<--- Here's the web enabled WRIMS GUI
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Drawing of the system
Why?
My first try at a simple controller for a RIMS heater was a disappointment, so...
Building a RIMS but it's a daunting task what with a pump, false bottom
and other esoteric stuff. This simple and effective RIMS is based primarily
on an appliance you (well, your wife...) already has- a clothes washer!
Just as viewers of Norm's PBS show must do, you too must first endure the dreaded Safety Lecture before commencing with the conversion.
<--- Here's the web enabled WRIMS GUI
As you'll note from the screen capture in the image above, a rich GUI
is provided. The image shows just two of the many forms in the system.
The main form sports a toolbar with easily comprehensible icons for most
functions conforming to the WinDoze 666 GUI spec. Errors and prompts are
annunicated with helpful message boxes such as the one in the lower right
portion of the screen above. The Real Time Data form in the center of the
image features a graph visually indicating mashing progress. Note the response
of the system to the preprogramed mashing schedule and how the terminal
mash-out point is reached within 1 degK of the desired temp. The average
error of on the mash shown is only 0.564 degK. Note also the precision
of the data.
DATA PREAMBLE {STACK 89EA{ {CACHE 453F{ {INTERRUPT VECTOR 0000:463C{
{BEGIN DATA CONSTRUCT
3424 432 43 2 654364D57 83F46 2 5 431 5 45 7657 53 543534 15 756765 666
END DATA CONSTRUCT{
DEFINE {VARIABLE X AS BIG NUMBER{
670E: IF SPARGETEMP > (FUZEQ 45 <--FUZZYPARA 345D %NOR% FUZZYPARA 78E) > SETPOINT THEN 810C
6710: IF RANDOM (X) > RECIRCTEMP THEN GOTO 6723 UNLESS TIMER > RANDOM (X) *3 THEN GOTO 321C
671F: POKE 234E, &H00000001
6721: GOTO 6725
6723: POKE 234E, &H00000000
6725: MESSAGEBOX ("RDWHAHB, your mash is doing fine!", !45324, "Okey-Dokey!", {342F{, DOWHILE)
675A: SOUND BREAKWIND {LOUD{
6783: GOTO 6721
Note the use of OOP techniques such as multilinked, nested GOTO logic constructs
and the prohibition of in-line comments and lower case letters which would
distract from the elegant visual effect of the code. The use of fuzzy logic
is shown in line 670E while the following line demostrates the use of a
sophiscated OOPS function. Audible operator feedback is included on the
next-to-the-last line.
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!
>Does all that fuzzy logic plug up the lint trap after a while?
I don't know- the wife got the WRIMS in the divorce that ensued from converting the washer. <g>
> Will this setup work the same on any brand of washing machine (i.e. Speed >Queen, Maytag, Kenmore)?
Maytags are perferred. According to the ads, the Maytag repairman is bored- letting him fix a WRIMS ought to be an "interesting" job for him.
>Will a wringer type washing machine work?
Actually it's perferred- the wringer is used as a malt mill and dispenses the milled grain directly into the tun.
Next rev. (gotta find a babe with a wringer washer first <g>), I'll
use a recirc heating system similiar to yours (A HERMS) only the HX coil
you have in a HLT will located in the clothes dryer instead.
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>It just would have been better if you had
>not named the HTML file "apr_fool.htm" but "wrims.htm" and let people
>go through it actually thinking it was for real. I bet you could
have
>hooked quite a few people and got them going. You are creative,
but
>seem to lack the "prankster" mentality. B-}
I agree totally- except for the part about the prankster mentality.
Trust me, you don't want to be around me and my coworkers on 4/1!
Recalling your advice about getting sued. <snip>, I figured some
some brewer's wife would sue me or some idiot would actually wire his hot
water heater's relief valve shut...
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>You Ought to be shot dude!
Why, did your wife catch you hacking her washer into a RIMS? <g>
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re: WRIMS
>>The whole thing was self-sanitizing too. Just use the bleach
dispenser thing.
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>...Bad judgement and Miller Lite are a dangerous
>combination. Another reason to really think about the
>WRIMS you posted. Some poor S.O.B. is probably trying
>to explain to a divorce court that he saw it on a
>webpage and figured it would work. The world is full
>of <snipped name> and, unfortunately, they have access to
>Miller Lite.
No lawyers baying at the door yet. Personally, I feel that anyone
that can't see it's a joke would have to be a complete moron and would
have killed him/herself long ago in another "misadventure" with technology.
