Bucket heater for HLT

[brahn]

When I was looking at some sites regarding extra-long mashes I ran across someone who uses a bucket heater for their HLT. They plug it into a timer so it's hot when they get up in the am on brewday. Something like this:

http://www.usahardware.com/inet/shop/it ... n/742g.htm

I tend to run into a few bottlenecks on my brewdays because I only have one burner and this might be an easy way to circumvent that. It sounds a lot like the homebuilt heatsticks only it's UL listed and less likely that I'll burn my house down.

Anybody have any experience with something like this? I'm pretty tempted to get one and try it out. Oh, I'd use it in an SS kettle and not a bucket, btw.

[backyard brewer]

Even though it says it will boil water in a 5G bucket, it also says it's only 100 watts. That can't be true. One of the two is a misprint. People with electric breweries are complaining about getting a boil with 2250 watts @ 220VAC

Get another burner.

[brahn]

It's 1000W, not 100W. I wouldn't actually need (or want) it to boil the water.