Where is your thermostat probe?

If you use an external thermostat to control a fermentation chamber, where do you put the probe?

Mine's just hanging in mid-air, about 12-15" from the bottom of the freezer, and 6-8" from the side wall. Seems to work fine.

Still on my wish list...

I'm getting another fridge soon for this purpose. Maybe I'll use this thread to tell me where to put it.

In Oakland, I had a fermentation closet and had everything heater, probe & controller mounted on a wall above the fermentors. I was using a small space heater with a fan, did a really nice job even when there were several fermentations going at the same time.

Mine's just hanging in the air...

I have a temperature probe that is related to a temperature controller and a pump and way too much othe junk. BUT... the probe is in a thermo-well that is in the middle of my fermenter.

Nothing fancy, just those stick on aquarium thermometers right at the 3 gallon mark.

On the floor of my chamber inbetween where I would put 2 carboys. I'm not going to be so anal that I may risk infecting a batch just to have the actual wort 2 or 3 dergees cooler when I have the temp of the chamber at 60. Besides if I put it in the wort I run into another problem. With room for 2 carboys I would need 2 thermometers and a way to controll both of them independently of the other.

Mine is suspneded from a cable in the lagering chamber.

Brewpastor said:

I have a temperature probe that is related to a temperature controller and a pump and way too much othe junk. BUT... the probe is in a thermo-well that is in the middle of my fermenter.

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You were the only one I expected to see vote for thermowell. There might be others, but I pretty much KNEW you were in that camp.



-walker

Mine hangs on the left side, just inches from the bottom. I have a thermometer probe in a plastic cup of water sitting on the bottom of the freezer. Works well.

Walker-san said:

You were the only one I expected to see vote for thermowell. There might be others, but I pretty much KNEW you were in that camp.



-walker

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brew Paster I think is the onlyone with a set up that would allow him to do it like that. Besides he dont have to worry about infections . . . He's brewing for God.

Pumbaa said:

brew Paster I think is the onlyone with a set up that would allow him to do it like that. Besides he dont have to worry about infections . . . He's brewing for God.

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This may very well end up in my sig .