Bringing this topic back to life as I'm having problems with my chiller....again!
The chiller is a bit over enthusiastic when it comes to maintaining it's ice bath
You can see from the pictures above that the ice block extends to include the beer lines, but what you can't see is that the ice is encroaching on the python pump. I've already bent the water return pipe away from the ice block once, as the return was freezing up when the python wasn't driving coolant to the product coil in my fv. Today I took the chiller apart and found the water return pipe about 1" inside the ice block.
To get round this, I have bypassed the cold water return as you can see from the bottom photo above.
Does anyone know how to alter the thermostat (top right pic) or are they factory pre set and non adjustable?