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More burner questions
I just replaced my hot water heater in my house, the burner, ignition, and thermostat components are all still operational. Has anyone ever used the burner from a water heater for anything?
The only results I found were people using electric elements from water heaters to heat their strike water or maintain mash temps.
What do you use to fuel your water heater?
Relating to FPB's question, most brewing burners are propane, and most gas water heaters are natural gas.
The two are not the same. Propane is much higher pressure, so if your burner is natural gas it would have to be converted.
I was just day dreaming of a tiered brewery in my garage. Using natural gas would be easier for me, saves trips to fill tanks. It's a 40K BTU burner, and from reading other threads, that wouldn't do well for a boil, but maybe mashing or HLT. Anyway, just a pipe dream.
Well if it's a natural gas burner and you're feeling ambitious then you can use it if you tap into your house's NG supply. I have a buddy who has a NG single tier rig and had an outlet piped into his garage. Kinda nice, all he has to do is pop the coupling on and he's ready to go and start up his control panel.. Yeah he's one of those guys who brews by pressing buttons and flipping switches. Then he turns a valve and beer comes out. One thing he says he did notice though when he switched to NG was that it takes longer to heat up water and boil wort.
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