Hi all
I'm fairly new to home brewing. A friend and I have recently put together what we think is a pretty nice gravity fed all grain brewing setup.
My other hobby is building electronic devices... including the temperature controller that we use to maintain ideal fermentation conditions. The device I built first our first couple of brews includes both heating (heat pad under the fermenter) and cooling (unmodified fridge) control.
The unit also includes an SD card to log data so I could monitor Target, Current, and Ambient temperatures... pretty good results... managed to control within .5 degrees C of the target which I was pretty happy with.
For lager brew... I've improved the unit to automatically cool from primary fermentation temperature over a week to a set lower value. Automatically... 19 C for 1 week, cool from 19 C -> 4 C over 1 week, then constant at 4 C.
My question.... if you could imagine a temperature controller that gave you all the features you could imagine.. what would they be? I'm keen to built it !
I'm fairly new to home brewing. A friend and I have recently put together what we think is a pretty nice gravity fed all grain brewing setup.
My other hobby is building electronic devices... including the temperature controller that we use to maintain ideal fermentation conditions. The device I built first our first couple of brews includes both heating (heat pad under the fermenter) and cooling (unmodified fridge) control.
The unit also includes an SD card to log data so I could monitor Target, Current, and Ambient temperatures... pretty good results... managed to control within .5 degrees C of the target which I was pretty happy with.
For lager brew... I've improved the unit to automatically cool from primary fermentation temperature over a week to a set lower value. Automatically... 19 C for 1 week, cool from 19 C -> 4 C over 1 week, then constant at 4 C.
My question.... if you could imagine a temperature controller that gave you all the features you could imagine.. what would they be? I'm keen to built it !