Planning a fermentation chamber picture inside need advice

[erick0619]

So like the title says I want to build a fermentation chamber, I have a small Scotsman compact fridge. with a little modding I will be able to fit a 6 gallon bucket with either a airlock or blow off tube. my only question is how do I go about starting this project any help would be amazing please and thank you

 

[SmokeyMcBong]

temp controller

 

[erick0619]

temp controller

+1

Is it that stc 1000 I keep hearing about? Would you be able to link me to a good guide?

 

[butterpants]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f170/stc-1000-setup-beginners-433985/

I used this one

 

[erick0619]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f170/stc-1000-setup-beginners-433985/



I used this one

Thank you but for some reason it sends me to a blue moon thread

 

[Dolomieu]

For heat you could use flex watt from reptile basics. You can tape it to the walls of the fridge between the molded shelf supports. I use the 4ft of the 12inch tape for two buckets or my 15gal fermenter. Works great. My chamber is in the garage.

 

[BigFloyd]

The STC-1000 is a dual temperature controller. You wire it into a standard 2-plug outlet that you mount in some kind of project box (either homemade or bought at Radio Shack). One (cool) outlet is for the freezer/fridge. If your fermenter chamber is placed where it’s cold (like a garage in winter), you plug some kind of small heater into the warm outlet and then put that heater inside the freezer. Otherwise, just use the cold outlet.

Set the target temp (in Celsius) on the STC-1000. Set the tolerance (default is +/-0.5*C). When the temp (as read by the sensor) climbs 0.5*C above the target, it powers up the cool outlet and keeps it energized until the temp drops to the target and then turns it off. Likewise with the warm outlet if it gets 0.5*C too cool. You tape the sensor on the side of the fermenter and place some kind of insulation like bubble wrap over top of it so that it reads the bucket temp and not the air.


http://www.amazon.com/All-purpose-Temperature-Controller-STC-1000-sensor/dp/B00862G3TQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382149071&sr=8-1&keywords=stc-1000


https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f170/stc-1000-setup-beginners-433985/#post5538096

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/ebay-fish-tank-controller-build-using-wal-mart-parts-261506/


https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/ebay-aquarium-temp-controller-build-163849/

 

[clavalla]

If you removed the plastic on the door, you could probably fit the bucket on the floor so its not teetering on the ledge. On my fridge it was just held on by like 20 screws, took them off and rescrewed the weather stripping back on and it holds its temps like a champ. The foam behind my door was hard though, so if yours wasnt you might have to fashion a cover.

I also build an STC-1000 in an evening watching the above posted video and one other one, I put a mini ceramic heater in it for heat, the heater sits on the back ledge just fine. I'm starting to think it gets it too warm too fast in there though, so by the time the bucket gets up to temp its like 80 degrees ambient air and then the cooling kicks in and i'm going to be swinging back and forth on temps a lot. I will need to do a test run with a bucket of water and monitor it, the next step would be the heating tape as mentioned above as well.

 

[erick0619]

Sorry for the absence but thank you all for the help I feel pretty confident about this now

 

[carlitos]

This is what I did with my mini fridge hope it helps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZNXd8nJFY&feature=youtube_gdata_player