New build for fermentation control
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 6:35 am
Hello,
I'm brand spankin' new and I'm trying to figure out if this is the solution I'm looking for. Currently I have 2 14 gal conicals running off simple 2 stage controllers from morebeer. It works, but as I'm building out my new system I want to log data temps. I'm only looking for fermentation control, I'm not an electric brewer and I have no use for automated valves.
My new build consists of a walk-in cold room custom built for my garage using a Coolbot and window AC unit. It has a 6x8 footprint and 9 taps off of it. Sharing a common wall I built two insulated fermentation chamber rooms, one for each conical. Initially I was going to treat it like a refrigerator and pull cold air from the main room but then decided it would be too inefficient so I decided to wrap the upper portion of my conicals with copper tubing, insulate it and then push glycol from a reservoir using simple sump pumps.
Ideally I'd like a simple setup that can control both heating and cooling of the conicals, log the temps and have 3 readouts showing cold room temp, and set point and actual temp of each conical.
I understand the BCS cannot run the heater/sump pumps, so I need a relay of some sort to turn those on.
I can do basic household wiring and I've wired up several motors for grain mills. I'm not an electrician by any means, but I can figure just about anything out.
I'm brand spankin' new and I'm trying to figure out if this is the solution I'm looking for. Currently I have 2 14 gal conicals running off simple 2 stage controllers from morebeer. It works, but as I'm building out my new system I want to log data temps. I'm only looking for fermentation control, I'm not an electric brewer and I have no use for automated valves.
My new build consists of a walk-in cold room custom built for my garage using a Coolbot and window AC unit. It has a 6x8 footprint and 9 taps off of it. Sharing a common wall I built two insulated fermentation chamber rooms, one for each conical. Initially I was going to treat it like a refrigerator and pull cold air from the main room but then decided it would be too inefficient so I decided to wrap the upper portion of my conicals with copper tubing, insulate it and then push glycol from a reservoir using simple sump pumps.
Ideally I'd like a simple setup that can control both heating and cooling of the conicals, log the temps and have 3 readouts showing cold room temp, and set point and actual temp of each conical.
I understand the BCS cannot run the heater/sump pumps, so I need a relay of some sort to turn those on.
I can do basic household wiring and I've wired up several motors for grain mills. I'm not an electrician by any means, but I can figure just about anything out.