heapyjeepy
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Did you know that water freezes in the winter?! Apparently that minor detail slipped past me this winter when i left water in my system and it froze, breaking/splitting some copper pipes.
I am still working out the kinks in my automated system (valves, pumps, external HERMS) and I'm trying to prevent this from happening again obviously. Ive pitched everything so that the water runs down hill to the drain valve. But my system has a homemade counter flow heat exchanger mounted below the mash tun and is very difficult to empty completely.
I was wondering if Star San or PBW would prevent the residual water inside from freezing. Or if something else would that would be safe to put in my system?
-heapy
Did you know that water freezes in the winter?! Apparently that minor detail slipped past me this winter when i left water in my system and it froze, breaking/splitting some copper pipes.
I am still working out the kinks in my automated system (valves, pumps, external HERMS) and I'm trying to prevent this from happening again obviously. Ive pitched everything so that the water runs down hill to the drain valve. But my system has a homemade counter flow heat exchanger mounted below the mash tun and is very difficult to empty completely.
I was wondering if Star San or PBW would prevent the residual water inside from freezing. Or if something else would that would be safe to put in my system?
-heapy