I have a 5 cu ft freezer that I'm using for a fermentation chamber. It's controlled with an Inkbird with the probe in a thermowell in the fermenter and I also am using a Tilt hydrometer. I've only been doing 5 gallon batches in here so far but in preparation for 10 gallon batches with 2 fermenters, once I add a collar, I tried leaving the heating pad loose to see if it was powerful enough to maintain the temperature for this last batch.
The Inkbird was set to 68F with 1F of variation and I've had no issues with it so far. When I first put the fermenter in and plugged everything back in, the temperature measured by the Tilt shot up to 77F before settling down and being consistent for the next few days. I attributed this to a fluke but then we lost power for 48 hours and when the power had kicked back on, it did the same thing. Any ideas why this would happen or what to do to avoid it when I have the 2 fermenters in there? Because of the insanity after the power outage I didn't get to double check the Inkbird's display temperature while it was spiking but since I pulled the fermenter out, it's been steady around 68.
I just went back and edited that when I put this batch in, the freezer and heating pad had been unplugged so this may be as simple as making sure the temperature is stable before putting something in. But I still wanted to get thoughts if there's somewhere else I should be putting the probe vs the heating pad.
The Inkbird was set to 68F with 1F of variation and I've had no issues with it so far. When I first put the fermenter in and plugged everything back in, the temperature measured by the Tilt shot up to 77F before settling down and being consistent for the next few days. I attributed this to a fluke but then we lost power for 48 hours and when the power had kicked back on, it did the same thing. Any ideas why this would happen or what to do to avoid it when I have the 2 fermenters in there? Because of the insanity after the power outage I didn't get to double check the Inkbird's display temperature while it was spiking but since I pulled the fermenter out, it's been steady around 68.
I just went back and edited that when I put this batch in, the freezer and heating pad had been unplugged so this may be as simple as making sure the temperature is stable before putting something in. But I still wanted to get thoughts if there's somewhere else I should be putting the probe vs the heating pad.