Hang Glider
Beer Drinker
New to posting here, busy on other forum, frequent reader, old brewer.
Okay, I'm thinking about rebuilding my fermentation chamber - currently it's a two cooler system, Johnson controlling the ice and water on one side, carboy and circulating pump on the other. I'm tired of remembering to swap milk-jugs: it's time to move up.
I've read/seen several beautiful projects, most moving air, some cooling with water.
I may as well use the cooling power already present in my kegerator, so I'll park this next to it and pump glycol or water between the two, but should I drop the coolant lines in a water bath or have a fan blowing across them?
I love the dorm-refrigerator set ups, but to me there's no point in spending more on electricity than a fountain pump (and maybe a fan) to achieve my objective.
Any engineer-types out there that want to weigh in on this?
Okay, I'm thinking about rebuilding my fermentation chamber - currently it's a two cooler system, Johnson controlling the ice and water on one side, carboy and circulating pump on the other. I'm tired of remembering to swap milk-jugs: it's time to move up.
I've read/seen several beautiful projects, most moving air, some cooling with water.
I may as well use the cooling power already present in my kegerator, so I'll park this next to it and pump glycol or water between the two, but should I drop the coolant lines in a water bath or have a fan blowing across them?
I love the dorm-refrigerator set ups, but to me there's no point in spending more on electricity than a fountain pump (and maybe a fan) to achieve my objective.
Any engineer-types out there that want to weigh in on this?