Darwinism as it were...
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You laugh but I did WRIMS twelve years ago. I was not married yet so
I didn't have possible conflicts with the WIFE 1.0 software. I was a beer
brewing crazy with beer drinking crazy buddies sharing the rent and
emptying my suds as fast as I could brew them. I brewed about 50 kits before
brewing about 50 full mashes. I would temperature boost my Ritchie Brewheat
by drawing off wort and pouring it back up top of the mash. I quickly added
a pump and I was manually controlling the temperature like a RIMS (1985).
Many things "got my goat" about full mash brewing. 1. The mess (thank god
I was not married yet). 2. The inability to repeat a good batch a second
time (tough I kept accurate records of every batch). 3. The time (I'd rather
be sailing and drinking my suds). I was brewing in the kitchen (very large)
on the top of my used 25$ washing machine. This got me thinking, jokingly
at first, but then quite seriously, about converting my washer. I finally
disabled the mixing arm in the tub and used the washer pump to recycle
the wort through a 110V hot water heating element. I used an el-cheapo
hot water heater thermostat (I lit up when I saw the 140-160° temperature
range). I did brew a few batches in the washer but I abandoned because
of the icky sticky leaking mess it made. I also screwed up the washer controller
trying to modify the timing cams. Properly done, I was convinced (and I
still am) that a full barrel mash system can be made from a washing machine.
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>I have come to the conclusion
>that you have put too much emphasis on the GUI interface and not on
the
>GOOEY mess.
Gee, aren't they one and the same?
>I humbly submit the WCRIMS. What's the "C" for pray tel? Clauset of
course.
>Water clauset RIMS!
<Snipped name>, ya really need to publish your invention. I'll bet 99.9% of all homebrewers have a toilet just waiting to be converted. Maybe a tee and a pair of valves in the drain outlet would allow conversion of an existing toilet and still allow normal usage whilst one is not mashing or to readily dispose of failed mashes. When you get the system automated and mashing unattended, you might want to add a warning light so potiential pottie users don't think that the last person using the toilet forgot to flush.
>Drilling through the porcelain is an art. I am at my third bowl now
and I am
>just starting to get hang of it.
Hydrofluoric acid will eat a hole clean through it.
>The porcelain is an
>excellent firewall and it is an electrical insulator as well.
Very good points. Easily to clean also. I was going to suggest
a stainless steel toilet like those used in prisons, but, it's neither
a fire barrier or an electrical insulator.
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> BTW I finally read the WRIMS page and nearly fell off my chair!
You know,
>with the right software, it just might work...
Hey, the GUI has the obligatory cute (but meaningless) clickable icons.
What more could one want <g>
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>Thank you very much for the WRIMS conversion instructions. I think
they
>will be quite useful once I wish to obtain a divorce.
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A real WRIMS! :
>So I've just finished reading about the WRIMS system based on my wife's
>washing machine, only to learn that you were only joking. In
the
>meantime, here I am sitting on the basement floor surrounded by pieces
>of washing machine and the guts of my old '286 computer. Worse,
my wife
>says there's no clean towels in the house, but it makes no difference
>because I'll be moving into the Days Inn down the street until the
>divorce is final.
What luck- the Days Inn likely has one of those big commercial washing
machines!
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>Re your <blush... snipped> WRIMS system;- the spin cycle
of the washing machine
>does in fact make a good large volume centrifuge if as a result of
a
>mis managed mashing you have a very cloudy wort or wish to spin yeast
>slurry down.
>1...Place a couple of wet towels in the bottom of the machine to give
> it a bit of mass to spin,.The towels dampen
out any balance
> irregularities that otherwise seem to always
occur.
>2...Cut a ring of styrofoam to fit in the bottom of the bowl over
the
> towels
>3.. Cut 4 holes in the foam at 90 degree intervals to take the bottom
> of 2lit PET bottles
>4...put solution to spin into the bottles
>5...stand the bottles in the holes in the styrofoam ring
>6...with a stout cord tie the necks of the bottles together so that
> they are canted towards the centre agitator.
>7..another styrofoam ring cut to take the necks of the bottles is
a
> better idea
>8..tell spouse person that her mother rang
>9. during ensuring phone call spin solution down.
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>Mr. Pritchard,
You're obviously trying to correspond with my Dad who is internet impaired. I'm just C.D. - pronounced in red-neck as "seedy".