SmokingCrow
Active Member
Hi,
Heard Ranco being quoted and that they're good and seem pricey. The STC-1000 is one I use, and is selling with a temp probe for less than £$10 on the bay.
Be warned there are two versions, 12v and 110/240v. If it's turning a mains powered crock pot on and off, then you need the 110/240v version. It only works in Degrees C celsius; there are only a few set point to convert if your life is imperial.
It's the size of a pack of 20. I found wiring up the plugs a tad confusing, but got there in the end. I should have googled stc-1000 looked at the endless images of how to wire it up.
Most brewers of beers, especially with lagers, convert a working fridge into a brew chamber.
The STC-1000 controls two power outlet plugs, one called heat, and the other cool.
The fridge is plugged into cool, and the heat mat into the heat socket.
The STC-1000 sits outside the fridge, and the probe is in the wort.
The set-temp is controlled on the front of the unit, as is the temperature tolerance and delayed reaction, (this prevents it turning your crock pot on and off rapidly until it explodes or catching fire).
Lets say the set temp is 30, a tolerance of 2 degrees and 60 second delay.
If the temp drops below 28, the unit twiddles it's thumbs for 60 seconds, and turns on the heat pad until it reaches 30 and turns it off.
If the temp goes above 32, 60 second thumb twiddle and it turns on the fridge until it reaches 30 and turns itself off
Now if you have a fermentation space heated with a crock pot, the probe would be near the leaves. The crock pot is plugged into the heat plug and nothing in the cool plug unless you have a need for a cooling device like a fan/extract/fridge. Set the temp, tolerance and the delay and you're off. The crock pot will turn on to reach the set temp and when it does, turn itself off. Eventually the temp drops below the set point, the SCT-1000 waits for your specified time, and applies power to the heat plug and turns on the crock pot again.
Heard Ranco being quoted and that they're good and seem pricey. The STC-1000 is one I use, and is selling with a temp probe for less than £$10 on the bay.
Be warned there are two versions, 12v and 110/240v. If it's turning a mains powered crock pot on and off, then you need the 110/240v version. It only works in Degrees C celsius; there are only a few set point to convert if your life is imperial.
It's the size of a pack of 20. I found wiring up the plugs a tad confusing, but got there in the end. I should have googled stc-1000 looked at the endless images of how to wire it up.
Most brewers of beers, especially with lagers, convert a working fridge into a brew chamber.
The STC-1000 controls two power outlet plugs, one called heat, and the other cool.
The fridge is plugged into cool, and the heat mat into the heat socket.
The STC-1000 sits outside the fridge, and the probe is in the wort.
The set-temp is controlled on the front of the unit, as is the temperature tolerance and delayed reaction, (this prevents it turning your crock pot on and off rapidly until it explodes or catching fire).
Lets say the set temp is 30, a tolerance of 2 degrees and 60 second delay.
If the temp drops below 28, the unit twiddles it's thumbs for 60 seconds, and turns on the heat pad until it reaches 30 and turns it off.
If the temp goes above 32, 60 second thumb twiddle and it turns on the fridge until it reaches 30 and turns itself off
Now if you have a fermentation space heated with a crock pot, the probe would be near the leaves. The crock pot is plugged into the heat plug and nothing in the cool plug unless you have a need for a cooling device like a fan/extract/fridge. Set the temp, tolerance and the delay and you're off. The crock pot will turn on to reach the set temp and when it does, turn itself off. Eventually the temp drops below the set point, the SCT-1000 waits for your specified time, and applies power to the heat plug and turns on the crock pot again.
