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Since I have a few yeast starter people looking at this, I have another quick question. Is it best to leave the starter on the stir plate, "stirring," right up until I am ready to pitch? Or should I take it off and let it settle? I planned on just dumping the whole thing in, and not...

Thanks, brew703. That's good to know. I'll try that next time. It certainly is working. Now, if my fermentation takes off on my English ESB tonight, I can call this new step a success!

It's the Stir Starter brand. These are the specs: A StirStarter stir plate 12 VDC stir motor Low voltage, plug-in wall transformer Measures 6 x 4 x 2 inches Accommodates up to 2000 ml flasks Teflon coated 1" x 5/16" stir bar included "Keeper" magnet also included to keep your stir bar on lock...

This is my first stir plate, and I've never seen one in action, so maybe this is normal. The video is the stir plate on full speed. Just seems like it should be creating more of a vortex at max speed? It took me a long time to get it to spin, as well. Like the magnet in the stir plate wasn't...

Thanks for the input guys. I think I'll try stirring with a sanitized spoon next time, as opposed to swirling the chiller around. If my arms fall off, I'll look into that mixer attachment.

So, you aren't too concerned with the amount of time it takes to go from boil to pitching temperature? Sounds like you let it cool initially pretty slowly, and then are able to ramp it up quickly, once you start the water running through the chiller. There definitely seems to be different...

That thing has enough material to get 6 gallons moving around, huh?

Can you stir the wort without a whirlpool arm? There isn't a lot of room between the side of the keggle, and the chiller.

Hi str1p3s, yea, I grab the top of the chiller, and swirl it around to create a whirlpool. It's a hassle, and it still takes too long to get the temp down to pitching temp (20-30mins). Even then, I only get it to 80F or so, and I give up, and stick it in my ferm chamber, and drop the temp down...

Initially, I was told that stirring an immersion chiller was a bad idea, as it added oxygen to the wort. Ok fine. Then, I read somewhere that it was ok, as the benefits of getting the wort chilled as quickly as possible outweighed the negative effects of the stirring. Ok fine. I've been...

I have the ITC-310T, which works the same way, I believe. I have mine set to 1 on both HD and CD. I have the compressor delay set to 3 minutes. The default on the delay setting out of the box on mine was set to 0, so that needed to be changed, as I also didn't want to short cycle my freezer...

What were you doing for temp control with this beast?

Except I'm not smart enough to copy and paste the picture. What am I doing wrong here? ITC-1000

I'm in

Thanks BlueHemlock. I got this all set up yesterday. I got a little fan, but haven't put it in yet. Just the small heater. Set it to 66F, and taped the probe to the outside of one of the carboys I set in there. It took about an hour to get it to 66F, and it stayed almost right on it all...

Nice. Thanks for the input, guys. I'm pretty excited to put this ferm chamber together!

I don't really want to do any wiring. I just want to plug it into a cellphone wall adapter, and plug that into the wall. No problem, I'd think

Thanks, day tripper. I don't have a place to plug it into a USB, but I guess a little adapter would work fine, right?

Anyone using something like this in a chest freezer fermentation chamber, to move the air around a bit? Or any ferm chamber, for that matter. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009OXMZ3Y/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 The low speed one I wanted is suddenly unavailable. Maybe high speed is better...

I got a 15.7cf chest freezer yesterday, and I am thinking of going this route. Just seems so simple. You put anything in front of it to deflect the heat? You use a fan to move the air around?