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I would say 2 main grains and I think 4 specialty ones. I'm not completely unpacked yet

Ok I just got done moving. All my grains are in tubs. The movers lost the labels for the tubs. How do I figure out what is what grain? At least the specialty grains are in smaller tubs.

Out would come the generator.

Yes it's a 4 [plug dryer plug, but I will be tapping into a junction boxin the basement. How do you tell if the breaker on the main panel is GFCI or not?

Do you have to have GFCI? If so, my current plan was to tap into my dryer run which is on the same side of the house as my brewery. That being asid, I highly doubt that I have a GFCI breaker installed in my main panel. If I was to use GFCI do I need to run cable from my panel which is on the...

+5 G British Pale Ale +5 G Blonde 20080

So doyou need a thermocouple on the BK or not? If you are setting percentage of power on the PID I don't see a reason to have a BK thermocouple. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

My understanding is the thermocouple is a feedback to the pid for temp control. If so you can set temp on pid and it will control power to the ssr accordingly. Correct or not?

Maybe I should look at another way to do this. I would like to know temps of both kettles, one for mashing and the other for controlling the Boil. Not sure whether im getting too complex with this or not.

How else can yuo control the BK if you have no temp feedback

Replacing the K Type with 2 RTD isnt cheap, about the same price s another PID. Makes me think about revisiting the Bakatronics PWM system, hell it's manual but if I have to babysit it might as well not throw money away.

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Wouldnt you want the BK regulated as well? Im not sure ai want a BK going full out with a 5500 W element in it an d no control. Is it possible to have 2 probes and use a switch?

I have been studying your drawing. One question I have is how do you get the thermocouple feedback to control the temperature?

I am contemplating switching to electric due to crap weather this year and inabiluity to brew at all. I have seen the setups some people have like the electric brewery, but honestly I cant shell out that amount of money. Can one PID control 2 SSR's at different times (switched). I am no...