Saturday, January 3, 2009

Heater Hacking

Early on New Year's Eve, Shawn and I spent some time prototyping a heater for our Climate Controlled Fermentation Chamber (also known as the Coke Fridge).

We need the chamber to hold a specific temperature, so Shawn's idea is to hook up an auto-thermostat to the existing cooling compressor as well as a heating element. This will allow us to simply set the desired temperature and the system will do the rest regardless of the temperature of the basement.

The heating test went well, except we found out one important fact: thermostats designed for household HVAC systems are not responsive enough for this application. Shawn is looking for a substitute.

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