alternative? cheap? brewfridge heating

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Fil
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alternative? cheap? brewfridge heating

Post by Fil » Tue Jul 25, 2017 5:41 pm

https://www.banggood.com/100W-12V-60x60 ... s=category

a banner add caught my eye and led me to the above a 12v dc fan with a built in 100w heating element intended for heating an incubator for less than a tenner!!

ok a 100w 12v dc power supply is a bit bigger than the usual £shop phone charger plug used for a fridge fan, but iirc thats less than 5A or 5000ma so most established households with a modicum of cluter should have something suitable somewhere ;) and the heater is wired separately from the fan..

anyway thought it worth sharing at least.. kills 2 birds with a reasonably priced stone perhaps?
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Re: alternative? cheap? brewfridge heating

Post by chris2012 » Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:06 pm

Nice, that looks pretty handy.

I was thinking how would you get it to work with an inkbird controller, but I realised I'm being silly, you'd just plug the 12VDC adapter into the inkbird.

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Re: alternative? cheap? brewfridge heating

Post by Jambo » Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:16 pm

Fil wrote:
ok a 100w 12v dc power supply is a bit bigger than the usual £shop phone charger plug used for a fridge fan, but iirc thats less than 5A or 5000ma so most established households with a modicum of cluter should have something suitable somewhere ;) and the heater is wired separately from the fan..
Nice find, but 100/12 = 8.33A, fairly hefty adaptor required!

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Re: alternative? cheap? brewfridge heating

Post by Fil » Wed Jul 26, 2017 3:22 am

thanks for the correction, tbh i didnt check it and just had that @ 12v 60w was 2.5a for some reason..
ist update for months n months..
Fermnting: not a lot..
Conditioning: nowt
Maturing: Challenger smash, and a kit lager
Drinking: dry one minikeg left in the store
Coming Soon Lots planned for the near future nowt for the immediate :(

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