I bought a kegging system! Any advice?

[Jsmith82]

How does this set up compare to the corney keg thing? I'm a complete noob to kegging and for this price I think I would like to try it out.

Factor in your shipping costs and it was just at 180.00, definitely a worthy investment.

Asked earlier in the thread, as for a "kegerator", I do have an old beer fridge in my brew-cave that I use to lager and cold crash beers, store hops, etc:

Come fall it tends to be a full house in there but the keg fits perfectly and the fridge holds right about 36-38 degrees - Topher, using the brewheads calculator link you posted it looks like I'm right with you guys with a suggested constant PSI of 11-12.

As for the washer suggestion on the screw connections, I was planning on using plumbers tape - would a rubber grommit / washer be better in this case or would either suffice?

Again, lots of great input here guys and I do appreciate the little tips and hints, come next Friday in the simplest terms I'm planning on the following - please let me know if I'm missing any steps:

- clean and sanitize everything, rack my beer
- hook up everything, hit the keg at 30psi for an hour plus
- after confirming we are without leaks, pull the gas line off the keg, purge, reconnect and set the PSI to my suggested serving pressure of 11-12, purge, leave it be

Is there a calculator out there you guys use that can distinguish proper carbonation for beer types using a keg? For instance, the 120 I'm going to run with, this is a huge beer with a massive OG, finished at 1.014. Would I need to take anything different into consideration when force carbonating this than I would if I brewed up a simple 5% hefe?