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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 00:11:58 -0800 (PST)
From: James McLean <james.mcl...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Any Sparkies in HackerSpace?
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Folks,

I'm building a semi-automated home-brewery at the moment, the hot liquor 
tank and RIMS tube will both have 2400w 240v elements controlled with 
SSR's, pumps are all 240v, and the input will need to be 32 amp single 
phase as both elements will be running at the same time. 

Naturally, this will all need to be certified and/or checked by a sparky as 
it's not exactly the kind of thing that can be DIY'd without risk (or even 
legally). I could try pot-luck and call some local sparkies from the paper, 
but i'd rather find someone who 'gets' it and understands 'hacking' (for 
lack of a better term in this case).

Is anyone here a qualified sparky and can perform the installation of the 
32amp point into the house (new house, has 3 phase) and certify the work 
done on the 240v side of the control systems? Payment by regular means, or 
beer ;)

For geek interest, the home brewery will be controlled with a BeagleBone 
SBC using software i've written in C++, and the software will be Open 
Source (GPL). BeagleBone will be running Debian or Ubuntu, to keep as much 
OSS in the system as possible. The beer recipes are all, effectively, open 
source, too ;)

I've been blogging a little of it on www.vortex.id.au (shameless plug) 
along with some of my other homebrewing adventures if anyone is interested.

Cheers

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Folks,<div><br></div><div>I'm building a semi-automated home-brewery at the=
 moment, the hot liquor tank and RIMS tube will both have 2400w 240v elemen=
ts controlled with SSR's, pumps are all 240v, and the input will need to be=
 32 amp single phase as both elements will be running at the same time.&nbs=
p;</div><div><br></div><div>Naturally, this will all need to be certified a=
nd/or checked by a sparky as it's not exactly the kind of thing that can be=
 DIY'd without risk (or even legally). I could try pot-luck and call some l=
ocal sparkies from the paper, but i'd rather find someone who 'gets' it and=
 understands 'hacking' (for lack of a better term in this case).</div><div>=
<br></div><div>Is anyone here a qualified sparky and can perform the instal=
lation of the 32amp point into the house (new house, has 3 phase) and certi=
fy the work done on the 240v side of the control systems? Payment by regula=
r means, or beer ;)</div><div><br></div><div>For geek interest, the home br=
ewery will be controlled with a BeagleBone SBC using software i've written =
in C++, and the software will be Open Source (GPL). BeagleBone will be runn=
ing Debian or Ubuntu, to keep as much OSS in the system as possible. The be=
er recipes are all, effectively, open source, too ;)<br></div><div><br></di=
v><div>I've been blogging a little of it on www.vortex.id.au (shameless plu=
g) along with some of my other homebrewing adventures if anyone is interest=
ed.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div>
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