BrewLikeAegir
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First I bought a deep freezer, Model #FCM11PHWW.
Then I bought a temperature controller, Inkbird ITC-308.
Did my research on both, didn't really see anything outright that would make me think I wouldn't be able to pull this off. Finally decided to hook it all up on brew day. It's starting to get cold here but it's been warm the past two days, so I hooked my deep freezer up to the temperature controller (I plugged the power cord of the deep freezer into the cooling socket of the temp controller because it was about 80 degrees ambient and I needed it to be at 68 inside) and I set the probe inside the freezer. The deep freezer's green power light did not come on. So, curious, I tried the heating socket (I plugged the power cord of the deep freezer into the heating socket of the temp controller) and the deep freezer turned on--The light inside came on, the green power light was on. So I played with the temperature controller for a second, I set the minimum and maximum temperatures, and I closed the lid and watched it go for a second. The deep freezer started getting colder and colder, blew right past the minimum temperature set. Believe it or not, the freezer was doing what it was designed to do, it started freezing, even thought it was plugged into the heating socket on the temperature controller, even though the minimum temperature was set. So I thought, defective temperature controller right? Maybe the two aren't compatible in some way? What am I missing? I'm not an electrician. I've got beer that needs to be at 68 degrees and my heater in my house has to be on or my family will freeze. I've got a "swamp cooler" set up right now in the meantime. Help. Please.
Then I bought a temperature controller, Inkbird ITC-308.
Did my research on both, didn't really see anything outright that would make me think I wouldn't be able to pull this off. Finally decided to hook it all up on brew day. It's starting to get cold here but it's been warm the past two days, so I hooked my deep freezer up to the temperature controller (I plugged the power cord of the deep freezer into the cooling socket of the temp controller because it was about 80 degrees ambient and I needed it to be at 68 inside) and I set the probe inside the freezer. The deep freezer's green power light did not come on. So, curious, I tried the heating socket (I plugged the power cord of the deep freezer into the heating socket of the temp controller) and the deep freezer turned on--The light inside came on, the green power light was on. So I played with the temperature controller for a second, I set the minimum and maximum temperatures, and I closed the lid and watched it go for a second. The deep freezer started getting colder and colder, blew right past the minimum temperature set. Believe it or not, the freezer was doing what it was designed to do, it started freezing, even thought it was plugged into the heating socket on the temperature controller, even though the minimum temperature was set. So I thought, defective temperature controller right? Maybe the two aren't compatible in some way? What am I missing? I'm not an electrician. I've got beer that needs to be at 68 degrees and my heater in my house has to be on or my family will freeze. I've got a "swamp cooler" set up right now in the meantime. Help. Please.