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My water is under pressure so it carbonates. The side effect of putting something under pressure is that it cools it. It’s how air conditioner compressors work. Expanding them raises their temperature. It’s how heat pumps work. Im not sure how much any of that comes into play with a 47.5psi co2...

So I just went and tested the temps. After thawing it out yesterday and recoiling for a day. I’m at 34.5 degrees straight from the keg, and 38.1 degrees at the tap. 3.6 degrees seems like a big drop in a short time, but I think part of that is pressure helps chill things, so I drew a sample from...

#1 thanks! #2 I’ve had some health challenges that have motivated me in my quest for clean water I enjoy. This seltzer system helps me drink a couple extra quarts/day.

It is a smaller pipe inside a larger pipe. The cold air and beverage lines run through the smaller pipe and then the air returns in the larger pipe. You can see my build thread here: My seltzer keezer build and yes, the air circulates 24/7.

The line is 15 feet. I have an inner run of 1.5” flexible pvc carrying the drink lines and the chilled air runninginside a 2.5”rigid PVC pipe as an air return. The whole thing is insulated on top of this. This seems to be keeping things chilled. I’ll watch it for now. Put in a second fan, and if...

I have a fan that blows cold air up a pvc pipe to keep the beverage lines chilled on their way tothe kitchen, andthat moves some air around pretty well, but I could add a second small fan pretty easily. I’ll do it since I have it. Thanks for the tip.

This is good to know. Since I’m just doing water and seltzer in this freezer, I have just 2 kegs total in a 7cu ft. I was thinking of adding a third for additional thermal mass to make it run more efficiently, and if I do, I’ll raise the inkbird a little first and then lower it slowly.

After only a few weeks of seltzer on tap, dialed to my personal preferences, it was amazing how annoying my favorite canned seltzer was as a backup.

And sure enough, it has melted and the seltzer runs free! Thanks for all the help!

I figured I was safe as I have a couple thermometers that all read between 35-37 when I tested the water that came out at the keg after the first week of chilling things. I’ll see what happens, but I’d be surprised by a blockage since I thoroughly cleaned all the parts before installing and the...

Well, I pulled a post off a spare keg I have, depressurized, swapped the post, and still no luck. Why? Because @Nate R nailed it I think. Freezing? I opened the keg, checked to make sure the tube was on the right side (it was) and saw just a little ice floating on the surface of the water...

Freezer is above freezing. It’s a chest freezer with an inkbird. A quart of water holds the probe. The chilled still water is flowing fine, but the seltzer is not. No sign of freezing anywhere. I double checked the connections. Gray has thegas line going to the post marked IN, the seltzer feed...

Those caps are how they arrived from keg factory. I did not disassemble them. I have a spare ball lock coupler with a threaded push fit (all duotight) a piece of Eva barrier with a T fitting with a pressure gauge on one outlet and a ball valve on the other. the gray coupler is the co2 in, the...

Hoping someone here can steer me in the right direction. I built a kegerator for doing continuous seltzer, and I sent chilled still water from it as well. Got everything dialed in, and it was working great. I loved it. (Full build thread in soda sun forum). It’s based on a corney keg feeding...

Lessons learned: Don’t insulate the collar right to the top, you then have to cut some out for the inside of the lid. Don’t glue every joint on the rigid pvc. I’m so glad I didn’t. After my first attempt, I found one of the evabarrier lines had been cut on the copper tube and sprung a leak...