Temperature Control Equipment

[johnc66]

Yeah Push, that system rocks.. The creation steps on your site are great! Can't wait until I can create my own.

[Harleybrews]

Thanks for the responses guys. I was thinking of this system because its one stop shopping and clean from that respect. I am all in favor of a brewers workshop. I went thru that building my HERMS systems and specically the control panel.


I was just curious if anyone used this or similar set ups and their experiences. Pro/Cons? I was thinking of useing this in the winters for lager primary fermentations. It's to cold in garage for primary and to warm on the basement side.

Push, that is one sweet looking panel. Great work!

[Speyedr]

Speyder, it comes with a 2 meter (?) probe but you can buy longer ones. It is NOT water-proof (ask me how I know).

OK, you got the one with the probe. The one in your link says the Probe is sold separately but I also found the one with it. Thinking about this for my new Freezer/Fermenator pair, coming soon...


And SWEEEET PANEL man.

Rob

[Techie101]

Soooooo... to control a heat source in my fermentation chamber I could use this item?

http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/product_view.asp?sku=9352000&pfx=EW

...And that would be all I would need?

[Push Eject]

Soooooo... to control a heat source in my fermentation chamber I could use this item?

http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/product_view.asp?sku=9352000&pfx=EW

...And that would be all I would need?

It depends on the heat source, Techie... think of that control as an automatic light switch that turns on when you tell it to.

So anything you could switch on like that would be controllable. A lamp, a heater a fermwrap, a freezer a fridge, etc...

Still, you would need an extension cord of appropriate amperage to splice the control into or you would hard wire it into a box or panel.

Make sense? If not, just say so and I will lay it out better...

Push Eject

[Techie101]

Yeah, I think I got it. I would be running a small space heater, or more likely, a heat light with this with some small AC fans to circulate the heat around the fermentation box. During the summer to cool I've got a small ~$99 window A/C unit that has it's own temp control.

I'm wanting to set my fermentation box up in the basement and it goes from 40f in the winter to +75f in the summer. I could get a Johnson Cont. thing, but I just think some bright and shiney LEDs telling me what temp it is inside my box would be schweeeeet.

Work in progress:

[Captain Kangabrew]

Harley,

I'm looking to build a fermentation fridge that will also cool in the summer and warm in the winter. I plan to get one of these:

http://morebeer.com/product.html?product_id=16664

and one of these:

http://morebeer.com/product.html?product_id=16674

But first I need to save for another cheap fridge or freezer.

[J.Brew]

Fancy stuff guys, I just use a small heating pad in my fermentation chamber, a freezer with an anolog temperature controller, and let the two battle it out for temperature conrol. Am I ghetto??