My motorized ball valves arrived today. I bought a spare as suggested. What a long time it took, plus the post office nearly screwed it all up (long story).
I am fortunate enough to not require heating. I'm in FL, and only a couple nights per year usually does it drop into below freezing temps during the night for a couple hours. On rare occasions for longer than this. However, my man cave/ brew cave is temp controlled (to a degree) on its own zone in my home AC/Heating setup. That said, the doors are poorly insulated and its tough to keep the temps below 75 in the summer with the AC on. Ambient temp if the zone is disabled in usually in the low 80's in the summer. In the winter and spring it is perfect for ale fermentation however, with an occasional noonish AC usage. I don't imagine I will be wanting or needing heating ability, as most of the year I will be using this for fermenting, conditioning and lagering, well, lager beers.
Going to be ordering the rest of the parts hopefully very soon (est cost approx 2k, not counting what I've already bought, ANY of the PEX tubing, tools, fittings, or crimps, or the stand, being built by a friend at cost)
How many of you have already ordered the custom coils from Stainless Brewing? I am concerned I'm going to royally screw up the specs. Seems there are enough of us we could just tell them "we want the same way as packet for his plastic conical setup".
TD