Wiring Love controller to chest freezer

[Henway]

I've heard many times you can kill your compressor with too much cycling. I "think" I killed mine because of it. I've been told to do at least a +/-2F set point. I have my Ranco probe in a 6" thermowell inside the fermenter, so that limits it. In my serving chest I have the probe directly in a 1.5L bottle of water with a tiny bit of bleach.

At least now during winter I can use the fridge as a fermentation area and have the Ranco on the brew blanket to +/- 1F set point.

And there was an article in one of the most recent BYOs about using the Love to directly control the thermostat of the fridge. Doing this lets you keep the light working, and he also wired in an outlet, so he could run his stir bar in the fridge without running more wires through the door gasket. I think it's cool, but am not sure it's worth taking the fridge apart to save having an extension cord and the Ranco probe wire going through and slightly displacing the door gasket...

[Stewbacca]

Its working just fine now.... for some reason the first time i wired it up the compressor was cycling on/off every few seconds, I think i had a stray wire creating a short somewhere.. Its working perfectly now though.. I like using the love to control the temp because it just looks so much cleaner when installed, looking at the johnson controller hanging off the back with the extra copper coil for the probe was making me crazy..

[Mylo]

Its working .... for .... the first time .... cycling on/off every few seconds .... creating a short ... I like using .... much cleaner .... johnson .... hanging off the back with the extra .... probe ....

Thanks for the revealing the details of your three way, subliminally....


Mylo

[rhino777]

Ok if you're going to reach that much we might as well just edit the whole thing:

Its working .... for .... the first time .... cycling on/off every few seconds .... creating a short ... I like using .... much cleaner .... johnson .... hanging off the back with the extra .... probe ....

I <3 COCK!


Mylo

[Stewbacca]

JP sent you a pm didnt he Mylo.... I told him to never say anything.... Just dont tell Justin... he might get jealous..

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

Ok if you're going to reach that much we might as well just edit the whole thing:

Its working .... for .... the first time .... cycling on/off every few seconds .... creating a short ... I like using .... much cleaner .... johnson .... hanging off the back with the extra .... probe ....

I <3 COCK!


Mylo