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I had a similar problem with some 525ss faucets and the less expensive plated shanks. I was only able to find one combination of faucet and shank out of the set whose teeth would mate sufficiently well to allow me to get the faucet far enough onto the shank to make a seal. I should note that the...

Got mine in Alabama, thanks Jeff!

Depends on the current draw required. I am not an electrician but I have seen numerous references that state that for a 240V/30A extension cord, it's acceptable to use 10 gauge cable. 10/3 SJO is what you're looking for. Here's a good thread on this, ironically with the same title as this...

Welcome! I started about this time last year and now have 100 gallons under my belt (literally, you should see my gut :o). You're going to really enjoy this hobby. By the way if you haven't already, you should browse over to http://www.supportsb153.org/write-a-letter and send a...

Hi Bryson, First, thanks for serving. I truly appreciate your sacrifice. In addition to the excellent advice here, there's a homebrew store in Birmingham called Alabrew (www.alabrew.com) that can help you get started. There are also several in the Atlanta area including Brewmaster's...

Wouldn't you be missing the carbonation step? The beer in a carboy is still flat.

I looked at those things too. The application SparkFun shows is a good use but even there he has some trouble with it. (The kegerator on the whole is a tour de force, I love the switches that capture the faucet state.) I was trying to figure out how to get individual weights on the cornies in my...

Money is right - load cells aren't cheap. I was looking into doing something like that and the price went right out the window. Back to the topic of interfacing an Arduino: they have serial I/O and all you have to do is write a little routine to listen to the input and act. scoates has a...

I'm interested in whether the 5 micron string filter actually works. I am assembling a similar equipment setup and I was planning to use the string filter. For some reason I had it in my head that the 1 micron charcoal filter would remove flavor components. If that's not the case I'd like to...

The examples on www.arduino.cc make it easy to learn by progressive editing - pick out a program that does something you can observe, then tweak it a little, see what happens, etc. Just don't try to make it do too much. I went through an overzealous phase with mine where I built lots of...

It's a resistor you use to pull the line high when there's no load. They are used in circuits where you want the line high at all times unless somebody actvely wants to pull it down to 0. In the case of the DS18B20 in parasite mode, you want the DQ line to be high when the controller isn't...

Update: I am able to read as many as 4 DS18B20 sensors in powered mode with this board. (I only have 4 to test with so I can't say if all 8 that are claimed by CAI will work.) Two of these are at the end of 100' of 6 wire telephone cable I bought at Walmart, the wires of which are solid core and...

Distance doesn't affect the reading itself. The DS18B20 is a digital thermometer, so the temp reading is completely handled in the device, and it sends a digital reading back to the controller. The issue I had with distance had to do with the signaling to and from the device from the controller...

Watching with interest. I have a similar plan myself but I'm not too proud to copy.

I'm pretty sure the power for parasite mode is the issue. I have ordered some more DS18B20s and will make up a set of probes to run in powered mode. How many temperature sensors are you running using that 5V power on the humidity sensor power terminal?

Initial tests of my parasite mode DS18B20 probe with this board are not promising. (That's not unexpected, I was skeptical given the way the documentation reads.) First off, it only enumerates the OneWire bus once, at power on. (This is a documented feature, see page 5 of the manual.) So the...

Let me put one more plug in for Derrin's stainless probe ends at www.stirplates.com - those are what I used to enclose the DS18B20 thermometers I built along Yuri_Rage's line of instruction.

This thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/diy-submersible-temperature-probe-26400/ is a good example of what you can do. Yuri's using a different sensor but the approach is the same one I used to make some probes out of DS18B20's.