LYSON Digital Immersion Heater Ø48 cm

01 · THREE PHASES AND A PROBE

Which is what separates this one from the cheap one

Leave the heater flat out and you get a ring of overheated honey around the spiral while the centre of the drum is still solid. That is why the controller lets you programme three phases of temperature and time: you go up slowly and let the heat spread.

The maker itself warns of something almost no datasheet says: the heater's temperature is not the drum's core temperature. A probe thermometer tells you what is really happening inside.

02 · THE LOWEST THAT WORKS

Decrystallising is always a compromise

Melting crystallised honey means, by definition, heating it. The rule is the lowest temperature that does the job, for the shortest time: above 40 °C honey rises in HMF and loses diastase, and in a drum that takes a day that adds up.

If the honey is going to analysis or to a demanding customer, plan it: better to start two days earlier at a low temperature than to force it in one afternoon. Phase programming exists precisely for that.

03 · Ø48 IN A 200 KG DRUM

And 90 cm of immersion

The spiral measures Ø 48 cm and goes into a standard 200 kg drum with clearance at the sides. Immersion depth reaches 90 cm, which is drum bottom, and overall height of the unit is 110 cm.

The four 375 W elements are laid out in a circle, not concentrated at one point: that is what gives more even heating than a straight rod. All in food-grade stainless steel.

04 · €137 MORE THAN THE OPTIMA

And it is not for the power

The same maker has a Ø 480 mm immersion heater with 1,600 W for about 138 euros less. It has more watts and the same diameter, so the difference is not there.

What you pay for in this one is the three-phase programmable digital controller of the CLASSIC line. Put another way: those 137 euros do not buy heat, they buy the control that stops you overdoing it. If you melt drums of honey you then sell, that is the part that matters.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

There is a specific stand in our range; ask us if your drum needs one.