I'm super excited to never scorch a a mash I worked my butt of for again. As well as the other benefits on being able to strip on grain. Naturally I have a ton of questions about my build design. My number one concern is safety. I spent a lot of time reading through old threads, and as long as I have a manometer it sounds like my biggest risk is doing something dumb and receiving a steam burn.
I plan on copying one of the manos and installing a 5 PSI PRV on my boiler. Is there anything else as far as design flaws that could lead to disaster?
Here's what I'm working with. From what I've read, it wont be ideal having the plumbing angled down toward the thumper. But as long as it's not a safety issue I'm ok with a bit more dilution I think. Easier than elevating a couple hundred pound boiler and column. 15 gal keg with two 110v elements to generate steam. 2" rise that Tees off. To the right, I want to weld one of my SS caps with coper tubing to a manometer going off to the right. To the left, it necks down to a 3/4" fitting.
I want to weld a short 3/4" tube thru the 2" cap on my 26 gal boiler with fitting on each end. One to attach to the steam generator, one to attach to the steam wand. Forgive my horrible drawing.
A little confused on some stuff I read. It looked like people were trying to design steam wands to agitate the mash, but if distilling heavy on grain mashes it didn't work. That's all I'm trying to do, so should I omit and crazyy circles of SS braid etc and just go from a pipe to a tee?
Should me smaller steam generator with 12-13 gal be enough to safely get through an on grain 26 gal boiler without adding more water?
Should my elements be capable of pushing this through a 4" column? I just did a test run with both elements at full blast and held a bowl of water on the end briefly. It bubbled about as much as you could do with lung power. It was hard to imagine it doing much to my thumper.