We were able to use a lot of our new equipment. We calibrated our sight glasses (from http://www.brewhardware.com/), dialed in the autosparge and tested the new thermometers.
The site glasses worked well. One did not seal well with the thermometer, but we were able to wrap a few extra rounds of Teflon tape around it and stop the leak.
One of our analog thermometers read too low by 12 degrees and one of the new digitals was DOA (hoping it is only a dead battery).
The autosparge worked well for the re-circulation and for the early parts of the sparging but, eventually, you need to empty the mash tun and this is only accomplished by turning off the filling pump.
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