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 Post subject: Thermometer mount in MLT outlet: help needed
PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:23 am 
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Hi all,

What I'm thinking about doing is mounting a decent-to-good thermometer probe in the outlet from my MLT. I have a 30 gal blichmann pot, which has the nice brewing thermometer mounted, but I've noticed that the wort at the bottom of the pot is easily 5-10 degrees warmer than the thermometer reads (naturally, since I'm doing a direct-fire RIMS). What I'd like is a thermometer I can mount in-line, either attached to the ball valve itself or just something with QDs on both sides so I can hook it into my tubing setup.

What Kal does at the electric brewery is set up a T connector into which he screws the thermal probe. That's all well and good, but he hooks that probe into a programmable control box (which I'm not about to build right now). What I want is something that I can hook up in-line but has its own display. Ideally, I'd just find some kind of self-sealing silicone bung that I can push the probe from my thermapen into whenever I want. Seems like that sort of thing could exist.

Failing that, are there any good all-in-one thermometers that have a NPT collar on their probe, for screwing into a T junction so I can measure the temp of the flowing wort?


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 Post subject: Re: Thermometer mount in MLT outlet: help needed
PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:22 am 
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You could add a 1/2" tee fitting to the end of the ball valve. Then you thread a thermometer with 1/2" male threads into the side of the fitting opposite the ball valve. The third opening of the fitting is where your hose will attach.

Something similar to this pic:
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 Post subject: Re: Thermometer mount in MLT outlet: help needed
PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:27 pm 
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Yeah, that's more or less what I want to do. What I'm looking for is help finding a good thermometer that can mount thusly. I might just move my brewmometer over to that location and get one of those plug thingies for where it's currently mounted.


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 Post subject: Re: Thermometer mount in MLT outlet: help needed
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:47 am 
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Morebeer sells just what you need for that application. http://morebeer.com/view_product/18692/102228/Thermometer_3_Face_x_2%22_Probe


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 Post subject: Re: Thermometer mount in MLT outlet: help needed
PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:07 pm 
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I have a Blichmann and drilled a hole near the top to connect a coupler and a ball valve. I use it to recirc and sparge.

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 Post subject: Re: Thermometer mount in MLT outlet: help needed
PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:57 pm 
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Ryan at MoreBeer pointed me in the right direction with the inline thermometer with quick disconnects.

http://morebeer.com/view_product/11253//Inline_Thermometer_with_Stainless_Quick_Disconnects

I have mine on the outlet of the heat exchanger in my hot liquor tank in my HERMS (B3 calls it Analog SMART). If you are using a pump and quick disconnects, then you can move it around the brew system as needed.

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