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Well here it is, the newest upgrade to my brewery,
a detachable control panel.
Before my control panel was in a metal breaker box mounted on the front in btween the HLT and MT.
Now it is in a waterproof (except through the front panel) plastic sprinkler system box.



The control box stand was built from conduit and galvanived pipe, mostly leftover from wiring the rest of my stand. The control box slides on to two pipes.



I used a 20' heavy duty extension cord that I cut down to what I needed, the black is power and ground.
The colored plugs came from Walmart, $6.50ish for three 6' adapters to plug in several DC adapters into a power strip.
Spliced up and wraped with heat shrink.
All color coded MT asco, HLT asco, pump, and power.
I made it so that when I power up the box by plugging in the black plug, the three plugs that become hot are female,
this will help avoid a little electrocution on my brewday.


The aluminum control panel is epoxied to the box. Some of the wiring is hot glued down cause I'm a little OCD.



The back of the box, two 3/4" pipes slide over the two 1/2" pipes on the stand.



The whole thing swivels 360* for storage or transport.



I also added a gfi outlet.



Next will plumbing and maybe a second pump.

Dude - do you brew in your bedroom?

Awesome.

coloradojay wrote:Dude - do you brew in your bedroom?

Awesome.

Yeah, I just put a box fan on the window sill to pull the fumes out of the room

That's the spare bedroom, dubbed The Beer Room by the wife.
I have to pull it outside every brewday.
We're buying a house in about 6 mos. and one of the must have's is a brewhouse, can't wait.

Reminds me of a conversation with my wife one brewday.
"It smells like a brewery in here." "And your point is?"

triple-oh_six wrote:

You're just using the ground lug strip to separate your wires, right? No chance of the screws piercing the insulation?

Im too drunk to read all that but that looks kickass. Like a bomb... that makes beer.

BrewTa2 wrote:

triple-oh_six wrote:You're just using the ground lug strip to separate your wires, right? No chance of the screws piercing the insulation?

I put slivers of vinyl tubing in between the screws and wires to make sure of that, the screws are not tightened much though.

NikoBrew wrote:Im too drunk to read all that but that looks kickass. Like a bomb... that makes beer.

That's awesome, thanks.