Fired up our DME 7 BBL direct fired gas kettle yesterday for the first time. It has come equipped with the Midco EC300 burner, which is capable of being hooked up to either Nat gas or Propane. We are on propane. Our gas technician hooked up the burner, set the manifold pressure to required 2.1 water column downstream of the honeywell regulator (per Midco's spec) and we fired it up. We measured flue temp just below the barometric damper that is located just above the ekit from the combustion chamber on the kettle. Flue temp was steady at about 450F to 500F (recommended range is 350F to 550F). We managed to lower this flue temp slightly by partially closing the damper than came supplied by DME on the outlet from the kettle's combustion chamber. In short, our readings said everything looked good, and had been hooked up successfully.
There was 400 liters of water in the kettle. Starting temp was 88F. We ran the kettle for two hours, only moving the temperature up to 128F. This seems brutally slow. As it's a weekend, I can't trouble shoot with DME much, so thought I'd throw it out to the forum to see if anyone has any thoughts. Anyone out there using this burner? Maybe on a DME system?
Jeremy White
Owner
Big Spruce Brewing
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
There was 400 liters of water in the kettle. Starting temp was 88F. We ran the kettle for two hours, only moving the temperature up to 128F. This seems brutally slow. As it's a weekend, I can't trouble shoot with DME much, so thought I'd throw it out to the forum to see if anyone has any thoughts. Anyone out there using this burner? Maybe on a DME system?
Jeremy White
Owner
Big Spruce Brewing
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
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