There's an amazing difference between South Florida and Northern Florida, even more if you live on the Panhandle in Pensacola like I do.
Though it only lasts a few weeks, it is not uncommon for temps to to get down into the teens. Last year, we saw temps down to 18 degrees at my house. My attached garage got down to 38 degrees at that point.
An article in Florida Today stated,
I was thinking in the same direction as the OP. I'm moving my brewing activities from my garage to my work shed in the back yard. I have no heating or air conditioning in that building so freezing temps in our short winter were on my mind. After finally finding a chest freezer on Craigslist.org I wanted to address my temp controls. I ended up purchasing a Control Products TC-9102D-HV dual stage temp controller for $60 on Amazon.com (free shipping with Amazon Prime.)
Putting it all together was fairly easy. I used a spare power strip I had and scavenged the wire from it. I ran to Home Depot and purchased:
steel electrical box: 050169006702, $2.04
wire nuts: 781789732121, $2.69
face plate: 050169008645 , $0.62
15A Outlet: 078477151426, $0.59
box spacer: 051411916411, $0.92
romex connectors: 051411205119, $1.54
The subtotal was $8.40 for all the parts.
Wiring the unit up was pretty easy, the documentation comes with a wiring diagram that did not need a basic understanding of a schematic to understand. I separated one of the bridge pieces on the 15A outlet so that each receptacle was independent.
Though it only lasts a few weeks, it is not uncommon for temps to to get down into the teens. Last year, we saw temps down to 18 degrees at my house. My attached garage got down to 38 degrees at that point.
An article in Florida Today stated,
I was thinking in the same direction as the OP. I'm moving my brewing activities from my garage to my work shed in the back yard. I have no heating or air conditioning in that building so freezing temps in our short winter were on my mind. After finally finding a chest freezer on Craigslist.org I wanted to address my temp controls. I ended up purchasing a Control Products TC-9102D-HV dual stage temp controller for $60 on Amazon.com (free shipping with Amazon Prime.)
Putting it all together was fairly easy. I used a spare power strip I had and scavenged the wire from it. I ran to Home Depot and purchased:
steel electrical box: 050169006702, $2.04
wire nuts: 781789732121, $2.69
face plate: 050169008645 , $0.62
15A Outlet: 078477151426, $0.59
box spacer: 051411916411, $0.92
romex connectors: 051411205119, $1.54
The subtotal was $8.40 for all the parts.
Wiring the unit up was pretty easy, the documentation comes with a wiring diagram that did not need a basic understanding of a schematic to understand. I separated one of the bridge pieces on the 15A outlet so that each receptacle was independent.
