Recent content by ThreeTaps

The blowoff's only purpose is to give intense amounts of krausen a place to go. Once the most active fermentation is done (less than a week), just put an airlock on instead. That way, you also have part of the cleanup done.

Hey all, Anybody else going to this? Which time slot are you thinking about attending (11-3 or 4-8)? Looking forward to hanging out with some other local homebrewers from the forums and other.

Very nice on your first brew! Welcome to the addiction. I started in August of last year, and now, about $1,200 later, I find myself with a full AG setup and a ferm chamber that can ferment 50 gallons (10 batches) at once. You've got some catching up to do :)

Just for anybody who may be reading this, doing what I did works perfectly. Take a piece of cardboard, affix it to separate the air conditioned air outflow port from the mesh and coils at roughly a 45^ angle, then direct a fan up to the underside of that cardboard (which will then feed all air...

I think I'm talking to myself here. Hah. Just checked on it again, and even though it was frosted up a bit (not as much as before), the ambient temp was at 50^F. Wow! That cardboard ramp sure improved the air flow down to my fermenting wort! So now I upped the high limit threshhold a bit to...

Still getting frost on the coils and mesh. Here's a couple pics of my AC unit. Since I'm not super familiar with the airflow, I'm wondering if the cold air coming out the top gap is being immediately circulated back around and sucked into the coils and mesh. Could that be causing the frost so...

Alright, so I removed the front cover of the A/C unit to maximize airflow to the coils. Then I filled every crack and gap with GreatStuff, so it should be pretty air tight inside. Then I placed 3 DampRid buckets inside the chamber (up on the top shelf, two on ground level). Let's see how this...

Yeah, my coils are frosting up too. This'll be a fun one figuring out what to do. The A/C unit sits on top of the chamber, which has a door cut out, hinged up ward, and resting on the front edge of the A/C unit. The sides of course have insulation board. So, there's not much room to work with...

Damn, just checked it (1 hour after it being on). The temp is down to 62^F, which is good, and means it would have cut off soon, but the device to the left of the compressor was freezing over. I imagine the coils were doing similarly. That's the one drawback from living next to the...

I actually did try bending it out to the back side of the unit first...yeah...didn't work :) BUT, for my last A/C that did have wire leads on the bulb, I extended it which did work.

That worked great, thanks! I simply slid the two hot connector plugs together, plugged the sucker in, and the compressor came on and stayed on. I don't think this will be much of a freezing over issue as long as I don't set my ext temp controller to lower than 62^F and make sure all gaps and...

Here's a couple images of my A/C unit. The metal lead that goes to the front coils connects directly into the box that has two hot leads entering it from the top.

I'm a little confused, or maybe I'm not. Hah. You're saying to just take the hot leads from the A/C temp sensor (thereby cutting the sensor itself off, which is a long metal one) and essentially attach (tape would work) them to the compressor housing? Or do you mean to take the hot leads and...

Hey all, Bought a replacement A/C unit yesterday that's mechanical. It gets my ferm chamber down to 64^F, but no lower. My fermometer is reading 70^F temps this morning, so I want to rewire the thing to keep the compressor on (doesn't really make too much difference in terms of A/C health, as...

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