sorry guys, another question...
i have a Cornelius Maxi 310 inline chiller, it's chilled the water jacket down to -8C and the compressor is still running... is the thermostat bolloxed?
Inline chillers
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Frothy
inline chiller as in a flash chiller like the pubs use?
If so you realise that the water in the chiller is frozen into a solid block of ice before the thermostat will turn the chiller off, this takes usually about 4 hours or more to achieve. Also take care not to overfill it, I soaked mine but fortunately it dried out ok. Take the overflow bung out and fill until water starts to come out, then replace the bung and turn it on.
Matt
P.S. - Geoff refurbs these things for a living should you need a more informed opinion
http://www.beer-coolers.co.uk/
If so you realise that the water in the chiller is frozen into a solid block of ice before the thermostat will turn the chiller off, this takes usually about 4 hours or more to achieve. Also take care not to overfill it, I soaked mine but fortunately it dried out ok. Take the overflow bung out and fill until water starts to come out, then replace the bung and turn it on.
Matt
P.S. - Geoff refurbs these things for a living should you need a more informed opinion
http://www.beer-coolers.co.uk/
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shish
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shish
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Frothy
Neat - that looks like the temp controller I had my eye on from cole-palmer 
So what temp you looking at setting your cooler at? Like I said mine takes about 4-5hours to generate a a full ice bank but I don't know what temp that actually is chilling to? I recently spoke to Geoff at DTS because mines not been cooling as well as I'd like it to and he recommended leaving it on overnight the night before.
Matt
So what temp you looking at setting your cooler at? Like I said mine takes about 4-5hours to generate a a full ice bank but I don't know what temp that actually is chilling to? I recently spoke to Geoff at DTS because mines not been cooling as well as I'd like it to and he recommended leaving it on overnight the night before.Matt
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shish
thanks guys...
the controller is actually designed for a supermarket display chiller cabinate, it has two probes. One for the thermostat temp and the other for the evaporator temp. It also has two control outputs. The compressor and fan are wired together on the chiller output and the recirc pump on the 'evaporator fan' output
I attached the evap probe to the chiller coils and the stat probe to the beer coils.
having the setpoint at 0C works really well.
But setting it below zero makes no real difference to the water around the beer coils. I've just had it set to -5 for about 2 hours, all that happend was the beer coil temp was 0C and the chiller coils were -9 and iced.
I need to mix in some anti-freeze, which should help as it means the coils wont ice up and should chill the beer coils below freezing.
the controller is actually designed for a supermarket display chiller cabinate, it has two probes. One for the thermostat temp and the other for the evaporator temp. It also has two control outputs. The compressor and fan are wired together on the chiller output and the recirc pump on the 'evaporator fan' output
I attached the evap probe to the chiller coils and the stat probe to the beer coils.
having the setpoint at 0C works really well.
But setting it below zero makes no real difference to the water around the beer coils. I've just had it set to -5 for about 2 hours, all that happend was the beer coil temp was 0C and the chiller coils were -9 and iced.
I need to mix in some anti-freeze, which should help as it means the coils wont ice up and should chill the beer coils below freezing.
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Frothy
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Frothy
Nice Freebie. YEah the agitator just recirculated the water in the water jacket. This jacket should be frozen into ice and the beer simply passes through the stainless coils and is chilled on its way through. The only difference with the xtra cold coolers that have recently risen to fame is that the coils which the beer passes through are large enough to hold the whole pint in the ice. Geoff does spares if you need any. To fill it with water just fill it until the water comes out of the overflow and then replace the overflow bung.
Matt
Matt
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shish
DAAB, the recirc pump will suck in through an impeller built into the white bottom part (just above the 'propeller') it will push it through the pipe that you have labelled outlet and will run back into the tank through (what you have labelled) inlet.
It literally just sucks cold water from the jacket and pumps it through the pipe, it's basically a chilled water supply used for chilled taps and/or chilling the beer lines right to the tap.
The copper coils will be the chiller coils, the beer coils will be stainless steel, there's no pump for the beer
in your case you should have at least one beer in/out and a recirc in/out
shame i didn't take any pics of my coils when i fitted my temp probes :rolleyes:
It literally just sucks cold water from the jacket and pumps it through the pipe, it's basically a chilled water supply used for chilled taps and/or chilling the beer lines right to the tap.
The copper coils will be the chiller coils, the beer coils will be stainless steel, there's no pump for the beer
in your case you should have at least one beer in/out and a recirc in/out
shame i didn't take any pics of my coils when i fitted my temp probes :rolleyes:
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shish
right, added 2 litres of antifreeze to the water jacket and it set it to -5, which it reached no problem... no icing, the condensation on the recirc pipes froze B)
set to -10 and it got down to -9 and then within about 30 seconds it turned into slush (just like a slush puppie drink!)
so i'll stick with -5, i dont think i'm going to need it colder than that!
DAAB, if your chiller has no beer coils then it should still work perfectly as a chiller for lagering, though you will need to rig up a thermostat like i've done.
set to -10 and it got down to -9 and then within about 30 seconds it turned into slush (just like a slush puppie drink!)
so i'll stick with -5, i dont think i'm going to need it colder than that!
DAAB, if your chiller has no beer coils then it should still work perfectly as a chiller for lagering, though you will need to rig up a thermostat like i've done.
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shish
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shish
without the recirc pump the water around the beer coil would warm up, so it keeps the water jacket at an even temperature
with or without the pump the beer would still freeze in the coils if the water jacket is below freezing. Well in fact the 5% or so alcohol in lager should mean it freezes at about -2.
with or without the pump the beer would still freeze in the coils if the water jacket is below freezing. Well in fact the 5% or so alcohol in lager should mean it freezes at about -2.
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shish