- Jan 13, 2022
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I'm working on putting together a curing chamber along the lines of the one Eric (Two Guys and a Cooler) describes in his video. I know what I'm going to do about temperature and humidity but I'm not sure about airflow. I am using a beer cooler and the internal fan seems like it produces too much airflow using the hanging butcher twine test. So I took the fan out and had a look at it. It shouldn't be a problem getting a 'milder' fan. But the existing fan is powered by a 2-wire connector and I can find milder fans that use a 2-wire connector, so it would be easiest to buy one of those and just plug it in rather than running another power wire through the door gasket to a USB or AC fan.
But here's my issue/question. If I use the 2 wire connector the fan will cycle on and off as the inkbird temperature controller cycles the power for the compressor on and off. That would make the air flow intermittent as the fan cycles on and off. I've had the cooler under the control of the temperature controller for a while for testing purposes and it does cycle on and off pretty often, and I can probably increase the frequency by tightening up the temperature range. So my question is, (yay, he finally got to it, LOL) is whether that intermittent airflow will be sufficient for my purpose? And should I tighten the temperature range to make the cycling more frequent?
As always, thanks for any help you can offer.
Rich
But here's my issue/question. If I use the 2 wire connector the fan will cycle on and off as the inkbird temperature controller cycles the power for the compressor on and off. That would make the air flow intermittent as the fan cycles on and off. I've had the cooler under the control of the temperature controller for a while for testing purposes and it does cycle on and off pretty often, and I can probably increase the frequency by tightening up the temperature range. So my question is, (yay, he finally got to it, LOL) is whether that intermittent airflow will be sufficient for my purpose? And should I tighten the temperature range to make the cycling more frequent?
As always, thanks for any help you can offer.
Rich