The SWIMBO is ready to start brewing some yummy stuff.
She is almost as excited as I am. ALMOST.
Neither one of us thought it would be as big of a project as it has turned out to be.
That is exactly what we did. It is hard to see in most pictures, but it is pretty smooth and polished.
It just depends on the direction of light and from where you look from.
Here is a better angle.
Beautiful build!! Just awesome!! I just finished building a very similar styled vertical "dual" fermentation chamber and I'm preparing to install an AC unit. Your build raised a couple of questions:
1. Why pipe in the cold air with ducts as opposed to inserting the whole AC unit? Are the chambers independently controlled? If so, how? Baffle? Fans?
2. Did you bypass the AC thermostat? I am plan on controlling temp by setting my AC to max cold and then using a BCS-460 (SSR) to switch a 110V outlet on/off. Am I missing something? Is compressor reset an issue?
3. Is that a "return" register in one of your pics required? Is it necessary? Seems huge.
4. What is R-value of your insulation? I've installed 5.9R (mylar faced), but I'm worried I might need more. On the other hand my basement rarely gets much above 65°, so I'm thinking that the AC will only rarely be needed during peak fermentation.
5. Any plans for heat?
Truly inspired!!
PLOVE
Gorgeous job. Can only hope my turns out as nice as yours.
1) As you can see, I just didn't have the room to include the unit in the cabinet. I built the cabinets for storage before I decided to use it as a fermenter.
As for control of each chamber, I used tubes with threads on them so I can cap of some of them in random chambers to adjust how much flow each gets. Took some time to adjust to get all 3 areas within 1 degree of each other.
2). I actually used the digital controls from the unit. I just extended the wiring for the control panel and Thermistor. This allows the unit to operate as expected(No hard starts/stops).
3). I needed the return to recirculate the air and to pull the moisture out.
4). I used just 1/2 inch insulating panels with a low rating of around 3. It seems to work good. I also had space issues, so I couldn't go too thick. The compressor only kicks in every 30 minutes or so and only runs about a minute.
5). As far as heat, the lower aquarium control will be for heat. I will either use a lamp in each chamber, or a heat pad.
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