Soetmelks_Brew
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- Jun 17, 2012
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Maybe someone can give this tri-fangled device a better name. The chiller is designed on a ribcage chiller and I felt it would look better and most probably work better with the extra coil. I used some .2inch I.D piping a friend gave me, a pipe with a larger I.D would obviously work a lot better.
I chilled 8 gallons wort from 214F to 140F in 3 minutes. I thought that was wow. As I understand the drop to 140F is the most important. So in that range it works fantastically.
After that the drop in temp was 50F every 6 minutes. My water temp was quite warm at 72F so I was unable to cool below that, the flow rate also very low at 0.7gallons per minute. I think I am going to connect a dishwashing pump to the chiller and see what higher flowrate will do.
Used 12.5gallons of water, perfect to use for cleaning.
The overall performance was a little dissapointing @ 37F drop in temperature per minute, but worked wonderfully where it matters most.
Did move the chiller around a lot to encourage flow over the coils.
I chilled 8 gallons wort from 214F to 140F in 3 minutes. I thought that was wow. As I understand the drop to 140F is the most important. So in that range it works fantastically.
After that the drop in temp was 50F every 6 minutes. My water temp was quite warm at 72F so I was unable to cool below that, the flow rate also very low at 0.7gallons per minute. I think I am going to connect a dishwashing pump to the chiller and see what higher flowrate will do.
Used 12.5gallons of water, perfect to use for cleaning.
The overall performance was a little dissapointing @ 37F drop in temperature per minute, but worked wonderfully where it matters most.
Did move the chiller around a lot to encourage flow over the coils.