Temp control
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:21 am
by rainybrewer
I am about to buy a digital temp controller, and wanted to get some feedback here on what kind to blow the money on, either the Johnson, the Ranco, the Love, or something else I don't know about.
Anyone used both? The Ranco and the Love seem to be a bit cheaper than the Johnson, but I've never played with any of them, so I'm clueless.
In other words, weedback is well appreciated.
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:31 am
by Henning1966
If I had a choice I would go back and get a love the ranco is good but I really like the loves better.
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:35 am
by hotrod38
You've never played with your Johnson? what a shame, you don't know what your missing.
I have two Ranco's that I use.
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:21 am
by bub
Well if you aren't in a great hurry, and don't mind doing just a "little" assembly.... wait a month or two, I have it on VERY GOOD AUTHORITY that a new FREAKING AWESOME temp controller is coming to the market soon... one DEDICATED to homebrewers...
Stay Tuned Gentlemen... and guys.... and girls.... whatever,
BUB
P.S. I even heard it has logging so you can graph your temps!
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:44 pm
by rainybrewer
bub wrote:Well if you aren't in a great hurry, and don't mind doing just a "little" assembly.... wait a month or two, I have it on VERY GOOD AUTHORITY that a new FREAKING AWESOME temp controller is coming to the market soon... one DEDICATED to homebrewers...
Stay Tuned Gentlemen... and guys.... and girls.... whatever,
BUB
P.S. I even heard it has logging so you can graph your temps!
Did you get any cost estimates from said good authority?
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:06 pm
by Brew-boy
Ranco 2-stage for me Heat and cool, gota love homebrewing even if you wear pants.
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:57 pm
by bub
It will probably be in the Johnson to Ranco range with the need to purchase a handfull of hardware store parts ($10 or so).
Pricing isn't final as the design isn't final. It should be able to log at least 30 days (probably longer according to the manufacturer) at a ~10 minute interval... future upgrades (software upgradeable!!) may include the ability to do mash pump control with dataloging in the 5-10 second interval range for 2 hours or so. I can only imagine the freaking sweet graphs and data that you could pull out of these things for your brewbible... er recipe book. From what I'm hearing it should also be able to track on-off cycles of your fridge so you know how often it is turning on etc, should also prevent short cycling... and a whole bunch of other geeky shit I couldn't understand. You know how these circuit people are with all their codeing and whatnot.
I am egerly anticipating mine
BUB
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:15 pm
by hotrod38
That sounds really cool. Hopefully the price isn't to far out there.