Monthly Archives: August 2010

Heat sink and peltier module pt 3

Part 3 of the previous heat sink post. To recap….. We have built the aluminium bar into a heat sink with peltiers and heat sinks and fans, now it is time to fit it to our fermentation cabinet. Below you … Continue reading

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Heat sink and peltier module pt2

Part 2 of the previous heat sink post. This time we are taking the aluminium bar from the last step and adding a plastic right angle extrusion to it, that will serve as a bracket to hold the bar onto … Continue reading

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Heat sink and Peltier module pt 1

This is the first post in a series that is gong to be a step by step guide to building your own temperature controlled fermentation cabinet. At this stage we are not going to go into detail of the actual … Continue reading

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Home Brew and Fermentation Temperature Control

I have been busying myself with home brewing of beers, ciders and ginger beers. Home brewing is a great hobby that gives you great control over what you make. Flavours can be tweaked, styles can be modified. On the whole … Continue reading

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Can you relatively simply make a Home Brew Fermentation temperature controller?

Yes, yes you can. In my previous post I outlined what I was hoping to acheive with this project. I have now completed the mark II revision and will soon have some results to taste. The process was reasonably simple … Continue reading

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Fermentation Cabinets, are they worth the effort?

This is an interesting question that I have found myself asking lately. I rant the first test through my cabinet with the following conditions. I used a Coopers ‘kit and kilo’ kit of their Sparkling Ale. It was mixed as … Continue reading

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