Tinkering

Today I managed to find some time for the brewery...hooray! I've finally fitted a stainless manifold to the HERMS heat exchanger outlet. I've placed a 75mm long x 3mm wide PT100 sensor in the recirculating runnings flow. I used a 1/2" male to 3mm compression fitting, branched into the flow using a T in-line.

I also managed to fit the PT100 sensors and manifolds to my gasket plate heat exchanger. This means I can now measure the coolant water temperature coming in from the mains, and the cooled wort exiting the GPHE to fv. Using the ball valve on the coolant water inlet I should be able to control the exiting wort temperature fairly well.