Timer to heat mash liquor

[Pogierob]

Ok so after doing a little reading over this forum, I have decided to get a timer relay for my BIAB urn as well, so I can stream line the brew day. ( have young kids) so time is sucked out of personal endeavors pretty easily.

If I can have the water to temp when I wake up then I have a chance of making a brew on a regular basis.

I'm going to give GG a call in the morning and get some grain I think.

I just have to get the ball rolling.

[rotten]

Why don't you just set your HLT-BIAB unit on a timer? If it's hooked up to a temp controller or PID (I don't have) even better as it would stop at desired tamp. or just get up in time

[earle]

I set my urn up the night before, add water, set the dial to a degree or so below mash in temp and set a timer to start about an hour before I want to mash in. When I get up in the morning I just need to bring up the temp the last degree or so and mask in. Would work even better if I added an STC-1000 to the set up.

[drsmurto]

I also have a timer on the HLT. Generally brew after work these days so arriving home to hot water allows me to mash in and walk away.

[jello]

Great idea. Not an option for me though. A cost I can't afford at the moment.

[Pogierob]

Hey jello, I'm sure you could squeeze the wallet for this-
http://bit.ly/18qlIAI

[emnpaul]

That is a good buy Rob.

The problem with a lot of the cheap and not so cheap commercially available timers is they only come equipped with a ten amp switching capacity, which will not last all that long running a 20 amp HLT/urn/boiling thing. That ebay timer, linked by Rob, should last indefinitely and is about half the price of my average grain bill.