BrewZilla PPSU Sight Glass Upgrade - See how much liquid is in your boiler easily!
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
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BrewZilla 100l Kit -
Note: I made a mistake in this video and said PPSU was good to 280C but actually it's 180C. Sorry about that!
0:00- Sight glass options available
0:30 - glass VS polycarbonate sight glass
1:00 - The benefits of PPSU (polyphenylsulphone)
2:29 - The issue with other sight glass upgrades.
3:47 - How to do the upgrade yourself on your BrewZilla brewery
12:17 - Installing the graduation sticker to sight glass
15:15 - Conclusions, problem shooting using the sight glass - Навчання та стиль
You should definitely make it a standard component. It is something I've been missing in my Gen 4 Brewzilla.
Yes I think we are getting to the point with a number of other upgrades where we need to look at a BrewZilla Gen 4.1
Not needed. Leave it out and keep the price low.
Great option. Looking forward to seeing it available in the states.
Absolutely. We will get them over to the states later this year.
Definitely include this or offer the option to have fitted. Very nice!
We agree!
This would be great as an included component. Also it would be great as a plug and play replacement for us that aren't all that diy type of person.
Yes that is a fair point. The only tricky part is really cutting the tube to the right length so this is something we could pre-cut for customers. Do you think that would help?
@@KegLand for me, I'd rather buy a tube with the right length, then cutting it myself. always afraid I'm going to mess it up 😄
Same 🤣 im the least handy guy you'll meet. I want a sight glass but even as simple is it looks, wont trust myself to do it right lol@martinlenk6117
@@KegLand Hate to say this, but I kind of lost the excitement of this product when I had to do the cutting to size myself. You could probably have sizes for the products you sell, and an option for a longer versatile one.
100% would love to see this included standard on a BrewZilla.
Will be introduced, I reckon
yup would love to see it on the new Brewzilla gen 4 as standard and also it would be very!!! nice to see a updated controller that has a touch screen. cheers 🍻
This is something we would have to look into. The touch screen would increase the cost quite a bit and the only other thing is when you have wet fingers they are not really fantastic.
Just having it as an option would be nice, if somebody would light one
Nice addition, and I would prefer to see it as a standard feature. That aside having pre-cut tubs that are the correct length with the sticker applied already is something I would kick in a bit more to have.
Would have loved to have had this on my Gen 4. Difficult to see the liquid level in the kettle when the malt pipe is in or even when it's in the raised position.
I've also thought about building a scale under the Brewzilla to measure the liquid.
I must be missing something as I don't understand the purpose. When mashing in you can directly look at the graduations to see the volume and pre-boil or during the boil your volume is up around 100L so the sight glass being only up to 80L would be pointless.
Great simple product!!! Is this available for the boil extension recirculation arm as well?
Now that we have the tool to extrude this diameter it's relatively simple to make the extender too. We will look into the viability of this now.
Yer would have loved to have this as standard, it was fine until I put the jacket but with the jacket on and the malt pipe in there is no way to tell volume
Yup! This should be standard! Heck, I wish you had posted this 2 weeks ago as I just purchased 3 of the old versions just so I wouldn't be brewerless next time I broke one. I've had two of the old ones crack on my now. I also have the older version 65L Brewzilla where the cam lock spins...
Are you based in Australia. Please contact our customer service staff and even if your old polycarbonate sight glass is out of warranty we will sort you out with some type of upgrade solution. I wish we had the PPSU earlier but in the past polycarbonate was our only option.
No, I’m in the US. It would a lot for you all to get me out this new version. I’ll keep an eye out for it to appear on morebeer though and see about picking one up when it lands. I appreciate the offer!
Finally, I have been waiting for an option like this.
How long till this is being sold by the US distributors, such as morebeer
I think this will be over in America in about 3 months.
@@KegLand Any updates??
how this is not stock setup for all brewing kettles :(
Does the kit come with different stickers for the different sized system? Surely they won't have the same spacing by volumetric measure
We have different kits on the website and each different kit has a different sticker. So you need to make sure you purchase the correct kit for the particular brewery size.
Yes, make it a standard. Any idea how to get this to Thailand for my gen 4, my home brew shop doesn't carry it.
Based on the feedback it seems like most customers would like this to be standard.
If you want to extend the malt pipe and the base cylinder, can you use a longer section of the sight glass? The issue would then be securing the cam lock on the top end. Will the boiler extensions be upgraded to cater for this?
you can also secure the longer PPSU sight glass using the saddle that we also used to use. At the moment the saddle is not listed as a spare part but if you contact our customer service team they can supply this.
Any idea when it´s going to be available in europe or via aliexpress?
As we do not have any electrical approvals on this part it should be available in Europe quite soon. Probably in the next 3 months.
Would love to see the standard on the brewzilla.
When will the sight glass be available in the US?
Same question.
Yes we are gong to make this standard.
Will this fit the BZ 3.1.1 35L. It should definately come as standard on gen4.
