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Kentish Mike said:
I've done the same as you, and got a 60W 1ft tube heater in my fermentation fridge. First brew with it has been successful - a best bitter fermenting at a steady 18 C. I was also hoping to get it up into the 30s to do kveik. I wonder if there is any way to override the cut-out... (or is this just asking to burn down the garage...?)
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Don't know how you are measuring/controlling temp but you could stick a temp probe on the body of the tube and implement your own cutout. The silver DS18B20s I use work up to 120c which gives you another 30c.

With no thermal cutout I imagine they might get a bit toasty.

(There's no thermal cutout on a 40w bulb wink...)
 
I've had brews constant mid to high 20s with a tube heater according to the temp probe which was placed behind a chunk of HD foam taped to the fv.
I put the fv in the fridge at 25c plus and set the inkbird to control at about 25c. I've done only a couple at these temps,one a kviek and a wheat which I wanted to see what happened. During peak fermentation when it's generating heat the inky was up to 28.
 
Clint said:
I've had brews constant mid to high 20s with a tube heater according to the temp probe which was placed behind a chunk of HD foam taped to the fv.
I put the fv in the fridge at 25c plus and set the inkbird to control at about 25c. I've done only a couple at these temps,one a kviek and a wheat which I wanted to see what happened. During peak fermentation when it's generating heat the inky was up to 28.
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Maybe its better at conducting heat.
 
Twostage said:
Maybe its better at conducting heat.
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With a given conduction coefficient, from fv to sensor. Decreasing heat conducton from sensor location to surroundings, using HD foam etc, will improve sensor reading accuracy.
 

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