fury_tea
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I recently installed a thermowell in the top of my 25L fermenter. I've currently got a Märzen sat in my ferm fridge at around 13c. At first I had the probe for the ITC 308 sat in the thermowell, but when I pushed the probe down inside the thermowell last night it read 0.3c lower. I guessed this is probably because there's no solid connection and from air insulating the probe, so I looked for something to make a connection between the thermowell and the probe, the closest thing to me was some alcohol hand gel. After a liberal squeeze into the thermowell and jamming it down with a length of dowel, I pushed the probe in.
That was last night, now when I've had a look this morning the ITC 308 is cycling between a 0.4c range every 10 seconds. 12.8, 12.9, 13... 12.9 12.8, 12.7... etc etc.
I've changed the compressor delay setting to 3 minutes and my high and low temps are 0.5c +/- just in case it tries to cycle on and off over the fridge on/off setting.
Anyone encountered anything at all similar? Should I just leave it alone now (arguably what I should've done in the first place - I've since read oil is a good conductor for the probe)? Or do you think I should get the probe out and go back to taping it to the side for the time being until I can wash the themowell out?
Cheers
That was last night, now when I've had a look this morning the ITC 308 is cycling between a 0.4c range every 10 seconds. 12.8, 12.9, 13... 12.9 12.8, 12.7... etc etc.
I've changed the compressor delay setting to 3 minutes and my high and low temps are 0.5c +/- just in case it tries to cycle on and off over the fridge on/off setting.
Anyone encountered anything at all similar? Should I just leave it alone now (arguably what I should've done in the first place - I've since read oil is a good conductor for the probe)? Or do you think I should get the probe out and go back to taping it to the side for the time being until I can wash the themowell out?
Cheers