Have a question regarding Thermoelectric coolers as water tank for SS FTS system

[GJOCONNELL]

Hi Guys,

Working on developing a setup to run to SS Brewtech FTSS coolers sharing one cooler for chilled/heated water. Right now I am using a small cooler that I run the connections too and fill with ice/ice packs twice a day.

Was looking at Thermoelectric coolers and wanted to know if it could cool the water enough to keep fermenter temps for two cooling loops @ 67.

I figured someone on this board must have tried this setup to move away from the ice blocks. right now I am just using one Cooling loop on a brew bucket but wanted to get a second cooling loop up and running this weekend. I guess I could try to create more ice blocks but a nice automated solution would be ideal.

Link to the cooling loop: http://www.ssbrewtech.com/collections/ftss/products/ftss-temp-control-for-7-gallon-bucket-chronical

I am just using a small Igloo cooler. Running out of space for ice blocks! Also using freezer packs but it is time consuming to change it out twice a day.

 

[BorderBrewer]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=329448

 

[GJOCONNELL]

holy hell.....my setup is sort of different than that. I am using the FTSS for the pump on/off and they set to a certain temp. My question is a cooling bucket for the water so I can avoid using ice/ice blocks. Basically looking for something to keep the water cool enough to regular temp. to 67/68.

 

[ickmund]

Sorry for the hi-jack, but I have a small question on your current setup. Does it work well, if you disregard the manual changing of ice?

I'm considering getting a chronical, and have an under-used keezer that should fit a 7-8G bucket with water without any issue. I keep it around 45F atm, which I reckon should be low enough for everything but the cold crash...

 

[GJOCONNELL]

Sorry for the hi-jack, but I have a small question on your current setup. Does it work well, if you disregard the manual changing of ice?

I'm considering getting a chronical, and have an under-used keezer that should fit a 7-8G bucket with water without any issue. I keep it around 45F atm, which I reckon should be low enough for everything but the cold crash...

So far it works shockingly well. The temp isn't straying more than 1 degree from 67 and it has been over 100 degrees ambient temp for a couple days and my wife parks her car in the garage so it spikes up for a couple hours.

I am not having to change the ice as much now that it has cooled down a little bit (high of 88) and the brew bucket is in the garage which has no windows.

Overall very happy just want something to cool the water enough to hold the temp @ 67. I am planning on adding a second brew bucket so it will be interesting to see how much more ice will be needed.

I have a thermoelectric cooler on order that I am hoping will minimize ice pack usage (plan on dropping a big ice pack in with cool water and hoping the thermoelectric can make the ice pack last for days)

 

[Morrey]

So far it works shockingly well. The temp isn't straying more than 1 degree from 67 and it has been over 100 degrees ambient temp for a couple days and my wife parks her car in the garage so it spikes up for a couple hours.

I am not having to change the ice as much now that it has cooled down a little bit (high of 88) and the brew bucket is in the garage which has no windows.

Overall very happy just want something to cool the water enough to hold the temp @ 67. I am planning on adding a second brew bucket so it will be interesting to see how much more ice will be needed.

I have a thermoelectric cooler on order that I am hoping will minimize ice pack usage (plan on dropping a big ice pack in with cool water and hoping the thermoelectric can make the ice pack last for days)

Necro this thread.......I saw there is a potential to use an electric cooler on an FTSs cooling system on my Brew Bucket. Ambient temps may run up to 80F so I'd need to have cooling water to keep ale beers around 67F or 50F for lagers. I don't mind adding frozen ice bottles daily but that prevents me from being out of town anytime during fermentation. Was hoping to see if those electric travel coolers would work??