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mattd2, Great links and very good reading. Thank You! The positive results are close to what I am hoping for, the negative results are what my thinking/math suggested. My design calls for a highly insulated box (something the positive results seem to suggest is imperative). The negative...

airing, What a GREAT reference! Thank You! If initial testing goes as planned I do plan on building a line driven SMPS for the TEC. I am 99.9% certain that using a "fixed off time" current regulated buck converter with over-voltage sensing will be fairly easy to construct; it is very similar...

airving, Thanks for the info! I am glad you have gone down this path before, and you mentioned something that is a concern: While I have not found "good" specifications on the particular unit I selected as a starting place, I suspect it is designed to remove < 150W of heat (the most...

airving, My plan is to use one of these: Amazon.com: Corsair Cooling Hydro Series All in One High-performance CPU Cooler: Electronics with the radiator on the outside of the cooler and the peltier cooler and heat sink on the inside of the cooler. The "Hot" side of the peltier cooler will be...

muthafuggle, For fermentation I like doing 10-11 gallon batches, hence a 15.5 gallon fermenter. I keg into 1/6th bbl Sankey kegs, so each batch fills two 1/6th bbl kegs. As far as the project goes, the electronics, heat sinks/fans are the same, obviously for a 6 gallon carboy or bucket the...

Shotgunner, I plan to use an ATMega32 for my prototyping. The firmware is in AVR-ASM, so it would be fairly trivial to port the firmware to any of the Arduino's, but I would leave that task to others in an open source project; I do, however, plan to develop the TEC power supply/current...

muthafuggle, Sadly you did not; peltier cooling is roughly 80% less efficient than refrigerant based cooling; however, this does not mean such a device would make your electric meter spin like a top. A worse case scenario would be if the cooler had to run 24/7. Since the max power input to...

I have been playing with an idea using a TEC (ThermoeElectric Cooler) for chilling/heating a fermentation vessel. These little semiconductor devices offer ~85W of cooling/210W of heating at a very low initial cost (< $ 0.10/W) and a high degree of temperature separation from ambient (~60C)...

Northernlad, I am quite familiar with Ozone, I have used it for years for sanitizing my hottub and, more recently, my minnow tank. (I am in the Fishing Tackle Retail Business). It is amazing stuff. I am unsure about the quantity requisit for sanitising brewery equipment, but for a 500...

You guys are great! I am a bit in my cups (yes, I do actually DRINK beer (and it is "football day") so I will stop here, but PLEASE do not think that I hang on most of your words; I hang on EVERY ONE. When I read your posts I find new topics to search for and explore. Thank You. Some of the...

I have done a bit of reading, and I am preparing to do some ordering. Following is what I am currently planning on ordering. PLEASE help me edit this list: Boil Pot ("Keggle"): Have On Hand: 1/2bbl Sanke Keg Propane Burner & LP To Purchase: Thermometer/Site Glass...

The transformation of this thread is quite spectacular, and I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to respond. I was certainly a bit flustered early on; perhaps as much a function of my consumption as any intent on the part of the contributors. I would like to apologize for any...

northernlad, perhaps I was strong in my last post, rest assured it is NOT drama i want, drama is exactly what I do not want. I really just wanted some advice, and I recieved that, and while I am taking it under advisement, it is not what I had hoped for. None of that is what upset me...

Wow, I am soooo glad I could start a thread where politics was the theme. If this forum is about ranting, hating and persecuting then I have obviously made a poor choice, and I am sorry. Honestly, this thread was about a newbie going from consumer to producer, but I can already tell this is a...

I guess stating that I am not interested in the hobby side of brewing touched on a few nerves. I am sorry for that. I understand this is a passion for most here, not about quantity or production. I appreciate that, and, perhaps, brewing will become a hobby, but pursuit of brewing as a hobby...

I have been reading about brewing for several weeks now. I have yet to sterilize, heat, pitch or rack anything, but I have a few questions none-the-less. I have kept beer "On Tap" since the early 80s. I am quite familiar with the dispensing side of beer. I want to add another step to the...

wow. Thank you for the warm welcome:-) I come from an internet background that is not quite so inviting to newbies; but, again, Thank you. With a combined post count of 12,463 I feel fairly certain that you five represent the soul of this forum, and your karma is very good indeed. As far...

Why am I here? Two reasons: 1: You are #1 in google for "home brew forums". Congrats! 2: I am new to home brewing, and am looking for some help. I have read a lot about brewing....there is a lot out there! My interest in this forum is to solicit the opinions of people who have...