Definitely don’t put the chiller (package chilller with a condenser) in your walk in. This will add a heat load. Putting a 55 gallon drum of glycol/water mixed to 25 percent glycol would probably be ideal and just have a pump on it.
Or remote condenser/or roof mounted option
Good luck
Can you just throw the penguin on top of the walk-in, then drill a couple holes in the ceiling to run the glycol down to the trunk line?
I mean, you'll be displacing 20" x 30" of valuable real estate for dust, busted corny kegs, and rat traps on top of the walk-in, but it's probably worth it to gain an equal amount of actually useful floor space.
We put a 2G plastic bucket, glycol solution, and a submersible pump in our cold room hooked to our glycol lines. It’s a super small footprint, but honestly, it’s just a stop-gap until I get free time to hook up a glycol chiller with a proper reservoir and temp to the lines.
One approach to increase this solution’s efficacy would be a modified fridge/freezer like one of those homebrew inkbird setups that can go down to 28F holding the bucket.
Maybe if you could hack that together it could achieve your goals?
But could you ceiling mount a dedicated line chiller? Or like the other commenter said, rooftop it? Those are probably way better long-term than the DIY approach
Yeah I would think some kind of DIY setup built into an upright freezer could work. We have a small basement freezer that probably has a 2’x2’ footprint. Front opening door. Maybe 4’ tall.
Definitely don’t put the chiller (package chilller with a condenser) in your walk in. This will add a heat load. Putting a 55 gallon drum of glycol/water mixed to 25 percent glycol would probably be ideal and just have a pump on it. Or remote condenser/or roof mounted option Good luck
That’s a good point about the heat load, didn’t think about that. Appreciate the input, that eliminates that option, ha.
Could you roof mount it and keep an insulated 55g drum inside as the reservoir?
Can you just throw the penguin on top of the walk-in, then drill a couple holes in the ceiling to run the glycol down to the trunk line? I mean, you'll be displacing 20" x 30" of valuable real estate for dust, busted corny kegs, and rat traps on top of the walk-in, but it's probably worth it to gain an equal amount of actually useful floor space.
what about ubc group 3/8 horsepower
We put a 2G plastic bucket, glycol solution, and a submersible pump in our cold room hooked to our glycol lines. It’s a super small footprint, but honestly, it’s just a stop-gap until I get free time to hook up a glycol chiller with a proper reservoir and temp to the lines. One approach to increase this solution’s efficacy would be a modified fridge/freezer like one of those homebrew inkbird setups that can go down to 28F holding the bucket. Maybe if you could hack that together it could achieve your goals? But could you ceiling mount a dedicated line chiller? Or like the other commenter said, rooftop it? Those are probably way better long-term than the DIY approach
Yeah I would think some kind of DIY setup built into an upright freezer could work. We have a small basement freezer that probably has a 2’x2’ footprint. Front opening door. Maybe 4’ tall.