STC 1000

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fisherman

Re: STC 1000

Post by fisherman » Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:20 pm

I have found one on e-bay they have sold over 1000 and are branded Elitech and STC 1000 . I cant help to ask can the STC 1000 be wired in direct from the fridge and heater . Everyone seems to use blocks and wire tails . is there a reason for this am i missing something important. Am i in danger to wire the two terminals to blue heat and cool then the two brown wires to there respective places and the feed wire from the 13 amp socket to the in terminals and put the earths all into a block. My garage is detachted so i wont burn down. I could do with a new garage.

fisherman

Re: STC 1000

Post by fisherman » Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:16 pm

Sorry to be to descriptive I over cooked it. I mean fridge to cooling brown and blue and tube heater to heating brown and blue . Feed from 13 amp plug to power in .And boxed earths.

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Re: STC 1000

Post by Fil » Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:45 pm

fisherman wrote:Sorry to be to descriptive I over cooked it. I mean fridge to cooling brown and blue and tube heater to heating brown and blue . Feed from 13 amp plug to power in .And boxed earths.

the stc has
2 x probe terminals - connect the sensor
2 x power in terminals provide live and neutral from a power in lead/source (no earth)
2 x cooling relay terminals and
2 x heating relay terminals.

connect earth and neutral for both you fridge and heater dirrectly to the power in earth and neutral.
that is earth to earth and neutral to neutral NOT earth to neutral ;)

feed live from the power in to one side of each of the cooling and heating relays

connect the other side of the cooling relay to the live/brown feed for the fridge

connect the other side of the heating relat to the live/brown wire for your heating.

Done - a leggo brick makes it easy

dont attempt to secure more than a single wire in the stc1000 terminals imho they are not upto the job. it wouldnt be safe

3 x leggo connector strips for a quid in the £shop round here!! spend pennies to make it a 5min wirring job, without it it will be frustrating and bound to fail..
ist update for months n months..
Fermnting: not a lot..
Conditioning: nowt
Maturing: Challenger smash, and a kit lager
Drinking: dry one minikeg left in the store
Coming Soon Lots planned for the near future nowt for the immediate :(

fisherman

Re: STC 1000

Post by fisherman » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:23 am

Many thanks Fil and all of you lads for being so helpfull. I shall order my STC 1000 in the morning. Plus 2 X 25kg sacks of Lager malt and some Munich. HAPPY DAYS =D>

Steve B

Re: STC 1000

Post by Steve B » Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:05 pm

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009 ... UTF8&psc=1

Arrived yesterday and is an Elitech ST1000. NOT the one that Ditch shot up. Pretty good for 12.50 delivered!! :-)

Steve B

Re: STC 1000

Post by Steve B » Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:06 pm

Now down to 10.80!!!!

fisherman

Re: STC 1000

Post by fisherman » Sun Aug 17, 2014 1:43 pm

Thanks everybody my new Brewfridge is up and running and i cant wait for my bulk order of malt and hops to arrive. I am looking forward to seeing how it performs it looks great. Happy Brewing =D>

bluezephyr

Re: STC 1000

Post by bluezephyr » Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:39 pm

The house fridge thermostat buggered up, lucky to gave a spare STC 1000 knocking about for a temporary solution until we get a new one

fisherman

Re: STC 1000

Post by fisherman » Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:25 pm

Well ive brewed my first 3 X 10 gallon brews using my Brewfridge with amazing results I am so pleased with the beer. I have also changed my malt selection to Lager base malt with Munich and Vienna and a tiny amount of Caragold or Caramalt. I now use Magnum as a base hop pellet in all my brews and a lowish AA hop for the 15 min additions.Thanks to everyone who helped me with the wiring of the fridge. I will never be without one thats for sure. Happy Brewing

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