Building a fermenter cabinet

pojobrown · Jan 5, 2012

im going to build a cabinet to hold my fermenter's and eq. and i drew something up and wonder if you guys had any suggestions.

it should hold 3 fermenters inside the cabinets and 2 on top it has 2 drawers above the bottom doors. i got the staggered look for easy siphoning

A4J · Jan 5, 2012

dimensions are hard to read. is it going to be temperature controlled?

pojobrown · Jan 5, 2012

No it's going to be in my house so I might put some fans in it

LarryC · Jan 5, 2012

Seems like if you go to the trouble of building something that nice you are short changing yourself if you don't try to get some cooling in there. I would think the temps would go up if you had 3 fermentors going at once...

lumpher · Jan 5, 2012

5 ferms total, it would get very warm in there without temp control

pojobrown · Jan 5, 2012

Would ventilation (like exhaust fans) be enough cooling if not what type of cooling would I need. And each fermenter will be partitioned off so I would think a fan in each one would be enough to keep the hot air out

A4J · Jan 6, 2012

You can do something like the fermoire or son of a fermentation chiller. Both are insulated and have fans.

RM-MN · Jan 6, 2012

pojobrown said:
Would ventilation (like exhaust fans) be enough cooling if not what type of cooling would I need. And each fermenter will be partitioned off so I would think a fan in each one would be enough to keep the hot air out

What will the temperature of the room that chamber will be sitting in? If your room was going to be 60 degrees a big fan might work well but if the room will be 80 you have a problem.

pojobrown · Jan 10, 2012

its about 65 to 70

C-Rider · Jan 11, 2012

lumpher said:
5 ferms total, it would get very warm in there without temp control

I agree, just go buy a chest freezer and build a nice wooden box around it. You need temperature control w/that many fermenters making heat.

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