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So i finally got around to setting up my temperature monitor onto COSM, and got two DS18B20's measuring. One is taped to the side of my 8 gallon ferment bucket, then some maybe 1/4th inch foam is over it and that is taped down.
The thing that concerns me is that the beer seems to be fluctuating as much as it is. It seems way too in sync with the room temperature, where i would expect that because of the thermal mass and the fact its in probably another 5-10g of swamp cooler water that it would be moving a lot less than the ambient temperature.
This is my first time doing this, so im not sure if im just being paranoid, or if i do need to come up with a better way to measure the temperature of the fermenting wort, or insulate it more?...i was under the impression that measuring on the side was almost identical to measuring with a thermowell, from reading other peoples accounts on this forum. Granted i guess it is only moving 1 degree, i guess i just thought that with that much thermal mass it would take longer than 10 minutes of my house's heater being on to move 10+ gallons of water temperature by that much, the wort is nowhere near a heating vent.
On a side note it is interesting to see how accurate my house's thermostat is since you can see the cyclical pattern, its set to 64F to hopefully keep my Belgian Hefe in the mid to upper 60's so its pretty close.
https://cosm.com/feeds/83208
The thing that concerns me is that the beer seems to be fluctuating as much as it is. It seems way too in sync with the room temperature, where i would expect that because of the thermal mass and the fact its in probably another 5-10g of swamp cooler water that it would be moving a lot less than the ambient temperature.
This is my first time doing this, so im not sure if im just being paranoid, or if i do need to come up with a better way to measure the temperature of the fermenting wort, or insulate it more?...i was under the impression that measuring on the side was almost identical to measuring with a thermowell, from reading other peoples accounts on this forum. Granted i guess it is only moving 1 degree, i guess i just thought that with that much thermal mass it would take longer than 10 minutes of my house's heater being on to move 10+ gallons of water temperature by that much, the wort is nowhere near a heating vent.
On a side note it is interesting to see how accurate my house's thermostat is since you can see the cyclical pattern, its set to 64F to hopefully keep my Belgian Hefe in the mid to upper 60's so its pretty close.
https://cosm.com/feeds/83208