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    Anybody ever do a 3-door commercial fridge build?

    Did you get the PID from them or analog controller?
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    Anybody ever do a 3-door commercial fridge build?

    What do you have for a controller and element?
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    Dryer Element

    I got screen on my chimney to keep birds and bugs out. Does that count as a lint catcher?
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    Dryer Element

    Mine is powered by dryer elements. Has a fan blowing across the element the whole time it's powered on. My setup is the same thing sausagemaker uses on their cookers. I don't have a ton of hours on it yet but the last 5 weekends I've done over 100lbs of hams and bacons per run. The way I'm...
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    Anybody ever do a 3-door commercial fridge build?

    You can take a hack saw blade and cut it to thickness. I had to do that to insulate my doors. Worked great
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    Anybody ever do a 3-door commercial fridge build?

    10 gauge wire. I run mine into a knife switch panel box with 30am fuses then to the element box and controller box. The way mine is setup it takes about 25ft if wire pet side. You will also need smaller gauge wire to power the PID and SSR. If you want I could get you some pics of how I set...
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    Anybody ever do a 3-door commercial fridge build?

    So far it works great. With the fan running the whole time it makes for good circulation. Only thing I don't like is it takes a long time to get it up to temp for hot cooks. Make sure you get good high temp wire. I used high temp appliance wire at first and the coating melted off, ground...
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    Anybody ever do a 3-door commercial fridge build?

    Yeah that's 3/4x1 1/4 silicone gasket. Got that from greggindustries. Great guys to deal. Expensive but worth it. Don't use furnace rope to seal your doors. Possible to contaminate food. My setup has a fan that blows the whole time the cooker is going. It blows across the heating element...
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    First full run

    Go big or go home right?
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    First full run

    After a little test and tune it was time for a full run. 245lbs of ham and bacon. Running good so far.
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    Anybody ever do a 3-door commercial fridge build?

    This is the double door unit I built. It's split in the middle. 3in of rock wool insulation, 6in in the dividing wall, 5000 watt on each side, pid ssr and heat sink for each element. So far it has worked good. Has 4 racks. They are all within 5degrees of the set temp. The drip pan doubles...
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    Commercial fridge build

    Almost done. Fired up one side yesterday. Gotta plumb the chimneys through the wall tomorrow and and wire up the left side
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    Custom smoker build

    Not sure where you guys live but where I am a 5x10 sheet of 14gauge is $90
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    Custom smoker build

    This is what I'm in the process of building now. Should be able to give it a test run this weekend.
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    Custom smoker build

    There's some guys on here that have way more knowledge than I do on building a cooker. I'm in the process of building one myself. You will definitely want to insulate it. It will be a lot more efficient. Once it gets up to temp it will stay there longer. You don't want to use ridged...
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    Custom smoker build

    For the amount of money you would have invested why not get a MES 40?
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    Commercial fridge build

    Doors and grates are done. Starting the smoke box next
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    Commercial fridge build

    Getting closer. Still have to insulate and line the doors, wire it up and build some racks.
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    Commercial fridge build

    What did you use for elements? This one is about 20cuft per side. The 5k elements might be a little big but I figured better to big than to small. I should get a lot of use out of this. Other than ham and bacon I have a wedding to cook for this summer and come deer season I should get...
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    Commercial fridge build

    Me too. I've put a ton of money in this thing in a very short period. Would have been nice to have more notice that I had to start building. My buddies smoke guy said he wanted out so I need this thing done ASAP. On the positive side I don't think I could buy one this size for the money I'll...
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