Category Archives: BrewPi

more @brewpi Bank Holiday Musings

I’m sat here idly musing about conditioning beer in corny kegs in my  @brewpi fridge. Since the beer probe can’t get into the keg and have the stabilising mass of the beer around it, the @brewpi tends to oscillate a bit. So the probe needs insulating, at first I thought of magnets embedded in some sort of insulation but these don’t stick very well to stainless steel. Maybe I could come up with a suction cup affair to reliably hold the insulation ? Insulating tape tends to come unstuck or leave  sticky patches,  maybe a big elastic band ?
Maybe the Brewpi needs a 1 probe point control mode either that or I just use the ST1000 for the conditioning fridge.. I think  that I’ll muse some more over a beer from the shed Hell Boy

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@brewpi DIY MKII

I have been Busy in the workshop, remaking the original DIY Brewpi !
It’s now in a similar case to my other BrewPi Cool

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remade the front panel

and made a rats nest on the DIY shield board Surprised

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On this one I also decided to have a power switch and a resettable fuse Big Boss

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here are some inside shots

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LCD with I2C controller

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overview of SSR’s and 5V supply..

Now All I have to do is get my head around some C++ to try and add the I2C display into the Code Confused