jwbeard
Well-Known Member
So we bought an all-copper convoluted CFC from Midwest Brewing Supplies, and are getting dreadful performance from it. Even at a trickle from the kettle, with the valve barely open, we're hard-pressed to get 72 degrees (much less the low 60s that all the CFC threads seem to report). Hose is on full, and the runoff feels cold (implying incomplete thermal transfer). Turning down the hose raises the temperature, turning up the wort does too (I thought maybe it was flowing too slowly to properly take advantage of the convolution).
Hose-in is connected at the bottom of the CFC next to the wort-out; hose-out is at the top next to the wort-in.
Today we even put my old immersion cooler inline into a bucket of ice with the runoff going to the CFC. It got us another degree or two but no appreciable increase...
I'm worried about DMS, since it's taking 90 minutes to empty a 10 gallon batch (ridiculous).
Flow rate is deceptive above... Looks like its actually doing something interesting. It's not.
Please, tell me I'm being an idiot and am missing something obvious... This is ridiculous.
Hose-in is connected at the bottom of the CFC next to the wort-out; hose-out is at the top next to the wort-in.
Today we even put my old immersion cooler inline into a bucket of ice with the runoff going to the CFC. It got us another degree or two but no appreciable increase...
I'm worried about DMS, since it's taking 90 minutes to empty a 10 gallon batch (ridiculous).
Flow rate is deceptive above... Looks like its actually doing something interesting. It's not.
Please, tell me I'm being an idiot and am missing something obvious... This is ridiculous.