slimgid
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I picked up a side busier fridge today to convert to a kegerator/fermentor. I've read through a few threads on this but was hoping to get some input as to my plan. Seems there are a few ways to do this...
The controls are labeled "air balance" which manually opens the damper between the freezer and fresh food side. And "thermostat". My assumption is the thermostat measures temps in the fresh food side and is responsible for cycling the compressor and evap fan which are actually in the freezer side.
This is my plan. Remove the original thermostat and wire in an inkbird controller with the temp probe in the freezer side (now the kegerator side). Set this controller to serving temp (40 ish). Remove the damper and in its place put a computer fan that will blow air from the freezer to the fermentor side controlled by a second inkbird (60-70). The second inkbird will also controll some sort of heating element tbd.
Does this seem like a sound idea to those of you who have done similar such projects?
The controls are labeled "air balance" which manually opens the damper between the freezer and fresh food side. And "thermostat". My assumption is the thermostat measures temps in the fresh food side and is responsible for cycling the compressor and evap fan which are actually in the freezer side.
This is my plan. Remove the original thermostat and wire in an inkbird controller with the temp probe in the freezer side (now the kegerator side). Set this controller to serving temp (40 ish). Remove the damper and in its place put a computer fan that will blow air from the freezer to the fermentor side controlled by a second inkbird (60-70). The second inkbird will also controll some sort of heating element tbd.
Does this seem like a sound idea to those of you who have done similar such projects?