Makes me wonder if anyone has put a heating element in a conical. You could BIAB, chill then dump the trub.
I'm pretty sure there was a company who was selling an ill-fated version of what you're describing. They had some big quality control/customer service issues. There was a long thread about it on HBT. The conical was jacketed for cooling and IIRC several people burst the jacketing/collapsed the conical with household pressure water. The vendor did not make it clear it was not designed to hold household pressure and would not honor returns from the people that killed their all-in-one conical. I have to assume they went under since the backlash was pretty fierce.
In any case, with all of the new information about trub levels being kind of meaningless, I'm not even going to bother taking it out. Everything that goes in stays in. Well, except hops. I'll be using hop bags.
My initial thought is to use an industrial Peltier cooling system and a dual stage temp controller to manage fermentation temps, although I'm not quite sold on that. Since I'm going to have the coil in the kettle it seems like I should use it, but I may just go traditional with the ferment control. A decent sized, good quality thermoelectric cooler will run several hundred plus the high amp PSU and circulation pump. TBD...
ETA: Nope, still around:
Brew In A Conical:
httpss://brewhaequipment.com/products/biac-all-in-one-brewing-system-package
$3100 for 5 gal system
$4200 for 10 gal system
Edited by JKor, 14 December 2016 - 09:18 AM.