I've been working on this system for a year now, and without fail I miss my mash in temp by 2-4 degrees, every single time. I'm starting to get seriously frustrated as shit with this system.
I boil water in my HLT, run it through my heat exchanger, into my MLT and let the insulated walls warm up while I weigh out grain etc. I dump the water, wait about 10mins for the temp to stabilize, then go to BeerSmith and add all the temperatures into my mash to give my my strike temp. Without fail I miss it by 2 degrees almost every time. I've tried adjusting for heat loss in the hoses from the previous brew. So if I am under by a degree on the last brew I'll up the HLT by a degree to compensate which always throws the fucken temp off again. On top of all of that, the control panel for the MLT never reads the proper temp when the mash is in there. Today it's reading 129F, but when I stick a temp guage directly in the mash it reads 152F (aiming for 148F this morning FML).
I'm ready to bash this fucken thing in with a sledge hammer.
I boil water in my HLT, run it through my heat exchanger, into my MLT and let the insulated walls warm up while I weigh out grain etc. I dump the water, wait about 10mins for the temp to stabilize, then go to BeerSmith and add all the temperatures into my mash to give my my strike temp. Without fail I miss it by 2 degrees almost every time. I've tried adjusting for heat loss in the hoses from the previous brew. So if I am under by a degree on the last brew I'll up the HLT by a degree to compensate which always throws the fucken temp off again. On top of all of that, the control panel for the MLT never reads the proper temp when the mash is in there. Today it's reading 129F, but when I stick a temp guage directly in the mash it reads 152F (aiming for 148F this morning FML).
I'm ready to bash this fucken thing in with a sledge hammer.
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