Integrated water editor
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:20 pm
I can pretty much handle all the water issues I need to handle using the water editor in BTP. However, it's super-clunky. Unless I'm missing something, this is treated more or less as a complete bolt-on to the system. I cannot even save a water profile to my regular database, instead it saves as an external file somewhere.
What I want to do is say:
Here's my water source. I am / am not modifying it by RO / Carbon filtration.
Here's a second source of water (some purchased stuff like DI water)
Here's the salts I'm adding to my mash water.
Here's my sparge water adjustments.
And have all that save in the overall recipe view. My initial UI instinct is to drag "san francisco water" into the "mash in" step on the Schedule view. I tried dragging Gypsum into the recipe in general - none of that worked. Instead, I opened a separate water editor (ANOTHER MODAL INTERACTION.....) which was hidden under the "recipe" window.
As far as I can tell, the water editor doesn't synch up with my schedule either- I tell the water editor I'm using 10000 gallons of SF water for this recipe, despite it being a 5 gallon match with an 8.33 gallon total water addition, and it goes along fine and miscalculates all the ppm of all my minerals because I'm adding 4g of gypsum to its 10000 gallons of water. It should definitely pick up the actual water amounts from the schedule.
At this point, John Palmer's RA excel spreadsheet is actually more useful than the BTP water editor.
What I want to do is say:
Here's my water source. I am / am not modifying it by RO / Carbon filtration.
Here's a second source of water (some purchased stuff like DI water)
Here's the salts I'm adding to my mash water.
Here's my sparge water adjustments.
And have all that save in the overall recipe view. My initial UI instinct is to drag "san francisco water" into the "mash in" step on the Schedule view. I tried dragging Gypsum into the recipe in general - none of that worked. Instead, I opened a separate water editor (ANOTHER MODAL INTERACTION.....) which was hidden under the "recipe" window.
As far as I can tell, the water editor doesn't synch up with my schedule either- I tell the water editor I'm using 10000 gallons of SF water for this recipe, despite it being a 5 gallon match with an 8.33 gallon total water addition, and it goes along fine and miscalculates all the ppm of all my minerals because I'm adding 4g of gypsum to its 10000 gallons of water. It should definitely pick up the actual water amounts from the schedule.
At this point, John Palmer's RA excel spreadsheet is actually more useful than the BTP water editor.