertically into the feed chamber and a cover placed over the top to prevent uncontrolled airflow. The sketchup doesn't show any...

I am now thinking I am wrong on this one. Although this seemed completely right in my experience, I am seeing a lot of places say that all chambers should be the same diameter all the way through the system. I think the big risk with making the horizontal chamber smaller than the rest of the...

After fiddling a bit with the design of the my rocket stove I think I have found a general rule to optimize the burn... Like I said before, I was feeling like my stove wasn't all that it could be and I believe the reason why is in the horizontal chamber The horizontal chamber is the area...

That is a pretty awesome tool that looks like it would result in an awesome finished product. I wish this was an option for me, but I am currently renting... Add this to the list of never-ending diy projects that will commence once we buy a home. Maybe this is an option for the OP? In some...

Here is a photo of one I built out of old bricks and cinder blocks from the woods. I used clay dirt and water as mortar. I mocked it up without any mortar and think it worked better before. I am thinking that this may have something to do with there still being a lot of water in the clay...

Thats not a bad idea. It is a lot easier to control steam than it is to control combustion temperature and air flow etc.

I am in love with this idea. Let's say as a conservative estimate that there are about 6000 btu's per pound of seasoned wood (from my few moments of internet searching). Let's say that you need to bring 12 gallons up from 50 degrees to 212, that's 162 degrees. There are 100 pounds of water in...

Well you shouldn't need to bring any temperatures up, just maintain your mash temperature, so this shouldn't be a problem at all. As long as the air in your fermentation chamber around your mash tun is the same as your mash temperature, the mash tun can't lose any of it's energy to the...