{"id":3272,"date":"2011-03-03T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2011-03-03T00:33:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T05:33:29","slug":"temperature-control-fitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/temperature-control-fitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature Control Fitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5942-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5942-scaled.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0 title=\"Inside the chest freezer showing the temperature control and all wiring in place.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The temperature control for the kegged beer cooler fitted and it seems to work. It started, cooled the unit until the appropriate temperature was reached, then turned itself off. Now I just have to run the gas lines and see how it goes with actually cooling beer. This will require a little bit more hardware, although I&#8217;ll probably only fit it out for two kegs for the time being, as that&#8217;s how many I have. It&#8217;s too bad that my current kegs are also almost empty, as I won&#8217;t be able to run it fully loaded. I guess it&#8217;ll be time to brew more soon.<\/p>\n<p>I also need to consider monitoring temperature in the unit or attaching the probe to a specific keg. I think that in the unit will be sufficient, but for the first couple weeks I&#8217;ll double-check this by occasionally checking the temperature of a keg itself.<\/p>\n<p>New photos from tonight&#8217;s work are can be found on this page <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I know those screws are too long, but they are what I had laying available. Oh well, they neither interfere with anything nor will they be seen once the unit is closed up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temperature control for the kegged beer cooler fitted and it seems to work. It started, cooled the unit until the appropriate temperature was reached, then turned itself off. Now I just have to run the gas lines and see how it goes with actually cooling beer. This will require a little bit more hardware,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,6,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-beer","category-electronics","category-food","category-making-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}