So Ive been reading through a number of threads and there is a real healthy and constructive Aircon/chest freezer rivalry going on and I was interested whether anyone has actually used a Chest Freezer as their glycol chiller or whether it always comes back to how little BTU's they actually have.
Im starting up a 2bbl brewery and dont want to have to fork out a ton of money for a proper glycol chiller as its a single point of failure and super expensive for a chiller capable of running 8 zones+cost of plumbing, whereas chest freezers are cheap, readily available and one per fermenter reduces the single point of failure.
I cant do aircons because of increased ambient temps caused by the fans will interfere with the already increased ambient temps (tropics) and a limitation of free airspace ventilation.
So - has anyone actually successfully done a chest freezer glycol chiller?
Im starting up a 2bbl brewery and dont want to have to fork out a ton of money for a proper glycol chiller as its a single point of failure and super expensive for a chiller capable of running 8 zones+cost of plumbing, whereas chest freezers are cheap, readily available and one per fermenter reduces the single point of failure.
I cant do aircons because of increased ambient temps caused by the fans will interfere with the already increased ambient temps (tropics) and a limitation of free airspace ventilation.
So - has anyone actually successfully done a chest freezer glycol chiller?