idzy
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Hi Guys,
Was talking to a guy the other day and he mentioned he has a heater in his fridge and has the temperature on it set to 25c or something and it got me thinking...
The STC-1000 has on or off and that's it. By controlling his heater he can avoid a large overshoot as the fridge warms up beyond the fermentation temperature and warms up the fermenting beer.
Just wondering if anyone has done this or something similar. I was thinking that you could control it pretty accurately with 3 STCs:
Wiring diagram would look a little like this:
|- [Hot out] - [STC - Set to 25c] - [Heater Pad/Belt]
[240v outlet] - [STC (set to 19c)] - |
|- Cold out] - [STC - Set to 15c] - [Fridge]
Does this have merit or am I on crack? I have never actually monitored the maximums and minimums of my fermentation temps, but thinking this would avoid large drops when the deep freeze goes into freeze mode pushing the temps down too far or vice versa.
Was talking to a guy the other day and he mentioned he has a heater in his fridge and has the temperature on it set to 25c or something and it got me thinking...
The STC-1000 has on or off and that's it. By controlling his heater he can avoid a large overshoot as the fridge warms up beyond the fermentation temperature and warms up the fermenting beer.
Just wondering if anyone has done this or something similar. I was thinking that you could control it pretty accurately with 3 STCs:
- Maximum external temp (heater belt)
- Minimum external temp (cold fridge)
- Fermentation temp (controlling hot and cold)
Wiring diagram would look a little like this:
|- [Hot out] - [STC - Set to 25c] - [Heater Pad/Belt]
[240v outlet] - [STC (set to 19c)] - |
|- Cold out] - [STC - Set to 15c] - [Fridge]
Does this have merit or am I on crack? I have never actually monitored the maximums and minimums of my fermentation temps, but thinking this would avoid large drops when the deep freeze goes into freeze mode pushing the temps down too far or vice versa.