Firing up the electric brew kettle with the newly-live control panel!

Brew buddy Scott came over last night to facilitate the last step of bringing the control panel on line, which was literally bringing it on line – connecting it to the main circuit breaker panel. He’s done this before; I haven’t, so I took him up on his gracious offer to step in and wire it up.

With 240 volts from the main, I flipped the switch on the control panel and got a very satisfying green light. *bliss!*

Scott wanted to show me how to hook up the temp sensor on the hot liquor tank and when I started to take it down off the shelf and he said it would work fine up there I said, “Hell with that, I wanna boil some water!” So the first trial run happened last night. I did another trial boil in the brew kettle this morning to confirm that the Number Two Circuit worked and to do an autotune on the little computer that controls the temperature. Yeah. I did that. Right after I got out of the shower. Yeah. I’m that geeked out about it. Well, don’t you have any toys? I’ll bet you do.