Setting up a chest freezer...

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Permalink Reply by Adrian Tayler on April 14, 2010 at 6:53pm

Thanks Rev, you are right about the taps mate. soon enough..

Permalink Reply by Patrick on April 14, 2010 at 1:19pm

Sorry to hijack, but does anyone know if you can independently temp control each compartment in a fridge/freezer? It would be cool to have the fridge part as a kegerator and use the freezer part for temp-controlled fermentation... Trying to explain to the accountant that I need a fridge AND a chest freezer is proving troublesome.

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Permalink Reply by Reviled on April 14, 2010 at 1:35pm

Try it and see maybe? Id say temp control the freezer part and see what temps the fridge part get up to??

I remember reading that the one compartment actually draws cold air from the other department to work, so if you temp control one area, the other stops functioning as it should... But sadly I dont think you would be able to have completely accurate temp control in both compartments afaik

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Permalink Reply by James P on April 14, 2010 at 2:54pm

My two fridge / freezers run of the same compressor, with the cold air from the freezer being used to cool the fridge space also, so technically no I couldn't, but with the help of a heat pad I was able to get more consistency.

Nowadays I have a separate fermentation chambers as it's easier!

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Permalink Reply by denimglen on April 14, 2010 at 4:04pm

In my unit the the freezer is only cooling when the fridge part is and the thermostat runs off the fridge part.

If you can only get one fridge or freezer - how about the son of a fermentation chiller.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick on April 14, 2010 at 4:19pm

I will just get seperate units, but not at the same time. Kegging is more important to me at the moment than lagering, I am loving the ales at the moment so once I have a kegerator set up I can look at lagering gear. Cheers!

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