I have two ~14 cubic foot Frigidaire upright frost-free freezers that I want to turn into fermentation chambers. Cooling is obviously in their wheelhouse, but I was reading and it turns out that part of being frost-free is the incorporation of a couple hundred watt heater by the cooling coils to prevent ice build up/etc. This got me wondering if I could perhaps wire in a temp controller (like the ITC-1000 or STC-1000) to cool the chamber with the compressor and heat the chamber with the built-in defrost heater?
I was wondering if anyone had experience doing something similar? Right now, I have a ITC308/50watt reptile heating cord for one of the chambers, but don't have anything for the second one - so this would be an interesting project/possibility.
I will be getting pictures of the wiring diagrams for each freezer once I get home which will hopefully inform as to how the compressor/defrost heater/other internals are wired and could tell me if this is feasible/possible.
I was wondering if anyone had experience doing something similar? Right now, I have a ITC308/50watt reptile heating cord for one of the chambers, but don't have anything for the second one - so this would be an interesting project/possibility.
I will be getting pictures of the wiring diagrams for each freezer once I get home which will hopefully inform as to how the compressor/defrost heater/other internals are wired and could tell me if this is feasible/possible.