fermentednonsense
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Your setup is similar to mine... I also have the td4 the Rex c100 (which is being replaced soon) and the sestos timer...
And I also got a little carried away cutting the holes for the pids.
I was recently schooled about copper coil and the fact that the hvac stuff we buy at home depot and can easily bend is not the same stuff they use to make commercially sold chillers... the stuff at home depot has other metals apparently added for insulating properties and the make it more playable.... the walls are thicker and it also doesn't transfer heat as well...60' x 3/8" herms coil made from my home depot clearance copper. Grand total of $28
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I was recently schooled about copper coil and the fact that the hvac stuff we buy at home depot and can easily bend is not the same stuff they use to make commercially sold chillers... the stuff at home depot has other metals apparently added for insulating properties and the make it more playable.... the walls are thicker and it also doesn't transfer heat as well...
I will have to do a bit more research but what I was told makes sense. And the guy who was telling me about it was the son of the owner of a large home brew store who has worked there most of his life.
That's surprising. I built a cfc out of the same stuff a while back, and was able to get my wort down to 48*F by using a pond pump to circulate ice water.
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