Recent content by Wobbly

A wealth of info within all of these posts. Interesting reading and much appreciated. Looks like i'm finally done with secondary fermentation, better late than never :)

Thanks guys, appreciate the replies. I'm definitely familiar with brewing as I've been at it since the mid 80's, i'm just really really slow to adopt new ways ;). Thanks again, needed a little confidence booster too know that going to single stage fermentation was the right move.

I'm a little old school and because of that have always used two stage fermentation, on average 5 or so days in a primary fermenter and then two to three weeks in secondary fermenter before bottling or kegging. I have a pale ale on the go and would like to give single stage fermenting a go. It...

No mags for me..

Just wondering if you got things working again, here's hoping your having a cold one!

Well basically you need to jumper out the line side of the cold control to the load side of the cold control. It's simple but you certainly should be confident in making these connections and you need to understand that unless you use the external thermostat to control the temperature, the...

No it doesn't actually bypass it, it is in series with the one on the freezer. If the one on the freezer is bad it could be by-passed and then the external thermostat could be used to control the temp, but first you need to know definitively what the problem is and then you need someone who...

Well at this point I would suspect that either the cold control that is part of the freezer is bad, maybe the "pfft" sound that you heard was the contacts in the cold control arcing? Or maybe like you first suspected the freon is low or the compressor is bad. If it was mine I would...

Is it getting colder inside? Did the "pfft" you heard sound like an electrical arcing or more like pressure escaping? I would also make sure that the cold control (the one that came built on the freezer) is set around the midpoint or colder and then after five or six hours the temperature in...

No problem at all, glad it was helpful :)

Lol...yep, I know that feeling!

Yep I agree with "B.B." Don't use the thermostat and just leave the freezer plugged in normally until you can determine if it is working properly. If it works like a normal freezer when you are not using the thermostat then the problem is your thermostat.

Pretty sure this is what you are looking for. Hope it helps...

No I think most if not all do not, I was thinking more of a refrigerator when I first replied, but that being said if the evap. coils are iced up, defrosting the unit will help. Definitely worth trying before spending money to repair the unit.

Just to be clear you are not resetting anything by unplugging the unit, what it does is to allow the the evaporator coils to de-ice. If it works OK for awhile after being plugged back in and then starts to fail again, you can be fairly confident that the freon level is ok and that the problem...