BrewinSoldier
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Long story short, decided to build a RIMS tube to replace my Blichmann RIMS rocket. I got it put together yesterday and decided to test it out today for a brewday. Got my mash water dialed in, turned on the pump to get the water flowing through everything for a few minutes like I always do to prevent dry firing. Then I turned on the blichmann electric controller and set the temp to 156°. The thing climbed to 180-188° which I thought was weird. It ran for a little bit and then started tripping my GFCI breaker. There was no dry fire, no burning smells, element looks fine visually. I took the RIMS housing off to test the element and took the two hot legs off of the element for testing. My multimeter is auto ranging and set to ohms. It was reading 1.087. Is my brand new element bad? Is this common? This completely ruined my New Year brew day which sucks.
The element is a stainless steel 240V 5500 watt fold back element from ebrew. Shot them an email but everyone is closed due to the holiday.
The element is a stainless steel 240V 5500 watt fold back element from ebrew. Shot them an email but everyone is closed due to the holiday.