Trace heating for fermenting vessels and demijohns

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Anyone any experience of this?
help gratefully accepted.
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[Aleman]

I use a waterbath for my small 25L batches as I can't put the probe into the Plastic fermenters . . . Well I can I just don't want to. :lol: Then a small aquarium heater in the water batch does a good job of keeping the temperature where I want it . . . I do drop a stainless cooling coil in them during the summer though.

I would not use any form of direct heating that was not controlled by a thermostat though . . . even if the instructions do say that you don't need one as the heating is very gentle :twisted:

 

[smokin]

used to work for a company that supplied trace heating for process/chemical/water purposes (B****C) - wasnt my department as such but i could probably resurface the brain cells that dealt with it!! - it wasnt cheap - even the domestic range we sold to keep water pipes up to temp etc - the self regulating stuff was good s**t though - they used to supply it to keep airbus wing controls from freezing up - it had to be certified to be up to the job (tbh it was the same stuff as the general industrial stuff but you got a 80 page certificate and paid 3x the price!!!!)

atb

chris

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