TheFlyingBeer
Well-Known Member
Hi all, it's been a while.
I have been working on ways to gradually improve my beers and just this past week have finished putting together a stirplate for yeast starters. I am an electrical engineer by schooling and am pretty competent around circuits and microcontrollers so my question is this:
What are the communities thoughts on controlling the temperature of my yeast starters?
So I have this peltier based USB beverage cooler/warmer laying around that was gifted to me quite a while ago.
I have taken it apart and the device couldn't be more simple. Controlling it wouldn't take much.
I figure it would be really easy for me to implement a simple temperature control system into my existing stirplate. Is it worth the effort? For now, I plan on keeping my yeast starters at whatever ambient my apartment is currently sitting at.
A MCU would read the temperature from a temp probe of some kind and regulate the current through the peltier to cool or warm the yeast starter to keep it at an ideal profile. Thoughts?
I have been working on ways to gradually improve my beers and just this past week have finished putting together a stirplate for yeast starters. I am an electrical engineer by schooling and am pretty competent around circuits and microcontrollers so my question is this:
What are the communities thoughts on controlling the temperature of my yeast starters?
So I have this peltier based USB beverage cooler/warmer laying around that was gifted to me quite a while ago.
I have taken it apart and the device couldn't be more simple. Controlling it wouldn't take much.
I figure it would be really easy for me to implement a simple temperature control system into my existing stirplate. Is it worth the effort? For now, I plan on keeping my yeast starters at whatever ambient my apartment is currently sitting at.
A MCU would read the temperature from a temp probe of some kind and regulate the current through the peltier to cool or warm the yeast starter to keep it at an ideal profile. Thoughts?