Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hi Guys,

I have a two terminal 2400w element I need wired up.

I’ve a bit of electrical experience and I’m planning to have the wiring checked over by a sparky.

My plan is to wire neutral and live to the terminals and then secure earth to the casing via the earth nut.

I will then seal it up with heat shrink.

Any other tips?

You will generally find everyone is reluctant to offer electrical advice because if it goes wrong people often die. Get your sparky to double check everything you do. I would suggest not heat shrinking anything until after he is happy with what will be under the shrinking mate.

Wellsy wrote:You will generally find everyone is reluctant to offer electrical advice because if it goes wrong people often die. Get your sparky to double check everything you do. I would suggest not heat shrinking anything until after he is happy with what will be under the shrinking mate.

Yeah I thought that might be the case.

Anyone know of a friendly sparky near Coburg Melbourne?

Advice........crimp your lead end with ring terminal decent quality not 50c per 100 ebay ones. Supacheap will do.
Screw terminals down tight so they cant move or touch. Earth body as you said. Check your earth using continuity test. Make sure there is good connection and continuity to boiler while empty...take to sparky get him to sign off. If its tagged then you may still get insurance in worst case scenario....

bluc wrote:Advice........crimp your lead end with ring terminal decent quality not 50c per 100 ebay ones. Supacheap will do.
Screw terminals down tight so they cant move or touch. Earth body as you said. Check your earth using continuity test. Make sure there is good connection and continuity to boiler while empty...take to sparky get him to sign off. If its tagged then you may still get insurance in worst case scenario....

What he said!! :handgestures-thumbupleft: