Brewsit
Well-Known Member
I’m curious what other people are seeing out of their RIMS, specifically 5500w 240v RIMS to heat 20ish gallons of cold HLT water, for example.
I have an HLT I’m using as a holding vessel with the RIMS to heat strike and sparge water. 25 gallon vessel, tap water is 45 degrees.
I ran a test run on my system and while I wasn’t measuring flow rate precisely, I had the valve throttled down low enough that any more would be closed... and I was only seeing a 30 degree jump in the temp in the tube.
It took 2 hours to heat about 20 gallons from 45 to 165 this way.
I’m suspicious that it’s my crappy Fotek SSRs that may be limiting me. At one point I got a 45 degree change, and at another point only saw 5.
So again my question would be... what should I expect to be seeing for time to heat that volume and temp change in relation to flow?
I have an HLT I’m using as a holding vessel with the RIMS to heat strike and sparge water. 25 gallon vessel, tap water is 45 degrees.
I ran a test run on my system and while I wasn’t measuring flow rate precisely, I had the valve throttled down low enough that any more would be closed... and I was only seeing a 30 degree jump in the temp in the tube.
It took 2 hours to heat about 20 gallons from 45 to 165 this way.
I’m suspicious that it’s my crappy Fotek SSRs that may be limiting me. At one point I got a 45 degree change, and at another point only saw 5.
So again my question would be... what should I expect to be seeing for time to heat that volume and temp change in relation to flow?