Yes it will still fit the BZ 3.1.1. You just have to use the stainless saddle to secure the PPSU tube rather than the top of the tube being secured using the camlock.
Make it as an optional upgrade would be good.
Would this sight glass work with the BZ 311 65L as well ?
Yes it's compatible with all the previous models of BZ.
Could ship it with a few markings already measured out for the different BZ models
The sticker is easier to apply and also we wanted to make the kit compatible with all the BZ models including the Gen 2, 3 and 4 models. .
@@KegLand i mean for the length and where to cut exactly
I wonder how difficult it would be to retrofit this to a Grainfather G30.
I have not really looked to closely at the Grainfather so it's difficult to say. It probably would work but you would not require the elbow at the bottom as the tube would connect to the pump.
@@KegLand what's the O.D. of the tube?
What can you with that sticker if your inner markings are way off to make sure that you get the right level. That has been the most annoying part of my gen 3 since day 1
The first of the Gen 3 units did have graduations that were a little off. We did change the manufacturing process in the Gen 3.1.1 and later models so the graduations should be withing about +/- 2%.
@@KegLand thanks for the reply. I have the 3.1.1 and it’s a little worse for me. It slightly improved for me when I added another heating unit with a triclamp below the bottom grate. The 27l mark is 7 gallons for me. Can’t wait for this sight glass to be available in the US.
when is it availalbe on aliexpress?
Add a suggestion to the RAPT GitLab please
I hope you can bring this upgrade accessory to China asap and ensure that the stainless steel tube G4 can adapt to upgrade it.
If you are based in China we do have an office in China that can help you out. www.kegland.cn
are you selling these in the UK?
www.kegland.com.au/distributor
It's best that you contact our UK distributors. We only just released this product so it will take some time for it to get over to the UK but if you contact our UK distributors they should be able to give you a more precise time when this will arrive.
Any reason this doesn’t come as standard!? I’ve got a 65L and now just purchased a 100L biggest complaint is not being able to see how many liters after sparge. Realise you have to make money but feel like from gen3 to gen4 you corrected a lot of things but dropped the ball right here….
We will be releasing a new Gen 4.1 model soon and if we get a good response to this video then we will probably make it standard in the 4.1 BrewZilla release. Up until now the PPSU tube did not exist which is the only reason why we have not done this in the past. It's a great plastic but it's not very common so all tooling to extrude needs to be done custom for us.
Love the constant mods, but I'll pass on this one. I like the stainless steel and the only time i need to read the volume is when the mash basket is out and the markings on the inside are visible. How about a LoDO mash cap next?
Yes if you are happy to lift the malt pipe it's not that difficult to see the graduations on the side wall.
You should definitely make it a standard component.
Yes I think we will do this and release a new Gen 4.1 model with this as standard.
Just bought a new gen 4 65L.
First time firing it up to test it and clean it, was a failure.
The valve when throttled, leaks all over the place due to the ball packing nut/sight glass interface not having proper sealant and o-ring installed. If you remove this packing nut/sight glass interface nut with a hex key and look at this part, it has an oring groove cut into the body and lines up with the smooth bore where it screws into the valve body. This problem needs addressed. I’m sure it’s not your fault. Probably your manufacturer of the valve. Valve was completely taken apart and cleaned up. Oring installed into valve. That problem fixed. The cam lock gasket is not thick enough for a good seal. Any back pressure from cleaning heads on the recirculating arm causes a leak. Bottom sight glass fitting should have a valve on it, incase the tube gets broken or fails during a boil. Just like any proper sight glass has for serviceability. You guys are headed for a wreck. I hope customer support is better than what I received on the kegerator I bought from you guys.
If you have any issues at all with our products, contact customer service. These defintiely don't leak when installed properly - should be two o-rings at each end
If only you had an couple of european distributors(who have your stuff in store), most have only a few part and that's it.
This is something we are working on at the moment. We are trying to bring on more European distributors at the moment. I hope we can change this for you in the near future.
@@KegLand that would be awesome, I've a lot of friends that went for other more expensive equipements because of the difficulty to get it
Hey, I love watching your videos but maybe consider a different backdrop? I know the all white background looks great but it’s very hard on the eyes for a long form video, especially on a TV. I’m mainly talking about the intro and outro. Something to consider. Cheers fellas! 🍻
Thanks for that. We will look into this. We can also turn the brightness down too so this is another option.
PPSU or Polyphenylsulfone has no melting point. It has an amorphous nature,
Yes you are correct this is one of the reasons why the impact strength is so good. Sorry did I say it melted? That might have been a mistake if I used that term.
This is not upgrade this is kegland foult must be corrected for free, I bay brewzilla gen 4 whit this foult....
Pair with Bluetooth. Set the Chamber to use the Pill as the Temp Probe. See real time data on the Chamber. And telemetry oin the portal at whatever intervals you have set. It is the COntrol Sensor when setup like this
@@KegLand you're kidding, line the digits, first make high-quality manual control, there's no timing function in manual control at the moment, are you testing your 4g zilas in real ???