Alsace
Active Member
I just came by a free chest freezer and I want to set up a fermentation chamber. I know JZ uses a dual stage set-up with a fermwrap-ed carboy inside a chest freezer. I guess I have two questions:
1. Is it really necessary to have both a heating and cooling element at work? Wouldn't it be enough to have a digital temp control on the chest freezer as long as the ambient air temp is higher than my desired temp?
2. If I do go the route of having a heating element and a cooling element in place, would I be better off getting two separate single device controllers, like the johnson a419, or is there an advantage to having one of the Ranco controllers that can run two devices at once?
It seems more versatile to me to have two separate units, but I didn't know if having both in one had more applications that I might want to use later, like setting up a RIMS or something like that.
Thanks!
1. Is it really necessary to have both a heating and cooling element at work? Wouldn't it be enough to have a digital temp control on the chest freezer as long as the ambient air temp is higher than my desired temp?
2. If I do go the route of having a heating element and a cooling element in place, would I be better off getting two separate single device controllers, like the johnson a419, or is there an advantage to having one of the Ranco controllers that can run two devices at once?
It seems more versatile to me to have two separate units, but I didn't know if having both in one had more applications that I might want to use later, like setting up a RIMS or something like that.
Thanks!