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Finally got my wiring done, sporadic nights over a couple of weeks but I got there in the end.

I would recommend to anyone doing this to set enough time aside to do it in one bang :)

There's enough to this system that just when you have your head around it you discover some other little piece of complexity that makes you think really hard about what you're doing.

My timer is different from Kal's one on theelectricbrewery.com so that took a fair amount of thinking and research but in the end it was actually easier.

Now I have to wire a plug into the end of it and test thoroughly, calibrate sensors, etc before mounting it on the brewstand and making some damn beer.

Cheers.

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Comment by Barry on June 11, 2014 at 11:02am

It's alive!

Correctly wired the illuminated switch lamps last night, and got the v/a meter up the right way. All systems go.

Tested the alarm for both the HLT PID and the timer, and tested the mute switch on the timer. Everything working as designed. Stoked.

Comment by Adam Sparks on June 13, 2014 at 3:16pm

Ohhhhhh very nice! Not far away now huh! 

Hey where did you buy the terminal strips for your +/- bus? Locally by any chance?

Comment by Barry on June 13, 2014 at 3:20pm

Alas, no.

Got them here: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1-10-Position-Pole-20-Hole-Screw-Ter...

Cheap as chips, but one arrived broken – the fixing hole at one end snapped off in transit. They were meant to send me a replacement, as well as a replacement switch (got sent an NC block instead of an NO) and they sent the switch but not the bus. It turned out OK to use anyway, but I used big washers on the mounting screws, but as a trade off I had to omit the clear plastic covers. No biggie.

The plastic is pretty shit but the metal/terminal part is all good.

Comment by Adam Sparks on June 13, 2014 at 3:36pm

cheers, hoping to find one locally but I don't think Im searching for the right thing. Is that what you call a common block?

Comment by Barry on June 13, 2014 at 3:39pm

"Terminal strips" or "terminal blocks".

Jaycar have them: http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productResults.asp?MID=1&SSUBID=773&...

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