Does artificial light skunk beer as well?
I'm thinking about going to the BCS. How do you like it?
Nomadtribe said:What is the bcs? I have limited, very limited electrical skills and would like to use a dual stage thermo for heating and cooling in my uninsulated garage this winter. What is my best option for a thermo? It will go in a 15 cft chestie. I was thinking about a small spaxe htr. Thanks to all.
What is the bcs? I have limited, very limited electrical skills and would like to use a dual stage thermo for heating and cooling in my uninsulated garage this winter. What is my best option for a thermo? It will go in a 15 cft chestie. I was thinking about a small spaxe htr. Thanks to all.
You have this completely backwards. A bulb covered in aluminum foil would *only* give off infrared. Which is totally fine... just clarifying the science.DrJerryrigger said:I'd recommend (as someone said) covering the bulb in Al foil. This way it won't give off infrared which would heat things closer to it, but would more just heat the air.
ChuckO said:The BCS-460 and BCS-462 are controllers with multiple outputs that can be either on/off, proportional or PID controlled. They have multiple temperature sensor inputs as well as on/off inputs. They are great for controlling a complete brewing system for heat, pumps and valves.
Check out http://www.embeddedcontrolconcepts.com/ for details.
I use one for my brewery with two outputs and one temperature input reserved for the fermentation chamber.
jeepinjeepin said:I feel sure that is possible. Aren't you supposed to be able to network the BCS and watch/adjust remotely? If that is possible all the hard work has been done for you.
Interesting.
A bit topic
...but this might be ideal for a concept I've been working on. I want to be able to do something like the following... I understand if you don't think it's the best way, but there's a damn good reason:
Let's say I'm using a blog or a simple webpage, and regularly updating it with temperatures. I would basically want the BCS to change the setpoint to my main temperature. In addition, I would provide future temperatures to change the setpoint to at specified times... but these future temperatures would be more of a "failsafe" approximation, just in case I either don't update it by those specific points in time, there are problems connecting to the blog, etc - ideally, these "future" temperatures would never have to be used.
Now, obviously, it's just not built to interpret outside websites. So this is what I'm wondering. If I standardized the way I posted temperatures and times, could I somehow get the BCS to basically access/refresh the website every 5 minutes (or whatever interval), parse the relevant information, and accordingly change its setpoint as well as set up the "failsafe" future temps so that it could continue to change its setpoint if, for whatever reason, it doesn't receive updated instructions by the specified time?
I feel sure that is possible. Aren't you supposed to be able to network the BCS and watch/adjust remotely? If that is possible all the hard work has been done for you.
I live in Florida and it gets cold about 2 months out of a year. I want to put a Ferm chamber in the garage. How do you keep a chest freezer warm when the temp drops? I mostly brew Ales. Thanks.....
I live in Georgia and I just did the myself with a freezer and a temperature controller. I used this one:
Ranco ETC-1110000
Try that on for size.
-Shawn
Ok, so in Northern MI temps get low, for example if it is consistently 20 degrees outside, my garage's ambient is not going to be much higher. Will I be able to regulate ale temps into the upper 60s?
I saw the whole thing about living in FL and didn't register that he wanted to keep it warmer.
In the few months that it did get cold, why couldn't he unplug the freezer all together and use the single stage controller to operate a shop light inside the freezer? It might be kind of a pain, but since he really only needs a warmer environment two months out of the year, that might be a better option. That way the ambient temperature of the garage (I would think no cooler than 50-60 degrees) could help with the regulation of the temperature.
Just a thought.
Three "hardiness" zones exist. The warmest is South Florida, but includes Tampa, Melbourne and Orlando. Low temperatures range from 30 to 40 °F (-1 to 4 °C). Next is Central and North Florida with the above exclusions and includes Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Pensacola. Low temperatures range from 20 to 30 °F (-7 to -1 °C). The coolest is a relatively small area in northern Florida including Tallahassee. Low temperatures range from 10 to 20 °F (-12 to -7 °C).
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