decent heating belt for a plastic conical

[Cedaronics]

Just back from holiday tonight, so checking stuff on forums.

I can do heat trace at 10w per metre if anyone's interested. I can terminate it ready for use, but you would need to find your own way of fixing it to demi-john etc.

Commercial brew belts have a slot through which you feed the trace - so you'd need some method for that.

Primarily, however, this heat trace is fixed with cable ties or aluminium tape for frost protection.

Price wise, you'd be looking at around £9 per metre, terminated and with one metre flex and 13A plug. P+P extra, of course.

This is self regulating stuff, not the constant wattage version which is not allowed to cross itself (it burns out).

Tim

 

[Kev888]

I like the idea of the heater being either low watt-density or being self-regulating or ideally both; my plastic conical (that i got from tanks direct but which looks suspiciously like a marked-up version of those mentioned above from tanks UK) is only rated to 55c. The thermal mass of the wort would disperse the heat too, but it all helps.

Cheers
kev

 

[steve963]

just spoke to the guy from http://www.tanksuk.co.uk/ seems nice, told him his site is on here, said he might join up as wants to brew himself!

£80 for the 120l and he said about 15 postage to cheshire

so want one :twisted: , sick of cleaning 3 23l FV`s

could do with a 90L one really, as the 60`s just a bit small

 

[Aleman]

These were the Silicone Heater Mats I was talking about

 

[adomant]

Just back from holiday tonight, so checking stuff on forums.

I can do heat trace at 10w per metre if anyone's interested.

I would be interested in that, currently I have a 60 litre HDPE conical which is quite thick so I have an aquarium heater on the inside. Could I replace that with with some coils of pipe around the outside? The diameter is 1.25meters, so would 5 meters produce enough heat to keep it all at 25C in the winter when controlled by an STC-1000 ? I was thinking of just resting the coil on the stand at the top of the cone and wrapping with armaflex or something. Higher up the fermenter I have a 5 meter copper coil attached to a chiller, would the condensation droppping from this be a problem ?

thanks in advance...